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SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY BULLETIN.
HONOLULU, II. I., MONDAY, MAY 14, 1883.
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FOOD MAKES THE MAN
Speaking roughly, about three
fourths, by weight, of the body of
man is constituted by the fluid lie
coirsumcs, and the remaining fourth
by the solid material he appropriates.
It is, thcicforc, no figure of speech
to say that food makes the man. We
might even put the case in a stronger
light, and affirm that man is bis food.
It is strictly and literally true that
"a man who drinks beer thinks beer."
Wc make this concession to the tee
totallers, and will add that good
sound beer is by no means a bad
thought factor, whatever may be the
intellectual value of the commodity
commonly sold and consumed under
that name! It cannot obviously be
a matter of indifference what a man
cats and drinks. He is, in fact,
choosing his nuimal and moral char
acter When he selects his food. It
is impossible for him to change his
inherited natme, simply because
modifications of development occupy
more than an individual life, but he
can help to make the particular
slock to which he belongs more or
less beery or fleshy or watery, and so
on, by the way he feeds. "Wc know
the effect the feeding of animals has
on their temper and very natures;
how the dog fed on raw meat anil
chauied.up so that he cannot woik off
the superfluous iiitrogenised mateiial
by exercise becomes a savage beast,
while the same creature fed on bread
and milk would be as tame a lamb.
The same law of results is applicable
to man, and every living organism is
propagated " in its kind" with a
physical and mental likeness. This
is the underlying piinciplc of develop
ment. Happily the truth is beginning,
though slowly and imperfectly, to
find a recognition it has long been
denied. It is possible that in the
natural desire to secure the best and
purest supplies of food and drink for
man we are pushiug matters a little
too extreme and becoming ridicul
ous. Utopia is a long way off, and
i' Hygeia" has not yet been built. It
, is, however, desirable that wc-shouid
aim high and make the teachings of
physiological science the precepts of
our daily life and conduct. "Wo may
not be able to reach our ideal, but
progress will bo made by striving to
make its attainment an object.
" What to cat, diink and avoid," is
a rational proposition ; and if some
of us aie becoming a little unreasona
ble iu the attempt to solve it at least
wc are on the right road, and ought
to be encouraged rather than abashed
by the not unkindly criticism our
endeavors arc calling forth.-Zcmccf.
Poet " But, my dear sir, it is
now four years bincc you accepted
my epic and no steps have yet been
taken to publish it." Publisher
'Don't bo in n hurry, young man.
, Homer had watt more than 0000
ycarw before ho got into print and
you will Imrdly claim that your poem
m wuiimi."
DECAYING WOOD & MALARIA.
In these days of sanitary lcfornis,
wc arc constantly on the look out for
luiking dangers to life; and the
healthy state of our largo "cities,
when compared with those of other
countries, is a proof that our pre
cautions meet with abundant reward.
Rookeries of tumble-down dwellings
arc still not unknown among us ; but
these arc gradually giving way to
large colonics of bricks and mortar,
where families arc lodged in flats,
enjoying every improvement that sa
nitary science can suggest. The
different conditions under which
people live in other countries can be
instanced by reference to San Fran
cisco, whcic many, if not most of
the houses arc built on wooden foun
dations. So much unaccountable
disease was lately experienced there,
that the doctors began to suspect the
houses of harboring some unlooked
for nucleus of malaria. As a result
of their investigations, they found
that the woodwork touching the soil
favored in its gradual decay a fun
goid growth, which gave lodging to
a mass of living organisms. These,
it seems, die down when the wood is
no longer able to support them, and
the decaying mass, with its unhealthy
emauatioii3, forms a source of dis
ease. Chambers' Journal.
SULPHUROUS ACID.
The value of as a preventive and
curative in zymotic diseases and in
ailments of the throat, air-passages
and lungs, as well as in the skin
diseases, is appreciated by many,
and in any new fact bearing on the
question should be welcome. Some
information comes from Egypt. M.
d' Abbadic has observed thac the
elephant-hunters who frequent the
miasmatic districts of the Soudan
protect themselves from fever by the
daily use of a fumigation with
sulphur. He has also found that
near the sulphur mines there is a ie
markable absence of iniasmaticfcvets.
It lias been suggested that the coal
smoke of London may have a sani
tary value rendering the city the
most healthy of the capitals of the
world. Tfic atmosphere of the
under-ground railway is not by any
means pleasant, but there is no
evidence" of its having any deleter
ious iulluence on health. There are
two handy ways of fumigating by
sulphurous ncid. The first is to
pour strong sulphuric acid on sugar.
The acid chars the sugar, giving up
an atom of oxygen, and escaping
' into the room as gaseous sulphurous
acid, or, as it is now more generally
called, sulphurous anhydride. The
other way is simply by binning
brimstone. The best way to do is
to make a brick or old flat-iron hot
enough to iutlnmc the sulphur pro
jected upon it. Theie is no need to
inuko the fumes unpleasantly strong.
Melbourne Icader.
A pair of blipper the orange and
baiiaim skins, J'uci,
UNSINKABLE SHIPS.
Uusinkablc ships, constructed from
designs by Captain R. B. Forbes, of
Boston, will, according to him, in a
few years cany all the first class
goods and first class passengers for
which, wo suppose, first class rates
arc to bo charged between Europe
and the United States. He proposes
these ships to bo built of steel and to
be divided into at least ten compart
ments, exclusive of those occupied
by machinery and fuel ; every com
partment to have the means of pump
ing in air and pumping out water.
Such a ship, he thinks, could not
very well sink, but if,, ns an addi
tional sccuiity, all the freight were
secured in water-tight packages, the
vessel would float even if every one
of the compartments had a fractutc
in it. It is more than probable that
all heavy and coarse merchandise,
such ns metals, will be excluded from
the fist mall and passenger steamers.
Captain Forbes states that it will only
bo necessary to sec that the compart
ments of the two lower decks arc
without defect, and to introduce a
complete system of pumps for air
and water, and thus adopt the old
Chinese method of packing silks and
teas, using cither casks or metallic
coverings so far as practicable, lhe
hazards of an ocean voyage, he says,
will be reduced" to a minimum ; but
no safety can be guarautcd whore
steamers are run ashore, as too often
happens. Iron.
England cannot be fairly said to
be any longer a corn-growing coun
try; accidentally, crops may come
up and be got in without spoil
ing. Wc learn that at Kinnerley, a
place in Shropshire, the harvest was
finished on Dec. 1 by canying a
piece of barley; while a sad tale
comes from Essex of agricultural
distress, and it is probable that in
the low-lying country, a kind of
great dismal swamp between the
Thames and the German Ocean, the
effect of a succession of bad seasons
is felt with unusual acutcnesss. Land
is in many coses going out of culti
vation, and farms will nbt bo taken
even on the terms of having them
rent free and paying the taxes. What
is more distressing still is, the
present autumn has been so wet that
there will no wheat sown till spring.
A clcrgyman.at Cambridge preach
ed a sermon which one of his audi
tors commended. "Yes," said the
gentleman to whom it was mention
ed, "it was a good sermon, but lie
stole it." This was told to the
preacher, ne resented it and called
the gentleman to retract what he had
suid.. "I am not," replied the ag
gressor, "vcrj' apt to retract my
words, but in this instance I will. I
said you had stolen the sermon. I
find I was wrong; for on returning
home and referring to the book
Yheuuo,l thought it was taken, I
found it there." Emhunfe.
SULPHUR FUMES & MALARIA.
At the Paris Academy lately some
curious and interesting notes lcla
tbe to sulphur funics as a preventive
of malaria were read by M. d' Abba
die. He stated that some elephant
hunters from plateaux with compara
tively cool climate can to into the
hottest and most deleterious Ethio
pian regions without being attacked
by fever, and that they attiibute
their safety to the daily practice of
fumigating their naked bodies with
sulphur. He also quoted cases wheie
sulphur mines were free from dis
ease, whilst the inhabitants of vill
ages near at hand were constantly
attacked by fever. It has always
appeared to us that sulphur as a
curative agent has been too much
neglected in our own country.
Chambers' Journal.
Some interesting data about the
bombardment of Alexandria were
recently given by Captaiu Walford,
Royal Navy, in a lecture delivered
in London. The expenditure of
ammunition was something out of
all proportion to the damage done or
the losses of life sustained. The
British ships fired 1731 rounds, of
heavy shells, of which the Inflexible
is credited with 88. From smarter"
guns 11C7 solid shots were fired,
while the aggregate number of bul
lets from Mnrtini-IIcnry rifles,
Nordcnfeld and Gatling guns was
33, 193. the amount of powder ex
ploded was 1,318,5G5 pounds, of
which the Inflxible fired 30,900
pounds. The losses of the Egyptians
have been variously estimated at
from 289 to 500 men, while the
Britisli loss was five killed and 28
wounded. Only 17 per cent of the
shots struck1 the fortifications, and
the 77 heavy guns carried by the
fleet fired on an average only 22
shots each during the entire bom
bardment.
"Your father must be worth nt
least a million, and you would ena
ble me to go through life in a bt3'le I
could never hope for without you.
I do not love you, it is true, but
one cannot expect everything. So
let us marry. If your father fails I
can crawl out of it somehow.' She
"Very well! You will never a
mouut to anything, but you are good
enough as far as you go. I have
trifled with so many mcu that most
of them hate jnc, and I may not get
a better offer. If I do I can break
the engagement."
" Yes," said the fond mother, " I
have such a dread of the ocean that
I can't bear to think of my son's
going to sea, and to prevent it I shall
enter him at the Naval Academy at
Annapolis."
A man who sent us a poem begin
ning, "When twilight dews are falling
fast upon the rosy lea," lias since
married Rosa Lee, and now tho
weekly dues are falling faster upon
him.
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