Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1866-07-14

Varions are the opinions concerning the
cause OF excessive corpulence. By some il
is attributed to 100 great on activity in
| the digestive functions, producing n repid
assimilation Of our food 10y others, to the
| predominenee Of the liver; while Incidence
aud apathy, such as is commonly observed
iu the wealthy monastic orders, are con
sidered as occasioning Iaxiiy Of 6bre fa
vora6lo TO this cnt5oapoiHt
1t is certain that exercise, anxiety oI
mind, want of sleep, aud spare food, are
circumstances opposed to fatness. The
fact is illustrated by Shakespeare, when
Cesar says to Antony i.n
! ''Let me have men about me III at are fat
| Sleek-headed men, and such rs sleep o'hights !;
Yon Cassius has lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous. &"
There is no doubt that food materially
influences this condition of mankind, oil
though we frequently see enormous eaters
who are miserably lean, and fat persons
who diet is most scanty. During the late
war q ravenous French prisoner vas known
to eat fonr pounds of raw COW udder, ten
pounds Of raw beef. and two pounds of can.
dies per diem, diluting his meals with 1--WE
quarts of water and yet this c,rniyerous
brute was perfect skeleton. p'I
Que of these miserable laths once under.
took long jpnr-ey to consult learned
physician on his sad condition, and having
begged TO know in most piteous tone, the
cause OF bis dessication, was favored with
he following luminous answer Sir, there
is prcdisposition 10 in your constitution to
make you lean, and q dIsposi ion in your
Constitution to keep you so. r..,...,..I ~
/. Keyster men tions young man in Lin
coin who ate eighteen pounds of beef daily,
aud died in l724 in the 2Sth year of his
sge,. weighing five hpndrsd aud thirty
pounds. uJi'r.ia- .au Ar. .a.H.8 GHr
no. A baker IN Pye Corner weighed thirty,
four stone, and woGld frequently eat small
shoulder Of mutton, baked in bis oven, and
weighing Eve pounds hs, however, per-
sisted for one year to live upon water Cruel
AID brown bread, by which be lost two
| hundred pounds OF his bulk.
A poor, dimnptiye Frenchman, being
ordered by his SaDgrado to drink quart
Of ptisau day, reoIied, with heavy sigh,
Alas doc;or, that cannot do, since
only hold pint. " ''
% iWhcn the Duke de Chosoul, a remarka-
bly, meagTe man, came to London to nego-
tiate o peace, Charles Townshend. being
asked whether the French Government had
sent the preliminaries of treaty, answered.
lie did not know, but they Ind sent the
outline of an ambassador. ra
AT the court of Louis the XIV, there
were two lusty noblemen, related to each
other the king, having rallied one of
them on bis cUrpulency, added, suppose
yon take little or no exercise Your ma
jesty will pardon me, replied the bulky
duke, for ] generally walk two or three
times round my cousin every morning.
A remarkable case of leanness is men.
toned by Lorry, in priest, who became
SO thin snd dry in all his articulations, that
he was at last unable to &c through the
celebration of mass, as his joints and spine
would crack in SO loud and strange man
ner at every genuaexion hat the failhlu,
were terrified, and the futhlcss laughed