A German chemist has discovered this year that there is sugar in tears.
We have been told by poets that there is "sweetness in all things," but
we little thought that it lurked in the corner of every squint. We
always thought that crying was a sign rather of a sour disposition, but
according to this new discovery it would seem that the more a lady cries
the more her temper is sweetened by it. By-the-bye, hysterics must be
invaluable to a cook on board wages who has to find her own sugar! What
a lump of sweetness, too, Niobe must have been,—for she was "all tears."
To a grocer of the present day she would have been invaluable, for she
would have supplied him all the year round with "the very best moist."
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