Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — What They Eat in Africa. [ARTICLE]

What They Eat in Africa.

There are. flftv-slx shops tor the sale of torse-flesh as food in Paris. ~ • Valuable Collection.—-A Reading naan won’t take SIO,OOO for his dead butterflies. The redaction in the price of some kinds of matches ia explained by the fact that the makers are no longer compelled to put 100 in a box, ns they were under the stamp act. —i The Seneca Indians, whose reser vatiou is in New York Stat , are civilized enough to have election frauds. Investigation shows that a few Indi ans sold their votes for ten and twenty cents to the victors. Miss Nellie Arthur may be a nice little girl, but just \sby the United States steamer Dispateh should be placed at her service for a pleasure excursion is not explained in the Constitution or the statutes. She is no better than any other good girl in he land, and the Government ships | were not built for her pleasure. Arthur, at $50,000 a y ear, ought to be willing to pay fox his daughter’s pleaBur« 00 t of bis own pocaet. Logansport Pharos: Having given the Journal a surfeit of Uuropean letters D P. Baldwin is now firing his eorrespondence at the Indianapolis Journal. A prominent Republican said this forenoon that Daniel, while thinking he was writing Republican doctrine, was really penning Democratic literature on the tariff que6 tion. Ho said thej“Great nncorked” ought to be corked in a great hurry. The Indianapolis Sentinel after giving a Jshort review of Garfield’s life history iron: the tow path to the presidency says: The men w,.0 are now engaged in blackening ike fame of Garfield are Republicans. When living they were on intimate terms with him—his confidants and advisers; and of .these none stood nearer than ex« Senator Stephen "W. Dorsey. Republicans are branding the name of Garfield with ineffable odium, and in doing this they are stamping upon the Re publican party marks of ignominy infinitely more detestable tkah that which Jshovah placed upon the brow of Gain. It is not necessary to inquire why th.s work of retribution is going forward. It ia easily explained: Rogues have fallen out, and while trying to get even with one another honest men ar * rejoicing, because the outlooic for their country is improved thereby. Honest Republicans are leaving a party wgic.., to succeed, has practiced frauds gs unequaied in famy. They like their country better than a party which has made such a history of abominations as Republi cans are now writing. Judgment Day is roiling on. The “high officials” are being exposed and caught. The people are massing their iudignation, and the verdict in due time will be, “The Republican party must go.” ■ . Yesterday I rode one hundred miles and was never out of sight of a clus ter of tall chimneys. Thus far I have not yet see a wheat field or corn field. The gre it need of this nation is cheap bread. In this respect she is exactly in the condition of New England, without New England’s advantages of supply. As I have quoced from Mr. Chamberlain, I am in fairness bound to give another striking remark of his: “The United States loses more by their prottctive system than we do.” That, after all, is the real question for us to discuss, for there is no doubt but that free trade is a marvdlous success iD this country. The people, here would no more go back to pro ection than we would to slavery. Rut then England can not raise her own biead, while we can, and also do our own manufacturing.

One of the chief causes of my long journey over here was to study this condition of tin- SngJish operative under the free tr de system. I have not yet seen enough of the great man ufacturing cities .o make up my mind. Thus far have not found that suffering among the poorer classes that I expected ta find. While wages are not much over half a 3 high as with us, still they are, according to Mr. Bright’s recent Birmingham anniversary speech, double what they were forty years ago, and on the increase.— Dan Baldwin in Indianapolis Journal. Mr. Baldwin was the late radical Attorney General of Indiana. He at one time had a great inclination 1 to reply to “Pink” Fishbuek’s letters, but concluded he would more fully inform himself first. He is now making a tour of Europe, with that object in vie, and the aboveisasamof what he is writing heme. President Arthur has at length get Started on his “swinging’ "feat. Edmunds is watching him with a jealous eye, and Blaine is prepared to write a particularly vicious paragraph about him In that book in case the performance excites too much favorable mention.--Atlanta Constitution.

An African correspondent of Food and Health , speaking of the habits erf the people and incidents, says : Of course hunter’s food, such as elephant foot, buffalo hump, sea cow, giraffe, and the hundreds of different kinds of deer that abound in various parts of the country are all more or less good eating, especially when yon have a good supply of Dame Nature’s sauce, hunger, on hand. I also found the coney or rock rabbit a fair dish, although too mnoh like a large rat to look pleasant on the table. The natives of uie country are not, as a rule, great meat eaters, living generally on com (called there,, mealies,) milk, pumpkins, and a sort of sugar cape, wow and then going in for a feast of meat. I have often considered whether to this way of living may be ascribed the really wonderful manner in whieh they recover from wounds. •In the Zulu war I saw four persons wounded in the legs with bullets, one oi them especially having received a ballet just below the knee, smashing all the bones, and leaving a hole that you oould sea through. The doctors said the only hope for any of them was amputation. This they refused to allow, and they would do nothing but pour odd water from time to time. Wham I last saw them all but the wont could walk alone, and his wound looked healthy, the bone sane*. srta.'i.'ss have lived without an operation. On the •ther hand, these men soon succumb to illnw difseme.