Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1887 — How to Know Good Meat. [ARTICLE]

How to Know Good Meat.

Dr. Letheby lays down the following simple rules for the guidauce of those in search of good meat: It is neither of a pale pink nor of a deep purple tint. It has a marked appearance from the ramification of little veins of fat among the muscles. It should be firm and elastic to the touch. Bad meat is wet, scxldeii and flabby, with the fat looking like jelly or wet parchment. It should have little or no odor, and the odor should not he disagreeable. Diseased meat has a sickly, cadaverous smell, and sometimes a smell of physic. This is discoverable if the meat is chopped and drenched with warm water. It should not shrink or waste much in cooking. —He aid,of Htalth. The most severe cough can at once be removed by R‘d Star Cough Cure. “Give it to your children by all means,” says Prof. Williams, ex-State Chemist of Delaware, who found it wonderfully efficacious. Price, only twenty-five cents a bot.le. They hava a curious way of settling matrimonial disputes in Nopal, India. On a plain is a standard. When a wife wants a divorce from her husband she is given a fair start and has to run across the plain. Her better half chases her with a kookree. If the woman reaches the standard first she obtains a dissolution of her marriage. If she doesn’t get to the post at all it is because her husband has caught her and cut her dowu. We are in blissful ignorance of the ordeal through which a husband who wishes to get rid of his wife has to pass. But we may be sure it is not such a fearful one as that cited above.— N< w York Tribune, The way for an orator to avoid making heavy speeches is to weigh his words well before speaking.