Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — The Kola Nut. [ARTICLE]

The Kola Nut.

A stimulant everywhere in use in the interior of Africa, and especially in the region tributary to Sierra Leone where it grows, is the nut known as “kola,” or “guru.” ’ 4 * This nut is chewed as if it were tobacco, and the powder is eaten. The taste is sweet, astringent, and bitter in succession. Europeans as well as negroes are devoted to its use, and many singular stories Have been current as to its strange effects upon the human frame. It not only sustains the system under the greatest fatigues, even without food for long periods, but it is also a certain preventive of the dysenteries and dangerous fluxes which render the lowlands of Africa so dange'rous. The powder makes foul water drinkable and harmless. ' In the new Mason & Hamlin Upright Pianos the strings are held by screws and secure I directly to the iron plate, each string being held by a separate screw. In pianos generally the strings are held by the friction of wrestpins set in wood. The results of the Mason & Hamlin Improvement are remarkable purity of tone (resulting in part from the easy method of tuning the three strings belonging to each tone, exactly together;, with much less liability of getting out of tune or being affected by climatic changes. This improvement has been pronounced the greatest made in Upright Pianos for half a century.— lioitun Journal.