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highly useful application to a recent bruise. ‘‘ Eye damaged, 
Sir?” asked Jingle (at the “Golden Cross” Hotel, travellers’ 
room). “Here, Waiter: a raw Beef-steak for the gentleman’s 
eye. Nothing like raw Beef-steak for a bruise, Sir. Cold 
lamp-post very good, but lamp-post inconvenient. Deuced 
odd standing in the open street half-an-hour with your eye 
against a lamp-post, eh ? Very good! ha! ha!” 
In the Cheetham School (of the thirteenth century) at 
Manchester, within the Wardens’ Room, is a_ sideboard of 
beautifully carved oak; it is made from the top of a bookcase, and 
from the lower part of a bedstead in which the young Pretender 
slept. The lad who takes a visitor round shows with special 
delight the carving of “‘ the cock that crows when it smells roast 
Beef,” opposite to which is a Pelican; tempore, Charles the 
Second. 
BEER. 
(See also ALE and Matt). 
Brgr, which is practically Ale when brewed together with hops, 
is not a good beverage for persons of sedentary habits; unless 
taken quite moderately by such, it burdens the liver with 
products of starch ferment, and causes dyspeptic sluggishness. 
If Beer gives rise to acidity in the stomach, this may perhaps 
be the result of an acid fermentation in the liquor itself, especially 
if it has not been kept long in the cask. German Beers are 
fermented at a lower temperature than those made in this 
country, and contain more starch converted into dextrin ; there- 
fore a secondary fermentation takes place in them to a consider- 
able extent when drunk, and produces much carbonic acid gas. 
The peculiar flavour of Bavarian Beers is attributed to pitch in 
the wood of the barrels. Lager Beer (or Stock Beer) is a light 
German Beer, so called because stocked for ripening before 
being used. It has been said to owe its soporific effects in some 
cases to the leeks used in its manufacture, which vegetable makes 
persons who partake thereof sleepy. But the Lancet teaches 
that the well-known flavour of garlic in Lager Beer is rather 
due to the low temperature at which this beverage is brewed. 
In the New England States, unfermented “ Root-Beer” is 
made for the women, and children, this being somewhat similar 
in character to the well-known “ Kop’s Ale” of the British Isles. 
