Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Use Salt to Sweeten Sugar. [ARTICLE]

Use Salt to Sweeten Sugar.

Who would think of making sugar sweeter by the addition of salt? Such, however, is asserted to be the case by Prof. Zuntz, at a late meeting of the Physiollglcal Society of Berlin. From his experiments he finds that if to a solution of sugar there be added a slight amount of salt and water so weak that it excites no saline taste, the result is extra sweetening of the sugared water. The weakest of quinine solution is said also to produce a practically similar result The explanation given of the above seeming incongruity is that the ever so feeble saltness or bitterness Im. parts an Increased sensibility to the sensation o£ taste by the simultaneous stimuli, and hence an appreciation of additional sweetnesa

Although on land a clumsy animal, the seal is wonderfully quick in the water, and in a fair race can generally catch almost any fish. It is said that the flesh on the forequarters of the beaver resembles that of land animals, while that on the hindQ Utters has a fishy tastg.