Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1887 — Sufficient Unto One’s Self. [ARTICLE]

Sufficient Unto One’s Self.

We should all become, as nearly as possible, sufficient unto ourselves, but not in a narrow sense. But it is a duty we owe the world to become such excellent companions, comrades for ourselves, that we shall be important factors in the lives of others. One that is “poor company” for himself is rarely of much account to his friends. If life were divided into tenths wj*: might say that it might matter onetenth to the world what we were in habit, thought, and ability; that it was nine times as much consequence what we were capable of being to our family, to ourselves. If it is well with us personally, with us in our family ini- ! portance and content, we can afford to pay moderate attention to the world’s claim, though it can not justly disturb one whose home life is content. —Our Country. Home. The journal of the Chemical Society states that of some eighteen varieties of cheese experimented with cheddar was digested in the shortest time, namely, four hours; while unripe, Bkim, Swiss cheese required ten hours for solution. There appears to be no difference in the digestibility of all sorts of hard cheese, or all soft cheese; but all fat cheeses are dissolved the most rapidly, because, being open by reason of the fat, they are the more readily attackedjby the solvent. There seems to bo no connection between the digestibility and the percentage of water present in the cheese, though there is some connection with the percentage of lat and degree of ripeness. From numerous examinations which have been made of the quantity of nitrogen dissolved, it is concluded that cheese, on account of its great digest tibility, is the most nourishing of all foods, meat and eggs excepted.

Two men were talking at the corner •pf a street in a Western village in America, in a not over friendly when one of them remarked, “I guess a man has the privilege of free speech in this country, don’t he?” The other quietly drew a seven-shooter, and replied, “Yes, but what do you wish to say?” The other, observing the weapon, answered, “Oh, nothing,” and walked off. The Mary Eose, a British man-of-war, was sunk off the coast of France in 154 r >, owing to the weight of armament she carried. It is sa ; d that breechloading cannon have been recovered from the wfeck. Foot-bale by electric light is the latest thing in Canada, it is very popular.