The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1866-02-15
CuriosiGics of Eating.

An old beau, formerly well known in
Washington City, was accustomed to eat
but one meal in twenty-four hours, if af-
ter this he had to 90 to party and take
a second dinner, he ate nothing all the
next day. He died at the age Of sey-
enty.
4 lady Of culture, refinement, and uu-
usual powers Of observation and compar-
ison, became Il widow. Reduced from
affluence to poverty, with a large family
of small children dependent on her manu-
al labor for daily food, she made a yarie-
ty Of experiments TO ascertain what ar
ticles could be purchased for the least
money, and would at the same time go
the fmthpst," by keeping her children
longest from crying for something to eat.
. She soon discovered that when they ate
buckwheat cakes and molasses, they were
quiet for longer time than after eating
any other kind of food
a distinguished Judge of the United
States 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 We're omitted he felt obliged to
( fake lunch about noon. Buckwheat
cakes are a uniyeEs9la favayita..2Av th.a
( TTesti@atIon and analysis has shown that
they abound in the heat forming princi-
pie; hence nature takes away our appe-
tite for them in summer.
During the Irish famine, when many
died of hunger, the poor were found
spending their last shilling for tea, to-
bacco and spirits. 1t has also been
often observed in New York, by those
connected. with charitable institutions,
that when money was paid to the poor,
they often laid out every cent in tea or
coffee, instead of procuring tho more sub
stantiaI food, such as meal, -four and po-
tatoes. On being reproved for their APP
parent extravaganza and appropriateness
the cry universally was, III both cases,
identical their own observation had
shown them that a penny's worth of tea
tobacco or liquor, would keep Off the
sense of hunger longer shan . penny
worth of anything else. Scientific men
express the idea by saying Tea like
alcohol, retards the metamorphosis OF
the tissues; in other words, it gives fuel
70 the fame of life, and thus prevents
if from consuming the fat and flesh OF
T the body"
If person gets into the habit OF
taking a lunch between the breaksa 81
and dinner, he will soon find himself
getting faint about the regular luncheon
time but let him be so pressed with
important engagements for several days
in succession as to take nothing between
meals. it will not be long before he cal
dispense with his lunch altogether
These things seem to show that, to
certain extent, eating is a mere hadn't
Whole tribes Of Indian hunters ant
trappers have been known to eat bu
once in twenty-four honrs, and that 4
nicbt.-Halps Journal Of Health.
The United States screw steamer MAJ
cissus, lost with all her crew near lamp
BAY, Fa., last month, was q pu
chased vessel of 100 tons and caTyin
two guns. She sailed from New 1or
in February, 1864, for the West Gu
Squadron, TO which she has been a
tached ever since. She performed niue
service as a dispatch and picket boa
In December, 1864, while watching Il
Confederate feet in Mobile Bay, she WI
struck by a torpedo and sank almost II
mediately. Three of her crew were 5
verelv scalded, and had it not been f
the assistance rendered by the gunboa
Octorora and Cowslip, all hands won
have persisted The Narcissus W
subsequently raised, and, after being l
paired, was placed on the PensacC
station. When she was lost she was
her way to New York to be sold. Il
crew would have been discharged
their arrival at New York, as their ter
of service had nearl y expired.
Thenumber of persons on board v
thirty, all of whom persisted. Her co
mander was Acting Ensign Bradbury
Calais, Ne, who leaves wife a
children. Mr.. Dunbar, of Castine, n
was her executive officer
Gen. Longstreet very plainly expresses
views of 1.-The situation, IN a private itt
mes II see that some of the publc men OF
sc. III are still inclined TO doubt our loya
teerS ~ the south and to hold MS III our pres
condition for further guarantees 1 ~ na'
Va 10 To satisfy them We are WlillIS
anxious to do anything that Is an' '., - =
team nrovided we are allowed TO get on >
constitutional platform. l 40 no. =
and that there are thousand men IN the .
Who think differently from myse1 on
. subject; and l have my 1oo ISL i'e !,
there are as many as that VINO - -
the the, Union today, if they were offered
F choice to 90 out or return upon terms
pr equality.
executors Notice.
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CAMP A-o'1Nt , $50 - ~, Daco,,I,ar term
ar old deceaSeu; were III tllo - H-II 10,
mississippi, granted by the said couT
the undersigned All persons having eli
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