FOOD FOR THE BRAIN.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2212, 10 September 1875, Page 3

FOOD FOR THE BRAIN.

A New York letter (says the Sanitary Record) reports that, a short time ago, a certain Dr Lambert read a paper before the Liberal Club on the ' Special Articles of Food adapted to the Nutrition of the Brain and the Methods of Cooking them.' Preparatory to this, he invited som.e of his friends, to a banmiet, which is thus taken off by o.ne of the daily papers : — Lg,st evening a party of gentlemen ate a ' brainial ' dinner at Jones's restaurant, Broadway, their host being Dr T. S. Lambert. Mr James Parton and about 20 others, more or less well known, sat round the board and nourished their brains to a somewhat alarmiDg extent. The waiters grinned from ear to ear when they served the food, for not one of them had had ever dreamed of a dinner beginning with toasted crackers and cheese and ending with boiled custard and buttermilk. The ' brainial ' qualities of toasted cheese have long bee,n knpwfl to scientific me,n, and neatly all the members of the liberal Club are ' passionately fond of boiled oustarcJ, which, as is well known, contains over 90 per cent of phosphorous, and will readily burn if rum be poured over it. Dr Lambert lectures to night on ' Brain Building ' and ib was to raise the intellects of his audience to a high place that he gave this exhibiton of encephalotropophagy, or brainial food. Such a din Der will do occasionally, but is kangerous if too often indulged in. The human brain is about 80 per cent water, and if it be stuffed with the sublimation of cheese, oysters, codfish, tripe, calves' brain, oat groats, and boiled custard, it becomes a powerful battery, a perlious magazine, liable at any moment 1 to explode, to. the great detriment of ics owner and the surpise of bystanders. By the time the sixth course, which consisted of stewed tripe and green peas, was reached, the excitement became fearfully intense, and with the calves' brains the feast became almost an orgie. The forehead of the Pantarch grew four inches higher with the great pressure from within upon the convolutions, butliappily the ganglion where oatmeal becomes universalogy was not affected in any marked degree. The parietal bones of a great Comptist separated, and the coronal suture widened quite perceptibly. Around the brow of a mighty spiritualist there was a marked nimbus, where the escaping phosphorous ignited upon coming in contact with the oxygen of the air. It waa singular in the extreme to watoh the oatmeal rising to the brain j to see the subtle poison o» the boiled ouatard turn a man into a demon of ratiocination ; and as the fiery buttermilk mounted to the intellect and hurled the reason reeling from its throne, the beholder was fain to acknowledge that the gods are just, and of our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us."

A fire occurred last week in a tailoring and saddlery establishment in Riverfcon. The stock and buildings were completely destroyed. They were insured in the Victoria office— stock, L6OO ; buildiiigs, LIOO. A recent English journal contains an accouut of the meeting of the Rugby Union, where it was proposed to decide games by points instead of goals. It .was suggested that three '.' tpuch-downa" should be considered equivalent to one goal, and that each time a side was compelled to touch the ball behind their own goal, it should score a point to their opponents. The matter, howevei, apsed.