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Show Potatoes Cause Idiocy. Vodka, forbidden I'.uvvor pi T!"-'-!a by the e.:ir. Is ilislilled from pulnln. s, and the edict may lie regarded us yet another shade of i;:ienuiny cast upon the lotig-sull'eriii tuber, for It Is Interesting In-teresting to note tb::t the ":y evils ascribed to vodka drinking tod.;v wt-re formerly attributed to eating potatoes. Xot such a grout while auo a learned Frenchman wrote a livMiso to show Idiocy had increased si. ice the Intn duction of the potato into Europe, Eu-rope, and Knglish medical uu'n In p.ist times condemned it as :. cause Hi yulsy uud other hideous diseases. |