TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Southland Times, Issue 1347, 13 December 1870, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

-.:.! DuKKDiir, Dec 12. : , Mr Neilson offers to stock all the rivers in the colony with American salmon, the money to be paid only when the experiment is proved to be thoroughly successful. .•..---■..-. It is reported here, that alt the King natives are agaia under arms. - ; .. - .: „ ;

The Effect of Tea. on the Srar.— -IF, you pour a few drops of strong tea pii_a. piece of iron— a knjfe blad^ jfor instance — ttie tannate of iron is forinecL, which is black. If you mi* Jt 'with human blood, it forms with the iron of the blood, thai tannate of iron. Now, when we remember that the liquids which enter' the stomach are rapidly absorbed by the veins and; absorbents of the stomach, add enter into, !the circulation. and. are thrown but of the system by the skin; ' ' respiration, and kidney 8, it is probable that a drink so common as-tea^- *nd so abundantly-usedr will have some effect. Canit be possible that • tannin introduced with so much warm 1 ; liquor, producing perspiration, wijl hare no effect upon the skiu ? Look at the tea • drinkers of Euasia, the Chinese, and the old women of America, who have so long i continued in the habit of drinking strong tea. Are they not dark-colored and leather-skinnedf l^hen young they were fair-compleiiaiied.r— Ke&lth Beformwr. - /i ■•■*,.' ... . ■--! .■■" « i :•' »• ■