Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — Eating Bread and Milk with Lime Water. [ARTICLE]

Eating Bread and Milk with Lime Water.

Milk and lime water are now frequently prescribed by physicians in cases of dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach, and in some cases, to our knowledge, tire diet has proved very beneficial. Many persons who think good bread and milk a great luxury frequently hesitate to eat it, for the reason that the milk will not digest readily. Sourness of the stomach will often follow. But the experience of many will testify that limewater and milk is not only foodand medicine at an early period of life, but also at a later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions of digestion and assimilation have been seriously impaired. A stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or other, wise unfitted for its duties, as is shown by the various symptoms attendant upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery, and fever, will resume its work and do it energetically on an exclusive diet of bread and milk and lime water. A goblet of cow’s milk, to which four tablespoonfuls of lime water have been added, will agree with almost any person, will be agreeable to the stomach when other footl is oppressive, and will be digested when all else fails to afford nourishment. The way to make lime water is to procure a few lumps of unslaked lime, put the lime in a stone jar, add water until the lime is slaked and is about the consistence of thin cream. The lime will soon settle and leave a clear and pure liquid at the top, which is lime water. As the water is taken out more should be added, and the lime should be frequently stirred up and allowed to settle.— Scientific American.

Thk Black Hills Pioneer states that there is an extensive horse-stealing organization in the Hills, some members of which make Deadwood their headquarters. The plan is to steal horses in the diggings and run them off to confederates, a chain of whom is stretched between the diggings and the railroad towns. The crime is then charged against raiding parties of Indians. The temperature of the Hoosac Tunnel is about the same all the year round, the thermometer standing generally at sixty degrees. The air is pure except when there are a great many trains going through, filling the tunnel with smoke; yet, notwithstanding that, there is now no doubt about the tunnel’s being able to thoroughly ventilate itself. Two eggs, which had been left in a nest by a discouraged duck at Oneida. N. Y., a few days ago, were subsequently hatched out by .the hot weather.