Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1895 — A Meal For One Penny. [ARTICLE]

A Meal For One Penny.

In Tokio there is a large government paper-making and money-printing establishment, where hundreds of laborers and operative are engaged. In connection with the works there is an eating-house, where food is supplied to ail who desire to obtain, their meals on the premises. The scale of prices fol a meal is from a penny to 8 pence. The lowest wages paid is 5 pence a day. All the operatives in this establishment are good specimens of what Japanese food will do in the way ol sustaining strength and robust health. No more healthy set of meffand women or youths can be seen in any part of th« world; none more capable of enduring the strain and drain »]>on the system that continuous labor entails. Very many of the draught coolies in Yokohama have a ealf to their leg measuring seventeen inches and even larger, the height of the man being not over five feet and four or live inches. It takes good strong food to put suet muscle into the frame of the human being, and that of the Japanese does it, Doubtless, had not the long centime! of seclusion from the outside work compelled the Japanese te marry ant intermarry among thcmselve is they hare, they would show a much tallei race than they now do.

The McQueston Country house at Marblehead Neck, Mass., was lighted- during the summer by electricity generated by a windmill used in connection with storage batteriesThe plant cost about $1,500, and it is said that not once during the summer was there a failure of light because of. low wind. Frequeiitly_the_ wind was too high for the dynamo, which was not suited for a wind much over twenty miles an hour. Mexican cotton is prolific, but the fiber detoriates from year to year unless renewed with the Northern plants. Keep up that Rasping Cough at the peril of breaking down your Lungs and Throat; rather let the afflicted immediately resort to Dr. D. Jayne’s Expectorant, which cures al! Coughs and Colds, and ameliorates all Lung Complaints and Throat ails. “Hard astern.” as the tugboat captain remarked when he sat down suddenly on the slippery pavement.