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As a people they are more particular thau any people in the quality 

 of the flesh they eat. Their butchers are carefully educated to distin- 

 guish bad meats of all sorts, by the look or the feel, and in this city 

 no better flesh can be obtained than such as is killed and sold by Jewish 

 dealers. The word scrofula is derived from a term which means sow, 

 and medical men will, almost to a man, testify that it expresses a true 

 connection in morbid pathology. I am surprised that fat meat always 

 sells so much higher than lean, unless it can be shown that lean flesh 

 is defective in flavor and tenderness. We pay, for instance, thirty 

 cents a pound for a fat cut, and reject twenty per cent of it in the 

 tallow which is unfit to be eaten. If our climate were excessively 

 cold there would be better reason, as we know the Esquimaux drink 

 train oil as we do water, and the whales killed in the Greenland seas 

 are the fattest. In high latitudes fat is laid on by beast and fish as 

 well as consumed by man in order to protect the vitals from the 

 effects of extreme cold. But those who consume fat meat in this 

 latitude do it for no such reason. In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, I 

 find my ideas so well expressed in three verses of old English dog- 

 gerel that I quote them, thinking that by such quaint phrase they 

 may stick in the memory better than from such consideration^ as 

 liave presented : 



Who eats the leanest 



Is the keenest 

 In wit and repartee, 



Since sense and fat, 



Like dog and cat, 

 Never will agree. 



Then shun that food, 

 It is not good 



For stomach or for brain. 

 'Tis full of ills, 

 Requiring pills 

 To make us well again. 



Thus, dainty bits 

 Destro}- the wits. 



As William Sliakespeare said ; 

 So if you're so prone, 

 Let fat alone. 



Or you'll be sooner dead. 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — While agreeing with all that Dr. Smith has 

 said about the unwholesomeness of pork I must think the general 

 preference for a fat bullock has good reasons. We have in this city 



