Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1888 — What They Eat in Africa. [ARTICLE]

What They Eat in Africa.

An African correspondent of Food and. Health, speaking of the habits of 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 you have a good supply of Dame Nature’s sauce, hunger, on hand. I also found the coney cor rock rabbit a fair dish, although too mock like a large rat to look pleasant on the table. The natives of the country are not, m a rule, great meat eaters, living generally on oorn (called there, mealies,) milk, pumpkins, and a sort of sugar cane, now and then going in for a feast of meat. I have often considered whether te this way of living may be ascribed the really wonderful maimer in which they recover from wounds. In the sjulu wax I saw four persons wounded in the legs with bullets, one ol them especially having received a bullef iust below the knee, smashing all the bones, and leaving a hole that you could see 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 cold water from time to time. When I last saw them all but the worst could walk alone, and his wound looked healthy, the bone having grown together, and knitted quite strongly. No white man could have lived without an operation. On the qjjpr hand, these men soon succumb k amem or disease.

We take pleasure in calling the attention of our readers to the following extract from a letter to the Eldredge Manufacturing Co., Chicago, written by an English dealer in Sewing Machines: Gents: I have telegraphed you this day to send on as quickl, as possible 50JNo. 2 tables and covers. I find I shall be out of these much sooner than the other styles. Tae stands and heads you can send at earliest convenience.

I am very much pleased to that these last hundred machines are highly satisfactory. For finish, smoothness and easy running, 1 really believe they are unequalled by any o+her Sewing Machine selling in this country. The machines require less predelivery than any other machines I have handled during the whole course of my experience extending over 20 years. Tours Truiy,

THOS. RHODES.

Mrs. J. W. McEwen is agent for these machines in this county.— Call and see them bofore purchasing elseyvliere.

"I am choost as full ash a bag of flour, ” remarks dan inebriate to a sober friend. “There is a difference between you and a sack of flour, however.” • Whas ish difference ?” “When a sack is full it can stand up, but when yon are lull you can’t even lie down on the ground without holding on ”--Texas Byftmgs.

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And now comes a chemist and explodes the theory that unbolted flour is the most nutritious, by stating that experiments show that it is harder to digest. The most sensible plan to follow is to eat what experience lias proved wrrees with vou.