Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1885 — The Brazilian Method. [ARTICLE]

The Brazilian Method.

The differentiation of development asserts itself even in devouring oranges. In the region of the Rio Amazonas it is one way, and in the region of the Rio Query it *is another. Here the eater begins by transfixing with a fork the vegetable globe in the neighborhood of the south pole. Then with a sharp case-knife (which is not a cheese-knife, as might be inferred by the etymologist) he makes through the rind a circular cut which may be likened to the antartic circle. Next he slices off the whole of the arctic zone. Then, cutting from north to south, he slices off the rind in meridians from one polar circle to the other. The rind thus li eving been removed, and the luscious sphere being still transfixed and held in his left hand before him, the eater, with the knife in the right, slices off the tropical regions and puts the pieces in his, mouth on the fiat side or pierced with the point of the cutting instrument. In which operation a sixth of the substance of the fruit is wasted in removing the rind, and another sixth in c sting away the core; but with the best of oranges by retail at less than 1 cent apiece, no matter.— Cor. Pittsburgh Telegraph.

One of the differences between the system commonly followed of shipping cattle alive and that of shipping dressed beef to market is thus shown by the Northwest: “The beeves are driven from neighboring ranges to the slaughtering establishments on the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and their carcasses, when packed in the re-frigerator-cars, are in the best possible condition to serve as healthful food. A steak from a Montana steer, eaten where the animal built up his juioy fiber from the bunch-grass of the ranges, is altogether another thing from a steak from the same sort of steer after he has been tormented by a journey of 2,000 miles.” Mb. Pepper, a gentleman well-known in the Irish sporting world, asked Lord Norbury to suggest a name for a veryfine hunter of his. Lord Norbury, himself a pood sportsman, who knew that Mr. Pepper bad a fall or two, advised him to oall the horse “Peppercastor "