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Show Grcof Inventions and Ducoverit y THOMAS BR AttO Csprrlsht. ll iM. T. Bveaukg VrJVldt. Treaa Psb, Ce. ' i 'I THS CANNED FOOD IDEA. Aa animal has been -defined aa "an orgaalam built up around a etomaeh. The definition fits not only the lower" ereaturea, but awn aa wall and tha "Lord ef creeuonT" aa kaucn ao aa the humbleet of animals, ds-pende ds-pende absolutely upon the etomaeh. There are tribes In darkeet Africa the members of which, upon meeting each other. Invariably- inquire, first of all. "How'b your etomachT" They taka It for granted that if the stom-sch stom-sch Is In good ehsps all alee muet of necessity be . K. In ths Intsrrogatory that tba negroes ne-groes exchange In the African Jungle there le the eoundeet philosophy, since ths stomach la the laboratory wherein the forcee of life ara generated gener-ated and maintained. Hence the thnUlng Interest that he-longs he-longs to the Invention of the Frenchman. French-man. Nicholas Appert. the man who aomethlng over a hundred yeare ago. originated the canned goods Idea. In ooneequenca of Appert'e Invention Inven-tion we can now go to any part of the earth, no matter how hot It mey be. no matter how barren It may be of the meana of eubelatence. and find In our ceased stuff ths maintsnance we About everything that the earth producee, from the eubetaatlale to the luaurtee. may be taken te any quarter quar-ter of the globe to so seed as aua may need It. r or a long time Appert'e Idea waa chiefly utlllied by tha wives of farm- 1 era. who botiad the fooda they re-; quired and put them away while . 1 earn I rax hot In air tight iara. Tha can nine Induetrv proper he ran In I hla country about IMS, with la- tett and Kenaett of New York aad! nderwood and Mitchell of Boeton. 1 I iv 1174 a Baltimore man Invented the "cloeed kettle proeaaa" for cook Inef food with eu per heated ateam, and ! at the Caatenatal aspoaltlon In 187f tha aoom waa rva to tha canned fooda aualaeea which made It oaa of tha rreat Induatriaa of tha aatian and of the worM, Thanka ta ApperfB Idea, we hava been aWe to dfacover tha ?orth and 1 Houth Polaa; to explora tha earth's aq ua t ertal Jun lea, to fl nd out 1 he secrets of the sreat deaerts of the a lobe; to halid areat bndaea aad rail-way) rail-way) throvch Africa aad south Amer-It-a. and laat. hut not taaat, to smash the Mrvnrts of the kaiser and make taa wwrM aaXa for democrmey |