Cranberries | 4.00 | .20 | 14 | 76 Dates, dried | 69.00 | 1.30 | 101 | 885 Figs, dried | 62.50 | 1.30 | 80 | 805 Grapes, fresh | 14.70 | .50 | 28 | 201 Dried, raisins | 70.50 | 2.70 | 100 | 870 Jam, or preserve, average | 60.00 | .50 | 70 | 744 | | | | Melon | 7.20 | .60 | 11 | 103 Oranges | 10.60 | .70 | 15 | 146 Peaches | 9.20 | .60 | 12 | 117 Canned | 10.80 | .30 | 14 | 128 Pears | 15.70 | .40 | 18 | 203 Canned | 18.00 | .30 | 22 | 195 Pineapples | 10.00 | .90 | 13 | 112 Plums | 19.10 | .50 | 24 | 200 Prunes: | | | | Dried | 73.30 | 2.30 | 86 | 724 Stewed | 22.30 | .50 | 27 | 243 Raspberries | 5.60 | .50 | 16 | 76 Strawberries | 8.80 | .60 | 12 | 144 ——————————————————————————————+——————————+——————+——————————+—————————— =The Physiologic Action of Moderate Doses of Alcohol.=—The result of a series of experiments by Dr. Parke were as follows: “By quickening the action of the heart, it shortens the interval of rest, and, therefore, interferes with the nutrition of the heart. It also produces palpitation and breathlessness. Even small doses of alcohol, by increasing unnecessarily the action of the heart, are injurious. It acts on the nervous system by lessening the rapidity and the delicacy of the impressions, as well as by lessening the power of control of a train of thought. Further, by this same blunting of the nervous system, voluntary muscular power is impaired, and the finer combined movements are less perfectly made. It causes a lowering of the temperature of the body, and, although it is taken to overcome the effects of exposure to cold, it has been learned that persons who take it are less able to resist the exposure to cold.” As the result of modern scientific investigation and experimentation, alcohol with its compounds has been taken out of the list of beverages, where it has heretofore been classified with tea and coffee, and out of the list of foods, to which class it had been admitted because of the known oxidation of alcohol in the body, and has been placed in that list of drugs known as narcotics, alongside of ether, chloroform, opium, and cocain—all of them, the most deadly drugs in the Pharmacopeia, yet, when used by skilled hands, the most beneficent.