The Placer herald., 1864-03-26
NUMBER 30.
Curiosities of Eating.

but one meal In twenty four hours; it. after
this, he had to go to party and take sec
ond dinner, be ate nothing at all next day.
tie died at the age of seventy years.
A lady of culture, refinement and unusual
powers OF observation and comparison, be-
came widow. Reduced from affluence to
poverty, with large family ofsmal children
dependent on her manual labor for daily
food, she made variety of experiments to
ascertain what articles could be purchased
for the least money, and would, at the same
time, go the fatherest" by keeping her
children longest from crying for something
to eat. She soon discovered that when
they ate buckwheat cakes and rnolasses, thew
were quiet for longer time than after cal,
ing any other kind of food.
distinguished Judge Of the United States
District Court observed that, when he took
buckwheat cakes for breakfast, he could sit
on the bench the whole day without being
uncomfortably hungry, if the cakes were
omitted, he felt obliged to take a lunch
about noon. Buckwheat cakes are unver,
sal tavorlte at the winter breakfast,table and
scientific investigation and analysis has
shown that they abound in the heat,formnp
principle, hence Nature takes away our ap,
petite for them in Summer.
During the Irish famine, when many died
OF hunger the poor were often found spend
ing their last shilling for tea and tobacco
and spirits. 1t has also been often observed
in New York, by those connected with char.
table institutions, they often laid out every
cent in tea or coffee, instead of procuring
the more substantial food, such as meal, and
flour and potatoes. On being reproved for
this apparent extravagances and mprovi
dence, the reply, in both cases, was identical;
their own observation had shown them that
a penny's worth of tea, or tobacco, or ouor
would keep OFT the sense of hunger longer
than penny's worth of anything else.--
Scientific men express the idea of SAYING,
"Tea like alcohol retards the metamorpho-
sis of the tissues" in other words it gives
fuel 20 the flame of life, and thus prevents it
from consuming the fat and flesh of the
body.
If a person gets into the habit Of taking a
lunch between breakfast and dinner, lie will
very soon find himself getting faint about
the regular luncheon time; but let him be so
pressed with important engagements for sew.
eral days IN succession as to take nothing be-
tween meals, it will not be long before he
can dispense with his lunch atogether.-
These things seem to show that, to certain
extent eating often, is mere matter Of hab-
it. Whole tribe of Indian hunters and trap
pers have been known to eat but once in
twenty-four hours, and that at night
Halls Journal Of HealM
RAT SroRY.-An extraordinary battue
it is said, lately took place in the sewers of
Paris. Taking advantage OF the frost. which
drives this particular game into covert, the
owner invited Christmas party to partake
of the sport of rat-kilIing. All the great
sewers were driven in one direction till mill
lions of rats, which fought among themselves
like tigers as they were hunted along, were
collected in the large drain by the bridge Of
Asnieres, 40 dogs were then let down into
the sewers, and after fight which lasted As
hours, and in which four dogs we're killed
and some blinded, no less than ! 10 900 rats
were despatched
London sporting paper says that Hee-
nan remains very sick. His weight is about
$50 lbs. lie declares that he has no recol.
lection W whatever of anything that happened
in his fight with King after the third round.
He then felt singular giddiness which never
has left him.
man near Utica, N. Y, lately sold his
wife to widower for a COW.
1t is reported by telegraph from Washington
that it is pretty certain that tax of per cent
or twelve per cent year is to be laid on gold.
Does the Government want to drive all the gold
ont 0f the cOuntrvp IF IL tn In az wi mt
would its currency be worth?
Louisville Journal.
GooD.-The Springfield Mass Republican
thinks if the Administration would impose
tax upon lying, it would realize large rev.
enue from its own kilograms. 1t reports of
victories are invariably false.
General Dumont, member Of Congress
from Indiana, is a father of nineteen children,
ten of whom came into the world in couples.
lie sits alongside the bachelor Thad.
Stevens.
There is salt we'll in Lansing, Michigan,
which, at the depth of 1900 feet, yields
eighty per cent brine.
Prentice thinks it is no more than right
that men should seize Time by the forelock,
for the rude old fellow sooner or later pulls
all their hair out
~ poor fellow sent to prison for marrying
two wives, excuses himself by saying that
he had one, she fought him; but when he
had two they fought each other.
A seam propelled yacht, built for the
Sultan of Turkey, recently went upon trial
trip on the Thames, and made more than 20
miles an hour.
An exchange says that marriages have in-
creased five per cent. under the Adminstra-
ton of Lincoln. So have funerals increased
five thousand per cent. ander his paternal
sway.
The Grand Jury of Los Angeles, have
found an Indictment against Justice Woodi