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VOL XII.
HIPPOPHAGY.
Surprising Progress in the Con¬
sumption of Horse Meat.
Equine Flesh Eaten by People
In Many European Cities.
Contrary to what is commonly sup¬
posed, a very respectable number of
French men and women have for a
long time been eating a large quantity
of horse meat, because this food agrees
with their stomach as well as their
purse.
In our day, consumers of golipeds
have so increased that iu many places,
it appears, horse meat is sold at a
much higher price than it was fifteen
or twenty years ago, without, how¬
ever, having reached‘such a figure as
iu Denmark for a few years past, and
recently iu Germany. In France, hip
pophagy, while remaining within
reach of modest purses, lias made sur¬
prising progress. In several localities
ordinary butchery has been seriously
affected by the competition of this new
trade. For example, at Toulouse, the
city of France iu which the largest
number of horses are consumed pro¬
portionally to the number of inhabi¬
tants, the butchery syndicate lias
formed itself into a sort of committee
against the sale of horse meat.
At Paris, the first horse butchery
was opened on the 9th of July, 186(5.
The number of soiipeds slaughtered
from that epoch up to the 31st of De¬
cember of the same year was only 902.
It rose to 2758 in 1869, to 65,000 dur¬
ing the siege and the communo, to
5732 iu 1872, and to 10,619 in 1877.
The horse butcheries numbered 48 on
the 1st of January, 1874, and 132 on
the 1st of January, 1889. At present,
the price of horse meat is nearly half
that of beef for corresponding cuts.
Thus a fillet of beef is sold at 2 1-2
francs per 500 grammes, and a fillet
of horse meat at 1 1-4 francs. The
inferior cuts, which are from 40 to 60
centimes for beef, are from 20 to 30
for those of horse meat. The soiipeds
seized after being slaughtered, as unlit
for consumption, numbered 3583 from
1868 to 1884, that is to say for 203,-
637 consumed in 17 years; 304 in
1886 for 18,435 consumed; and 245
in 1887 for 16,446 consumed.
At Lyons, Bordeaux, Orleans, and
Troyes and other cities the output of
the horse butcheries is enormous.
According to Professor Thomassen,
of the Veterinary School of Utrecht,
hippophagy is in great favor at Rot¬
terdam. Horse meat is used there as
human food to an extent that is un¬
known in Denmark, Sweden and
Switzerland, as well as in several
parts of Italy, such as Lombardy,
Piedmont, Veuetia, etc.
It is extensively used in Milan,
while it is scorned in Turin. In the
latter cty, only 55 horses were slaugh¬
tered at the abattoir in 1888. The
flesh of all of those animals was used
exclusively for feeding the animals of
a menagerie. Mr. Manuel Prieto re¬
grets that hippophagy is not adopted
in Spain, where it would benefit
numerous poor laborers, to whom or¬
dinary meat is an article of luxury oil
account of its high price.
The Annual Agricultural Statistics
published by the Minister of Agri¬
culture give the number of horses,
asses and mules slaughtered for human
food at Paris and in the suburbs.-—
[La Nature.
Silk is Adulterated.
“How can a woman be sure of buy¬
ing a good piece of silk?” i sked a
New York mau. The manufacturer
said: “She can’t; the experts are not
always able to tell, and even the
manufacturers are ofton honestly
puzzled as to why a piece of silk
doesn’t wear well. By twisting a piece
of silk around her finger and then
smoothing it out, a buyer can tell
something about it. If it smooths out
without creases it is more likely to
wear well lhan not. By touching a
match to a small bit of it, she can tell
if there is cotton in it. If it is all
silk, it will burn with difficulty; if
there is cotton in it, ft will light ieadi
ly.
The best wav, however, for a wo¬
man to do is to pick out a shop that
has a reputation for honesty in silks
and everything else, and then take the
salesman’s word for it. He is much
more likely to know a good silk than
SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. JULY 7, 1892.
•he, and can make her believe a very
dishonest piece is remarkably good if
he chooses- No woman can be half
way up in the tricks of the trade.
There are more ways of cheating at
silks than at cards. An expert has to
carry a whole apothecary’s shop in his
pockets to make his test, and a power,
fill magnet besides, because one of
the most common tricks of manu¬
facture is to load up the silk in the
dye with iron tilings or lead dust to
increase the weight. Soapstone, gum
arabic and rosin are also common
adulterations in the process of manu¬
facture.—[New York Witness.
About. Bridges.
Coalbrookdalc Bridge, England, is
the first cast-iron bridge ever built.
It was constructed in 1779.
The Bridge of the lloly Trinity,
Florence, Italy, was built iu 1659. It
is 822 feet long, of white marble, and
is even now reckoned as being with¬
out a rival as a specimen of the bridge,
building art.
The covered bridge at Pavia, over
the Ticino, was built as early as the
fourteenth century. Although a half
a thousand years old, it is in a perfect
state of preservation. The roof is
held iu place by 100 gigautic granite
columns.
The great cantilever bridge at
Niagara Falls is entirely composed of
steel. It is 810 feet in length, weighs
8000 tons, and cost $900,000.
The Rialto Bridge, Venice, is said
to have been built from designs fur¬
nished by Michael Angelo. It is a
single marble avch of 98 1-2 feet.
The bridge at Burton, over the
Trent, was formerly the longest
bridge in England, 1545 feot.
The now bridge over the Tay at
Dundee, Scotland, is scventy-s&ven
feet abovo the water, has eighty-five
piers, and is over two miles long.
The lougest bridge in America is a
Irestle-work over a portion of Lake
Ponchartrain, Louisiana. It is nearly
twenty-five miles long.
The largest and longest stone bridge
in the world is over an arm of the
China Sea. Five miles long, 300
arches, each seventy feet high.— [SL
Louis Republic.
The Best Mosquito Remedy.
C. ft. Russel of Bridgeport, Conn.,
has recently communicated to us the
following interesting fact: A very
high tide recently broke the dike and
flooded the salt meadows of Stratford,
Conn. The receding tide left two
lakes nearly side by side of the same
size, la one lake the tide left a dozen
or more small fishes, while the other
ono was fishless. A recent examina¬
tion showed that while the fishless
lake contained tens of thousands of
mosquito larvae, that containing fishes
had in it no larvae.
An English gentleman living on the
Riviera, according to a correspondent
of Nature, having been troubled by
mosquitoes, discovered that they bred
in (he large tanks kept for the pur¬
pose of storing fresh water, which is
rather a rare commodity at this Medi¬
terranean resort. He put a pair of
carp in each tank and succeeded in this
way in extirpating the insect pest.
The utilization of fish iu this way is
an old suggestion, and a very practi¬
cal one under some circumstances.
Many people suffer from the mosquito
plague when the insect breeds in a
circumscribed and easily accessible
place, and where it could be destroyed
by some such method as that used by
the level headed Englishman.—rlnseot
Life.
Couldn’t Fool Him.
“What is the name of the young
man that’s coming to see Ciaribel?”
asked old Spudd, looking up from the
stocks aud bonds column of his news¬
paper. “I think I’ve heard it, but
I have forgotten it.”
“It is one you certainly ought to
remember easily enough,” replied
Mrs. Spudd. “His name is Oliver
Cromwell.”
“My memory, madam,” said old
Spudd, looking fixedly at her over his
glasses, is as good as yours. Crom¬
well is the name of that merchant
down in Galesburg that claimed I
cheated him out of $37.40 in 1873 on
a consignment of eggs. You can’t
fool me ou names!”—[Chicago Tri¬
bune.
The University of New York hai
determined to adopt the cap and gown
for students
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