Dr M. L. Holbrook, a well-known writer on hygiene, paid, in a parlour lecture, a tribute to what may be called the tonic or medical properties of fruits. We copy a paragraph of personal experience : —Ono or two pounds of fresh, ripe fruit daily eaten by most persons would make doctors’ visits less frequent. There seems to be a cleansing action to good acid fruit, and especially to the apple and grape. Children and the young should be allowed all they wish. In Delaware, doctors sometimes send certain patients into the peach orchards, and tell them to eat all they want. Wilson, the ornithologist, suffered with a chronic malaria which his medical adviser could not cure, and he cured himself by eating wild strawberries. I onoe cured myself of malaria by going into a vineyard and eating grapes every day for a week, all I wanted, several pounds a day." An engineer gives a simple way of breaking a mass of iron. In a mass 2ft square and 4ft long he bored a perpendicular hole lin in diameter, aud between 3in and 4in deep. This he filled with water and closed with an accurately fitting iron bolt. One heavy blow on this bolt broke the mass into two pieoes,
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 879, 4 January 1889, Page 22
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