Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — What They Eat in Africa. [ARTICLE]

What They Eat in Africa.

An Afrioan corresponded of Jbotf and Health, specking of tlis habits of th« people ana incidents, sajs: C n course hunter's food, such as elephant toot, buifhlo hump, sea oow, giraffe, and the hundreds of Afferent Kinds qf deer that abound in various parts of the oountiw are all more or less good eating, especially when you have a good supply of Dame Nature's samoa, hunger, eo hand. I ako found the coney er rook rabbit a fair dish, althongh tos ■nek like a large rat to look pleasant on me table. The natives of tae oountry fSASti*£ftSit2 mesffas,) milk, pumpkins, and a sort of sugar oane, now and then going in for a laaatof meat, X have often oousidsred whether to this way of living mar be Motibed tiw really wonderful mannsr in Which they recover from wounds. Is the Zulu war I saw four parsons weundsd in the lsgs with bullets, on# of Item especially having received a bulla! just below the knea, Wing all the senes, sad leaving a hols that you eould see through. The doctors sain the only hope for any of them was amputation. This they refused to allow, and they would le nothing but pour oold watm from lima to tlraa. When I last aaw them all but the worst oould walk and bis wound looked healthy, the bone having grown together, and knffted Eite strongly. No white man eSuld ve lived without an operation. On the uMtshaad, these men soon sneensab Is Bfcsas «r disease Soft Coal smok*—*women umo live near railroad tracks, or in the vicinity of factories which burn soft coal, may make clean clothes look as clean as if grass-bleached by pouring boiling water over them after they are washed, and letting them soak all night, scalding and rinsing them the next morning. The yellow tint as almost entirely removed by this process.