BRAIN WORKERS EAT APPLES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 361, 9 April 1903, Page 3

BRAIN WORKERS EAT APPLES.

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I The declaration kt made by act Ivh TMtigator that he has discovered «3 food that is peculiarly adapted l<Ltbd need* of the literary man. This mast asserts that apple*, and raw applea a£ that, are the best diet on which tal feed genius. He tells of the penchant of his father, a man of letter*, who! lived to the age of nearly 90, for apple pudding, which he ate almost; daily, and raw apples, which he atd morning, noon and night. He' adde: "It is surprising how many Ipersone fancy that raw apples are indigestible, and only endurable in the early morning. Doubtless the? old adage that fruit is gold in the morning and lead at night is to some extehtanswerable for this, to my thinking, erroneous impression. I find? that after working late at night, say till twelve or one o'clock in the morning, one geta hungry, and that-then five or six apples or more, according to their size, with a draught of good cider, constitutes a most agreeable and wholesome supper, and one that conduces to a sound and refreshing night's rest. But apples, to be really beneficifl, should be eaten as children eat th<- in, rind and all, and in; sufficient '.piantities to be satisfying. The man "Who, first paring off the skin and w| '.-h it the best part of the flesh, dalli_* with the residue of an apple'after Oinner ia no true apple lorer."

¥0 PROVE HIS BRAVERY. B9as Sflewst wtth Wente Wam*t ntkes Boat Drawn Tooth to Show Bow Kevy He I*. _j !K dentist congratulated a young Iwoman on the pluck with which sha had undergone an opera&on in dental surgery, says the Pluta Record.'and added: "But women always have more fortitude than men when it comes to the treatment of the teeth. There's Mra. Blank, for instance, a thin, pale, nervous creature. I pulled four of her back teeth the olher day, and she didnjt make the smallest whimper, but her husband came to hie a little later and he, a six-foot Hercules of a inr.n, howled like a Comanche while 1 pulled a molar for him, and after the job was over he. fainted dead away. When he came to he said: " 'Give me the tooth, doctor.' "'Why?* said I. " 'To take home to my wife, to prove to her that I had it pulled. She said I wasn't brave enough.' "I had thrown the tooth in a box with a lot of others, and, of course, I couldhjt identify" it, but I picked out i one that might have been it, and the man put it in his vest pocket and went home." RELICS OF ANCIENT MINERS. gateveating Dlncovery In a JLoßjfAbandoned Scottish Mine Hens Edinburgh^

Archaeologists are much interested fa a, discovery just made in the Fife coal pit near Edinburgh. During operations by the "Wemyss Coal company at an old disused pit at the Blair burn, in order to prevent flooding, the overmen discovered a large number of miners' tools such as were used some 300 years ago. The shovels are all made of wood, some of them being'as good as the day they were made; the picks and mells are iron, the pinches are wood with iron points. One of the operators stated .that there are huge blocks of coal lying about all cut out with the pick, so large as to puzzle the present day collier how the old miners plished the. task of cutting them out; the pick handles are of great thickness, approaching almost to the thickness of props used for supporting the roof at the present time. There is a tradition that the old mine was flooded, causing the death of many of the miners, and the conditions of the mine and the fact of so many tools' lying about the] seems point to the truth of the storj, STRANOE MOUNTAIN TRXBB. Diaeorerr ot an Cnkaown MimV at Al>orleri»o» In the WUBa of Borneo. A strange tribe has just been discovered in Borneo by Dr. A- W. Nieuwenhuis, the distinguished Dutch explorer. As he was traveling through .the district of Sarawak he heard from 'us guides that at a little*'distance there was a mountain tribe which no Kuropean- or America: had ever visitad, and straightway he went thither, and in a day or two found himself at the headquarters of these' unknown. .vboKJgincß.',. At once he saw that they' 7 ■irffpre'.d from all other natives of Borneo; and he- spent some weeks' in tcquainting himself with their curijus customs' and also in 'studying their country, which is entirely unknown to foreign travelers. In thia way he accumulated a mass of new naterial, which he intends to give to lie world at an early date in the ,'orm of a book. •■•-,'' This is the second journey, which 'Jr. Nicuwerihuis' has taken'to/tJentr»l Borneo. He first went there In 189S uid explored the sources of the Ka» ' nuas and Mahakkani rivers,: after which he returned to Europe, where he at once obtained an appointment as director of the. Botanical garde* i.fc Biii.teiizorg. In 1890 he went again ' to ..Borneo, intending to thoroughly explore the interior of the country, and it is claimed that in this task he ; has succeeded better than anjr pr%f> vious traveler.