Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — Feeding on One’s Self. [ARTICLE]

Feeding on One’s Self.

When the liftman fiody suffers from a lack of food it practically feeds upon itBand absoriM£*Hft, own substance as . Every ene IftoWs anii normally exhibit this ’process of feeding upon themselves under certain The humps of the camel or those of the Indian cattle visibly decrease, and may disappear altogether, if the animals are starved. A superfluous iwtosn si fat,, in other words, is made use of under the exigency of hunger. So it is with the bears * and other animals which hibernate dr sleep through the ivinfer’s cold. ThftilivV which futmnwretir es to' winter quarters in ft Ivellfavored condition, ©Ornes forth in spring le<m anti meftegr;'- fatw have- been absorbed in his nutrition, and the succeeding summer will lay the foundation of new stores of staple food to be utilized during the next winter.. With man, we repeat, the phenomena of starvation are essentially similar. In the starving man the fats of the body are the substances to disappear. The fats lose weight to the extent of 93 per cent.; next in order the blood suffers ; then the internal such as liver and spleen, suffer ; the muscles, bones, and nervous system being the last to lose weight. In due time, also, the heat of 'the body decreases tb such an extent that ultimately death in a case of starvation is really a case of death from loss of heat. When the temperatqre falls to about 30 deg. Fahrenheit death ensues. This decrease arises from the want of bodily fuel or food;'but the immediate-, cause of the fatjl ending such a case is decrease of tqjnperature; It ig likewise a curious tact tlrat • ,thp application of external warrpth is? even more effectual.inreviving animals, dying pf starvation than a supply of Jnod. . Iji exhausting .diseases in man, ih.which* the phenomena jure strikingly dike, and, < indeed, thoroughly diial ago ns to those of starvation, the siijue- facts are dbserved.—C’Aamfter#’ Journal.* r .

Henby \J’abd. of reading while traveling atrailway speed,* says H^’tfoiVl-7 J o.S7, favors both his eyes’and his brain. ’ He does not pore over a book constantly,' but satisfies himself ■with * leisurely 1 references to it. Aitej* reading not to exceed a page and a,half, he, drops the book into his lap, and rests in Reflection and window-gaz-ing for a few minutes before he resumes his reading. This process of book study is gone over with uniform exactness. When lie has enough “inwardly digested,*’ he. goes into a doze till refreshed; and bends to the book again. Workmen are now replacing with iron the vast wooden span of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore railroad bridge over the Susquehanna river at Havre dq Grace, and when this is completed the whole bridge will be of iron. The change from wood to iron has been going on for six years. The bridge is one of the greatest structures in the country. With its approaches it is a mile and a quarter long, mid the water in the channel is seventy-five feet deep. The total cost of the bridge has been $2.000.000“Malt Bitters ’* are a Blood, Brain and, Nerve Food, particularly adapted to, and warmlyV recommended by, our druggists and physicians for General Debility, Mental and Physical Exhaustion, Hysteria, Nervousness,’Sleeplessness, Emaciation and Dropsy. Homburg, ten years ago noted for its gambling, fell off in fame in consequence of the suppression of its games by the German Government. This year it has been gay, owing to the influx of wealthy and fashionable English and American visitors.