July 21. 1882.] 



KNOWLEDGE ♦ 



139 



" rPKOBLEil No. 46. 

 Rnd Position occnrrin^ in the Thorold Allgaier attack. 

 By Leoxaed'P. Eees. 



^Vhite to play and mate in fire mo 



PROBLEM Xo. 47. 



Bt " Mczio." 



Buck. 



White to phiy and mate in three 



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Leonard P. Rees.— Von will find all information yon require. 

 Wo do not for-ct anything, hnt we sav, Better late than never! 

 •A.. Freeman.— 1. Drawn fpime. 2. The same. 

 Correct solutions of Problem 45- received from H. W., Brenton 



-Received with thanks. Will be examined. 



THE DIET OF THE JAl>ANESE. 



FEW natives, except otticens in tlio capital, sailors, and soldiers 

 oat beef. llutton and pork beyond the ti-ealv porls arj 

 scarcely yet kno»vn. About two lMindrc<l varieties of fisli are eaten 

 one half of the people eating fish every day. .■ The food of the 

 masses is '■ ninety per cent, vegetable." A list of food-plants in 

 119C, not incladinK .sea-plants, has been prepared, with their analyses, 

 by Professor Edwar.1 Kinch, of the Tokio Vnivcrsity. A laieo 

 nnmber of these substances are nnknown, or at least nnuscd, in the 

 United States. Of rice, which occupies in its culture one half of 

 thocaltivated lan.I. there are two hundred and fifty varieties of seed 

 m tho country. Millet is extensively used, but bread raised from a 

 •• sponge of yeast is scarcely yet known in tho popular diet, the 

 old Latin-Portuguese word pan being, however, in use. 



The aoy-bean. which in chemical composition closelv aiiproaches 

 animal fibre, is extensively cultivated. Probably no conntry excels 



Japan in the vancty of leguminous plants raised for food. Of 

 tubers and roots, the sweet potato is the most j,opular, thou^t. 

 strange to say, as much tabooed bv the aristocratic classes iis onions 

 are supposed to bo among ns. Sixteen million bushels of these 

 hatsuma potatoes " wore produced last year, while the "Java" 

 or Dutch -our common white potato-is left to foreigners, the 

 native palate not liking it. Lily bulbs-sixtcen varieties-sor^o as 

 food, boiled and ser^-od with "drawn butter." The lotus root is 

 eagerly eaten, without oblivion of country or d.-cay of patriotism 

 Poppy seeds powdered as condiment, infasions of salted cherrv 

 blossoms for drink, liorse-chestnuts and acorns, are anion" the 

 articles of diet. 



Women s Deess.— The amount of air which any one can take 

 into the body at one inspiration is called lung capacity, or vital 

 capacity. The latter term, is very significant, implying, as it does. 

 that the working of the whole machinery of life depends upon the 

 air which can bo drawn into the lungs. The greater the 



the better the health, the greater the strength\nd activity both of 

 mmd and body ; whUe, the smaller the amount of air, tho less the 

 strength, the poorer the health, the lower the vitality, and the less 

 altogether of bodily power and brain power. Now, f venture to sav 

 that not one woman in a thousand has ever attained to. or at present 

 possesses, her full amount of lung or vital capacity. White men 

 from their youth upwards, hare encouraged the development of 

 lung capacity by vigorous exercise, bv wearing garments which 

 compress no vital organ, and offer the least possible impediment to 

 muscular activity, women, on the contrary, have taken no vigorous 

 exercise, and worn garments compressirg all tho vital or<>M« 

 hile ofifenng, at the same time, the greatest amount of impediment 

 ar activity— J/ r.--. Kinj on "Rational 



Contents of Knowledge Xo. 37. 



Thp Comet seen during the Eclipse. 



Bj A C. Kanrard {lUuilrattdi... 

 Thought-Hesdiqg. Bv the Editor... 

 A Study of Minute Life. Bt Henry 



J. Slack. F.G.S.. F.K.M.S. .. ' 1 

 Was Rameses II. the Pharaoh of 

 By Miss 



.\melia B.Ednard 



Enjlish Seasida Health JResort.4 

 Bv Alfred Haviland, M.R.C 8 

 F.R.M.C.S. Lond ' 



Home Curea for Poisons 



July Flowers. By Grant Aileo 

 ' Bistort's Lady Macbeth 

 Bulterfliea aiid Motha. By W j" 



H. Clark ;...; 



Fire Risks from Blectrto Lighline " 

 A Theory of Foresight* (///».fro<erf) 

 W eather Diagram for the Week 



Correspondence "' 



Answers to Correspondents 

 Our Mathematical Column 



Our Whist Column 



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