Blood as a Food. MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2811, 26 August 1908, Page 66

Blood as a Food.

MULTUM IN PARVO.

TO 'THE EDITOS. Sib,— "Terror" and the Rev. Mr Cho dbwski, in. your issue of August IZ, gave us valuable information about fowls, their focd, etc.- The Rev. Mr Ohodowski 6aye: "I have shown the passage ra my lecture and also the abstract -report of it to several of the leading medical gentleman in tihis ,-• city whose names are « guarantee for scientific accuracy, and I am confirmed in my statement that the Hebrew science is 6h'll the science of to-day." The idea of parasitical and infectious maladies of which we now hear so mucih occupied also } tho mind of Moses. He indicates with I groat wisdom the animals to be used as 1 feed, excluding those liable to parasites, such a3 swine, rabbits, and hare«. _ He prescribes Ihe thorough bleeding of animals to be eaten and the burning of the fat. ■ It has been established that it is precisely thij blood" and the fat that are most liableto retain tiarasitic germs and carrytioii. The Talmud, moreover, directs that the liver, hinge, and spleen .ehall be-care-t ful!v scrutinised. Tihese organs are esper cially Habfe to disease. _ < - In several respects Mosaic law is declared - to have anticipated modern science by several thousand years. Throughout the entire history of Israel the wisdom of the ancient law-givers in these respects has been remarkably shown. Tn times of pestu lence the Hebrews have suffered less fhani others. At the time of the Black Death , (1343-1350), which carried off a quaiter of the population of Europe, Hi© Jews wera afflicted 1 but little on account of their simple and wholesome living. As regards longevity and general health, they have in every age been noteworthy. At the, pro-. Vent time in the life insurance offices the life of a Jew is said to be ' worth more than that of men -of other stock. Sir Moses Monteficre died at 100, and in his great age, a * well as in so many_ otheri ways, he is onlj a type of his nation. — 1 am, etc., Mylks Campbell. Pleasant Point, Augusts 13. 'LINSEED COMPOUND' for Coughs and Colds. Of proven efficacy, i<M ' isi<mckial irritation.

— The wages of a London waitress runJ from 6s to 20s a week. , - ! — There are" now published in the United Kingdom 2440 newspapers. — The banana and. potato are almost I identical in chemical composition. - —Champagne,has 12.2 per cent, of alco&ol, and gooseberry -wine 11.8 per cent. —In England and Wales law and order is by a police force of 45,202 .men. _ - — The Jordan is the crookedest river known, winding 213 miles in a distance of 60 miles. _ — Grapes are still trodden-with the bare - feet in many of the vineyaTd6 of Spain and Italy. .'-.'. -" —Bank of England notes are issued for Bums of £5, £10, £20, £50; also for £100, JE2OO, £500, and £1000. — One Tokio merchant has exported 200,000 frog 6kins for purses in a single year. v —An eagle can live 28 days without -/food. . - - . —A Russian" does not become of age until he' is 26. — A snail student -ha 3 asoe-rt.aified that it takes the little creature 14 days to travel a mile. ■ —Special clocks which need winding up' only} once in -400 days-, a^e- now, Tnanufae- , 'turfed"in Munich..-*. „ ■ ,c : - --^-The "wrack" record' -of the Baltic' Sea - is "greater than _ that of any part of -the, ■world. "'--The- average is one a-day through■out" the year.. , , - —•It _is ofijcially -estimated that the damage by tfcd.raYages.'Oi'the codlin " 'irotiEr in the_ United States , represents £2,800,000 annually. —^To keep .& racehorse in 1 even moderate condition in England', with 'proper attendants, _costs £325 a year. —;Trarice -imports about 170 tons "of . human hair every year, and about 100 tons of it comes from China., — Frequent use of the microscope is said ■ to prevent .near-sightedness. Watchmakers are seldom afflicted with it. — The popular.Welsh resort Aberystwyth j contains the Welsh National Library, embracing' some of flic- most valuable manuscripts in existence." , —Thirty-one years-ago a woman in Glasgow bought a ticket to Canada. Th~e other day" she used" i£ the Allan Hn© making no protest about the date. — Jamaican fireflies emit such a brilliant " .glow that you can easily read at night if you.plao© half a dozen of them in an iuverted" tumbler on the table t beside you. — The'total number of boys in the "Boys' Brigades of the Uaiited' Kingdom is 55,000, " and their ag«& vary from 12 to 17. — Ten years ago there was one lunatic tD.every 314 of the population of England and "Wales; to-day the proportion is one to every 283. — Motor cycles aro now used in the Aus- , trian army for the rapid laying of field i telegraph lines. „ . I , — ThelSmperor of Japan writes 20 verse* | of poetry every day.- The French President al&o is a poet. " , — The- 6hoes worn. ,by mountaineers -when climbing the -Alps have steel soles, with «ight points 1 "projecting. "" —There are reckoned to be 160 million head of cattle-in the world. Of these Great i Britain owns 10 million. I — On- an allotment garden at Aehbourne, . Derbyshire, robins have built and reared j a nest- of young ones in the breast-pocket of a soairecrow. — When the new police court at Oseett, Yorkshire, was opened, the first prisoner, , a beggar, was sentenced, much to his aston- ■ ishmerit, to receive a "good square meal. | —No picture is hung in the Paris Louvre | 'till the artist has been dead at least 10 ' x years. , — The blood of pigeons air.d turkeys is about lOdeg higher than that of human ( beings. - ' — The' Tsaar of Russia strongly dislikes i being photographed alone, but he has no j objection to being taken in. a group% j — There is animal life at all depths of j the ocean ; but plant life, being dependent \ on light, cannot exist very far beneath the , surface. i — English climbers are much more oare- ' ful than Those of ofcher nations. German , tourists head the list in Alpine accidents, j and Swiss come next. j — Chemists tell us tihat documents writ'en in the ordinary ink of to-day will be wholly illegible 70 years hence. During the nineteenth century 16 islands disappeared, and 52 rose from the eca "through volcanic action. A light -of one candle, power ifi plainly visible at one mile, and a light of three candle power at two —At present thei^e are 3,500,000 children enrolled as members of the Band of Hope in the United Kingdom. " —:The first-class . battleship Superb, a vessel of the improved Dreadnought type. is 490 ft long, has 82ft beam, and b displacement of 18,600 tons, against the Dreadnought's -17,900. - The emoke from the bowl of a pipe js blue, because it is highly oxidised; b,ut th© smoke issuing- from one's lips is grey, -because it is then, moistened and hydrocarbonised. . Holiday-makers often damage tneir Sieaia by taking too much exercise and by eating more than usual. To keep fit, be_ „ moderate. , ' —It is interesting to note that the legal ■weight of a penny is one-third, of the % hali- ' penny one-fifth, and of the farthing- onetenth of an ounce avoirdupois. The halfpenny is lin in diameter. — Tile majority of railway companies have no fixed charges for the hire of speoial irains. The general charges are 5a per xnile, plus the ordinary fare for each passenger, according to class of vehicle hired. —In the annual report ju3t issued by " the Prison Commissioners for Scotland it is stated tihat no female has received a sentence of penal servitude during the pact yeai. This is the first time this has happened. —Mr Decimus Ererefcr, who has been appointed Chief Constable of Preston, joined the police force as a constable after a University career, and 1 did ordinary street duty foi a salary of 25s a week. — For the pa6b 14 years a brood of tomtits has been reared each spring in thej letter-bos at Uttoxefcer Workhouse. Since the parent birds first took possession of the box they have hatched 200 eggi. — A Dowlais girl has for a wager mounted in steeplejack fashion one of the new chimney stacks 200 ft high of the Dowlais Steel Works. She was accompanied by two men. She tied up her Hair on the •unimifc of the stack.

— One of the most wonderful underground -waterways in the world, which was constructed at the latter end of the eighteenth century by the Dukes of Bridg*waier, is now bsiptc vs**d for the oonv<*vanee of waste water from the Earl of Eliesmeie's collieries at W&lkden, neai Manchester. This unique canal, which i^ entirely underground, with its arms and junctions, covets over 4C miles.