Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1892 — Food of an Ancient People. [ARTICLE]

Food of an Ancient People.

Plentifully scattered through the relic beds of Switzerland’s lakes arc fragmentary remnants of Its ancieut people’s food. We learn that they were not cannibals, for, amid a profusion of animal bones, very few ol the human species have been detected. The deposits of the earliest settlements prove that the inhabitants were ardent hunters, and then largely fed on the spoils of the chase. But in after ages, when farming occupations were followed to a greatei extent, the flesh of tamed animals was chiefly eaten. The bones have mostly been split open, doubtless for the purpose of extracting the marrowAmong the animals domesticated by the lake dwellers were the ox, the sheep, and the goat. Their stalls, like their masters’ dwellings, were upon the water; and quantities ol the litter provided for them have been found in the mud of the lakes. Moss, which has been largely discovered, is thought by the Gentleman’s Magazine to have formed the sleeping couches of the household. Numerous wild fruits, such as apples, pears plums, raspberries, and nuts, were included in the diet of those Swiss aborigines; and the detection of apple parings testified to a certain nicety in their cuisine. They cultivated the common cereals, wheat and barley, and flat, round cakes have been disinterred, and also several round stones, between which the grain was ground.

A toung woman residing at Absecon, N. J., was out buggy riding with a young man of the same village, and when they came to a toll-bridge he put his more or less manly arm around her waist and squeezed her real hard. She made him take hex right home, and then had him arrested for assault and battery. If this is where the proceedings terminated it is only fair to say that arrest was too good for him. Any reasonably goodlooking woman should be duly kissed at all toll-bridges, according to timehonored custom. The decision of a St. Louis court to the effect that alimony in a divorce case cannot be collected from a man who is on a strike is plainly in pursuance of the idea of one row at a time. A man who has a fight on hand with his employer is in no sbape to be “scrapping” with his wife, and vice versa.