Smyrna times., 1858-12-16
Digest osoph J.

EsqulmauX Will eat perhaps twenty pounds OF
flesh and oil daily. Compare this with Valen-
tins six pounds, or with COrnaro's twelve
ounces of solids, and fourteen ounces of wine
Captain Parry tried, as matter of curiosity,
how much an Esqumaux lad, who was scarcely
full-grewn, would consume If left 10 himself
The following articles were weighed before be-
ing given. lie was twenty hours getting
through them, and certainly did not consider
the quantity extraordinary:
"'Sea- horse flesh, hard frozen, four pounds
four ounces, do. do. boiled, four pounds four
ounces bread and bread dust, one pound twelve
ounces. Total, ten pounds four ounces. 10
his must be added one and a quarter pint of
rich gravy-sOup, three wlne-g lasses of raw
spirits, one tumbler of strong grog, and one
gallon one pint of water. Captain Cochrane,
IN his Journey through Russia and Siberian
Farary,' relates that the Admiral Saritchetf
was informed that one of the Yakuti ate, in
tour-and-twenty hours the hind quarter of
large OK, twenty pounds OF tat, and propor-
trOnate quantity OF melted butter for his drink.
10 test the truth OF this statement the admiral
gave him thick porridge of rice boiled down
with three pounds of butter, weighing together
twenty-eight pounds, and although the glutton
had already brea ktLsted, he sat down to 1t with
great eagGrness, and consumed the whole with
out stirring from the spot. Captain Cochrane
also states that he has seen three Yakutl6 de-
vOur a reindeer at mea ; and calf weig hing
about two hundred pounds is not 10 much tor
meal of five OF these gluttons.
These facts are curious; but of course they
throw no light on the question, how much food
an individual requires to keep himself alive and
,ctIvs. Nor, indeed, has any method yet been
devised which could elucidate that point. We
can never feel confident that the quantity taken
| is not somewhat more, or sOrRewhat less, than
would really be advantageous. If a man Is ac-
live on SIX pounds daily, he might be, perhaps,
stronger on six and u half; and if six and
half should prove the precise amount which
kept his weight unallered, it would only do SO
under precisely similar conditions, as we know
that on different days he will waste different
quantities.
"Some caterplars daily eat double their
Veight in food; COW eats forty-six pounds
| dally and mouse cats eight times as much,
| in proportion 10 his own weight, as is eaten Gy
a man. But when such facts are cited. we
! must bear in mind the enormous differences IN
the nature of the food thus weighed, their reIa-
tive amounts of water, and indigestlble materl-
sl. The same caution is requisite in speaking
of mans diet"
Snow fakes,
A writer in the Tribune dgresses, ip the
course Of an article, to discourse thus beauti-
fnlly of what is now looking i'll at every win
dow:
What things of beauty these snow-hakes
are! Gather QUO, as it falls in a cold day, upon
a sheet of black paper, and bring it under the
magnifying power of a microscope, and you
shall see a sight to gladden. the eye, if that eye
is one which gladdens over the curious things
that nature forms. The snow flake is curious
such as those which tell on Sunday the mos
so of all, for they are made up OF mass of lit.
tie crystals combined in one, all with as much
regularity of order as though done by some
skIllu hand for definite purpOse--such, fol
instance as the wheels of an American ma
chine-made watch, where every part is exactly
like its corresponding part though thousand
different time. keepers. So of this little snow.
fake. Every part, and every whole, or com
bned fake, corresponds with every other one
, as though all were formed in great mannfac
tory by sklful men and machines, like those
that form the watches Who shall go up int
! the clouds and visit this great mandatory o
a snow iakes-these little things of wonderful
: northumberland tell us how they are made
Who can look at them as they fall, some w
wot of did on Sunday, instead of church-goinI
and say, with petulant tone and unamlabl
), manner, Do look at the nasty snow VIII
ever saw such November weather!' We have
and SO has the person who made the angry ex
u pression-persOns, alb, thousands OF them bu
II they never saw q snOw-ffGke. Masses of Then
g they may have seen-but one, never; becaus
- no one with human intellect above the groyell
ing animals, who ever saw a snOw-flake--sa'
J. so as TO see and think of its wonderful fountai
: can ever see the snow falling without feeln
Is that he is surrounded with things of wonderfu
=. beauty, that, once seen, must always be admir-
:. ed. And SO of rainy or fair days-of dny G
" night-serene or stormy, or wind or calm,
IS cold or hot, Winter or Summer, Spring OF AT
q tumn, May or November--al have their apprt
(. pirate beauties 10 be admired, loved, honoted.
r Self. Appreciation.
;" DIR. Holmes, in the last of his Autocrat pI
" pers, says:
&c Selfappreciation is a slow and gradual pr
as cess At first q child thinks he can do ever
or thing. remember when thought could Ii
no a house if | would only try hard enough. So
hegan with the hind wheel ofa heavy old fam
s' lv'coach built like that in which 10y Lady Bou
q, tiful carried little King Pippin, if you happt
n 70 remember the illustrations Of that story
or IiAed with all my might, and the planet pullt
! down with all its might the planet beat
- After that my ideas of the difference betwe'
ID nv will and my muscular force were mere a
n carateIy defined. Then came the illusion, th
so could. of course, lick serve out or p,
Z: ish Off, various small boys who had been