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Show Latest Health Food. H How does this strike you for a good H healthy nourishing diet to appease that rH gnawing sensation that vendor of H patent medicines are so fond of culling your attention to. 1 Haveyou tried vitrified bricks, the new H health food'.' It contains no digestible H Mibbtuuccb. Therefore does not call tho hH digestive machinery into opcratiou. fH VitriQed bricks uro made entirely: from H I select pure alum and cement! The. H alum draws together thu shattered H wuru out system, aud the cement fie- H merits it firmly together." H Some who rend this may suppose that it H Is a joke, but we assure them that such- H Is not the ease. The matter within tho quotation marks was published in the H advertising columns of a sober north- H ern contemporary In this stato Now the ad. doed not state thu price for H which this choice food compound is H sold, but there cuu be no-' doubt tliat 'H bricks that, have been close enough to H the fire to cause the outside of them to H melt and which have no digestible sub- l stances, can bo obtained at the brlok H Itiln south of this city at a much lower H figure than the Eastern Grin can deliver H them. And it is much better policy to M patroni.o homo Industries when it is .1 practicable. In the light of this vutu- M able discovery we muy yet iiud that wo .H can produce sutnoicnt food in our conn- H ty to feed its Inhabitants and not havu to import digestablo foods to wear out H our digestive organs ns wo did last H I year on account of the drouth. Wlillo ,1 it is an admitted factthat water Is scarce M lu tills county we iiuvo no doubt of ' there being plenty to mix tho dough M for all the vitrified bricks that our M population can consume for years to M come; and by taking nilvnutago of thu jH supply when the creek is high thcro ' M will be water to spare for those old H fogies who cannot be made to see tho. H value of up-to-date food, -i H |