A VEGETARIAN ENQUIRY AND WHAT IT LED TO.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 7265, 13 October 1891, Page 4

A VEGETARIAN ENQUIRY AND WHAT IT LED TO.

The London vegetarians have been trying ' to draw' tome of the leading member! of the Hygienic Congress by submitting to them a series of questions, with the intention of committing them to such opiniona as that flash-food is neither necessary nor the most fitting for man ; that it io responsible for many disorders j that many disheB mean many diseases; and that more pecple die from over-eating than from over-drinking. Some of the replies are in'ereBtng. Surgeon-General Cornish expresses a very general opinion that most people eat more flesh-meat thon is necessary, and, though he ie not a vegetarian, he thinks good is being done in teaching the public the value of vegetables and fruit p. Professor Wynter Blyth bel eves that tuberculosis is sometimes caused by the milk of tuberculous cows, and occasionally by meat. Another medical officer of health, Mr T. C. Bailey, pleads for ' vegetarianism in eobsod, especially in bot weather, bat gocd beef and mutton in winter cannot be surpassed.' Dr Norman Kerr declines to admit that all vegetarians are mild and gentle, and, on the other band he haa known butcbrrB who were the moot amiable and kind hearted of men. Finally, Sir Dyce Duckworth says: 'Vegetarianism is no law for the dietary of mao, who ia a m xed feeder. I believe in the value of animal food and of alcoholic drinks for the beBt interests of man. Ti e abuBO or mituse of either li another matter.'

The proprietress of some omnibuses Id London vras sentenced to two montbb* imprisonment with hard labor for cruelty in allowing horses (o be worked in an unfit condition. A London contractor charged with a like offence receded a similar sentence, •gainst which be w<ll appeal. When a train arrived at Bedford a young lady was found alone in ono of the carried, shot in the bieaat, She ■aid the injury had been ioflioted bv a young man, who left (he carriage at Leicester. A rerolver was subsequently found on (he line, and it was proved that a military officer, with whom she was acquainted, trayelled with her from L»edi ti Sheffield. When quitting the train be placed her Id charge of the guard. The police think the injury must have been selfInflicted. Wby does a j.>«e by the Autoorat of tha EteakfusMablo tesemble the clothaa made in the days gone by? — It's Holmei'-pun.