BRITISH BEER.

Westport Times, Volume VII, Issue 1045, 11 February 1873, Page 4

BRITISH BEER.

So far aa Burtou is concerned Bass stands upon a little over 100 acres of ground. Bass used last year 267,000 quarters of malt for browing purposes. If it be reckoned that an acre grows four quarters of barley, 60,750 acres were occupied in growing the malt which Bass used. Of hops his consumption was 29,000 cw.t., which engrossed about 2000 acres of hop-grow-ing country. In malt tax and license duty Bass paid last year £200,000. The total brew of Bass during the past year amounted to 720,000 barrels —each barrel containing 36 gallons; so that Bass eou'd have served more than half the estimated number of the human race with a glass ef beer per head from his brewing of one year. Throughout his Burtou premises Bass owns over five miles of private railways, rims five private locomotives, and uses twenty-six steam engines, with a collective horse-power of 43G. Bass used last years 33,300 tons of coals. Bass ha* in use 30,000 butts, 144,000 hogsheads, 113,000 barrels, and 249,000 kilderkins, a stock of casks in all, in store and scattered over the country, exceeding half a million. —' Daily News.'

A scientist has at last solved the ancient problem. " Can an Ethiopian change his skin ?" This is the way he proposes to work it: The candidate will first be subjected to a bath of alkaline water. Having been well cleaned, he is placed in a room where a reliable thermometer indicates 120 degrees of Fahrenheit. After 15 minutes baking, the partially cooked victim is conducted to a bath of •Chlorine water, at the ordinary temperature. The htat has opened all the pores, so that the chlorine flows in and reaches the colouring matter. To close the pores, the subject must be introduced into an ice cellar, where he spends ten minutes in absolute agony, but relative bliss, for the next step is to drop his exhausted form into water heated to 180 degrees. In this the pores open, the chlorine grapples the colouring matrer and departs with it, and our coloured brother is coloured no more.

Christianity.—lt is owing to our having imbibed false notions of virtue, that the word Christian does not carry with it, at first view, all that is great, worthy, friendly, generous, and heroic.