WAITING FOR ASSISTANCE.
“‘Halloa, thee big fellow!’ cried the lad to the six-feet Archdeacon of ——, ‘I wish thee’dst get off thy ’oss, and give us a lift with this here bag of coals.’
“The venerable rider had delivered many a charge in his life, but never received such a one as this himself—so brief and so brusque. He was taken aback at first, and drew himself up; but his good nature overcame his offended dignity, and dismounting, he played the part, not of the Levite, but of the Samaritan. The big priest and the small boy tugged and tumbled the sack, and hugged and lifted it, till the coals were fairly in statu quo—the archdeacon retiring from his task with blackened hands and soiled neck-tie.
“‘Well,’ exclaimed the small boy as his venerable friend remounted his horse, ‘for such a big chap as thee art, thee’s the awkwardest at a bag o’ coals I ever seed in all my born days! Come op, Neddy!’”
Hogish.
Pork is one of the vilest articles ever introduced into the dietetic world. It is a food for the generation and development of scrofula. The word scrofa (Latin), from which scrofula is derived, means a breeding sow. Pork is the Jew’s abomination. I have never seen but one Jew with the scrofula. The Irish worship a pig. They die by the wholesale of scrofula and consumption. Tubercles are often found in pork, sometimes in beef. We had the gratification of adding to the health of Hartford for two summers by abating the swine nuisance. Previous to our war on them, the hogs rooted and wallowed in the streets!
Adulterations of Sugar and Confectionery.
It is pleasantly supposed that sugar is the basis of all candies; and originally this was doubtless true.
It would be better for the rising generation if the original prescription was still carried out, and nothing of a more injurious nature than sugar was added to it, in the innumerable varieties of confectionery which are daily sold in our shops, or in richly decorated stores, “gotten up regardless of expense,” over elegant marble counters, and from tempting cut and stained glass jars, or from little stands upon the street corners, to our children, old and young.
Sugar, pure and in moderate quantities, is a very harmless confection.