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82 THE GREAT EXHIBITION
which,, by its evaporation, leaves the caoutchouc uninjured, can be made use of to obtain
sheets of gutta percha of extreme thinness, which have already been begun to be used in
surgery, as well as in the preparation of waterproof papers and cloths. It is more
especially to the manufacture of chemical utensils for the preservation and conveyance of
acids, that gutta percha seems destined to render the greatest services. Latterly pumps
for hydrochloric acid have been made of it, pipes for conveying this acid, bottles in which
to send it away; large wooden vessels have been lined with gutta percha, in which to
preserve the acid; gasometers are being constructed, which will be capable of collecting
the sulphuric acid disengaged in certain chemical actions, and which would have corroded
metallic vessels.
A council medal was awarded to the Gutta Percha Company for their various
novel applications of this substance, and for the extensive specimens they exhibited.
A prize medal was also awarded to the West Ham Gutta Percha Company, for the rich
variety of objects they exhibited, amongst which, one of the most conspicuous was a group
representing a boar hunt, covered with a metallic coating in imitation of bronze, which
displayed the success with which gutta percha may be employed in the decorative
and even fine arts. The exhibitor succeeded in combining gutta percha with sulphur
and the metallic sulphurets, to which the name " metallo-thianised" gutta percha has
been applied. The gutta percha thus treated is as hard as ebony, and can be used for
most purposes to which wood and ivory are generally applied.
CHAPTER XII.
SUBSTANCES USED AS FOOD.
AMERICA, ITS RAW PRODUCE—SCOTLAND, MESSRS. LAWSON AND SON----AGRICULTURAL SEEDS,
GIBBS AND CO.----MALT AND HOPS—BEER—CHAMPAGNE—TOBACCO----ASSAM TEA—COFFEE—
CHICORY—COCOA----PARAGUAY TEA—PRESERVED MEATS----PRESERVED VEGETABLES—CANADIAN
PRODUCTS—NEW BRUNSWICK----NOVA SCOTIA—AUSTRALIA—NEW ZEALAND — CAPE—FRENCH
PRESERVED MEATS—AUSTRIAN CONTRIBUTIONS----SPAIN----SWITZERLAND----UNITED STATES----
MEAT BISCUIT — OSMANZONE—PRESERVED MILKS—CAVIARE, ZUPANG, ETC.—BIRD'S NESTS—■
PREPARATIONS OF BLOOD—HONEY—ISINGLASS.
In inviting the attention of our readers to the consideration of Food, we confess we are no
disciples of
"-------— Those budge doctors of the Stoic fur,
"Who fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub,
Praising the lean and shallow abstinence."
We urge that moderation in the use of the good things of this life is a far superior virtue
than that of total abstinence; and we hold to the sentiment expressed by Milton, which
we take to be his own, albeit he has put it into the lips of Comus—rather a questionable
authority, our adversaries may suggest. Let us see, however, what the jolly reveller
advances, for truth is valuable, from whatever source it may proceed—
"---------------If all the world
Should in a pet of temperance feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,
Th' All-giver would be unthanked, would be unpraised,
And we should serve him as a grudging master,
As a penurious niggard of his wealth,
And live like nature's bastards, not her sons."—Comics.
which,, by its evaporation, leaves the caoutchouc uninjured, can be made use of to obtain
sheets of gutta percha of extreme thinness, which have already been begun to be used in
surgery, as well as in the preparation of waterproof papers and cloths. It is more
especially to the manufacture of chemical utensils for the preservation and conveyance of
acids, that gutta percha seems destined to render the greatest services. Latterly pumps
for hydrochloric acid have been made of it, pipes for conveying this acid, bottles in which
to send it away; large wooden vessels have been lined with gutta percha, in which to
preserve the acid; gasometers are being constructed, which will be capable of collecting
the sulphuric acid disengaged in certain chemical actions, and which would have corroded
metallic vessels.
A council medal was awarded to the Gutta Percha Company for their various
novel applications of this substance, and for the extensive specimens they exhibited.
A prize medal was also awarded to the West Ham Gutta Percha Company, for the rich
variety of objects they exhibited, amongst which, one of the most conspicuous was a group
representing a boar hunt, covered with a metallic coating in imitation of bronze, which
displayed the success with which gutta percha may be employed in the decorative
and even fine arts. The exhibitor succeeded in combining gutta percha with sulphur
and the metallic sulphurets, to which the name " metallo-thianised" gutta percha has
been applied. The gutta percha thus treated is as hard as ebony, and can be used for
most purposes to which wood and ivory are generally applied.
CHAPTER XII.
SUBSTANCES USED AS FOOD.
AMERICA, ITS RAW PRODUCE—SCOTLAND, MESSRS. LAWSON AND SON----AGRICULTURAL SEEDS,
GIBBS AND CO.----MALT AND HOPS—BEER—CHAMPAGNE—TOBACCO----ASSAM TEA—COFFEE—
CHICORY—COCOA----PARAGUAY TEA—PRESERVED MEATS----PRESERVED VEGETABLES—CANADIAN
PRODUCTS—NEW BRUNSWICK----NOVA SCOTIA—AUSTRALIA—NEW ZEALAND — CAPE—FRENCH
PRESERVED MEATS—AUSTRIAN CONTRIBUTIONS----SPAIN----SWITZERLAND----UNITED STATES----
MEAT BISCUIT — OSMANZONE—PRESERVED MILKS—CAVIARE, ZUPANG, ETC.—BIRD'S NESTS—■
PREPARATIONS OF BLOOD—HONEY—ISINGLASS.
In inviting the attention of our readers to the consideration of Food, we confess we are no
disciples of
"-------— Those budge doctors of the Stoic fur,
"Who fetch their precepts from the Cynic tub,
Praising the lean and shallow abstinence."
We urge that moderation in the use of the good things of this life is a far superior virtue
than that of total abstinence; and we hold to the sentiment expressed by Milton, which
we take to be his own, albeit he has put it into the lips of Comus—rather a questionable
authority, our adversaries may suggest. Let us see, however, what the jolly reveller
advances, for truth is valuable, from whatever source it may proceed—
"---------------If all the world
Should in a pet of temperance feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,
Th' All-giver would be unthanked, would be unpraised,
And we should serve him as a grudging master,
As a penurious niggard of his wealth,
And live like nature's bastards, not her sons."—Comics.