Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1869-08-19
Respectfully.
Aug. II, 1869.

Il tEhah1 AND AKI INuiES.- MA
surprise the reader to know that, in his
life Of sixty-five years duration, with a
moderate allowance of mutton, for in
stance, q flock of three hundred sheep
would be required and that altogether
for dinner alone, adding to his mutton a
reasonable amount of pntatoes. vegeta-
b,cs, and water or other liz nd, daily. for
thirty years of this period, over three hun
dred tons of solids and liquids will have
been consumed by him. A calculation
has been made of what modern epicure
can consume in a lifetime 1t it as fol-
lows: Take seventy years as the life Of
the epicure, beyond which age many of
that class of men arrive, being still in the
enjoyment of Il good digestion (fur exam
pie Talleyrand, Cambaccres, Lord Seton
and others). we will suppose him to be
contemplating by retroSpection the whole
amount of his life's consumption of food
and drink, laid out before him at one view.
Here is probably what he would sec: 10
oxen, 300 sheep. 100 calves, 200 lambs,
30 pigs, 1900 fowls, 300 turkeys. $50
geese, 400 ducks, 900 pigeons, l, 400
partridges and quail, 600 woodcock, l.
400 snipe and other small game, besi1
500 rabbits, 40 deer, 100 guinea fowls,
10 peacocks and go wild fowls. In fish,
100 sheepshead, 40 salmon. 22O cod,
260 trout, 400 mackercl, 100 founders,
900 eels, 30 haddock, 1000 herrinss,
and 10 600 smeltS also, 20 turtles, 30,
600 oysters, l, 800 Holsters aud crabs,
800 600 >ardiDes and anchovics. In fruit
about l, 800 pounds of grapes, % pine
apples, 1000 peaches, 1.4oo apricots,
995 melons, and some hundred thousand
plums, grsengages, apples, pears, and
millions of cherries, strawberries, tss,
currents, walnu;s, chestnuts. almonds,
etc. In vegetables of other kinds, 25,-
AS pounds weight; about , 334 pounds
of butter, 6S4 pounds of cheese, II 600
eggs. Bread, $4,000 pounds, ofsalt aud
pepper 1000 pounds, Of sugar 400
pounds In liquids he would have I'M
bibed Ii 900 gallons, which for a man
accustomed to the use OF strong drink,
might be subdivided into 10 hogsheads of
wine, l 1874 gallons of ale, 5S4 gallons of
whiskey, 5,394 gallons Of coffee, cocoa,
and tea, 1904 gallons Of milk, and p
139 gallons of water The quantity of
food consumed by one han IL the course
of his lifetime, as estimated above, as
founding as it appears, is based on an
authentic scale Of the regular average
meals of the day of an epicure Of sixty
years ago.
A stole, swelling with the proud cou-
sciousness of his own worth. took 4 soil
tary' walk and, straying amongst the
groves Of Academus, he sat down between
an Olive aud a Pine tree. HIS attention
was soon excited by a murmur which n
heard among the leaves. The whispers
increased aud, listening attentivcly, be
plainly heard the Pine say to the Olive
as follows: Poor tree | pity thse thou
now spreadest thy green leaves and e1ui-
test in all the pride ri youth ami spring
5ut how soon VIII thy beau y De tarnish-
ed The fruit which thou exultest thy
self to bear shall hardly be shaken from
thy houghs before thou shalt grow dry
ana withered thy gresn veins, now $,
full of Juice, shall bs frozen; naked ana
bare. thou wilt stand exp rsed to all the
storms Of winter. whilst my hrmer les'
shall resist the change of the season
Interchangeable is my mot 0, and through
The various vissicitudes Of the year shall
continue equally green and vigorous as
am at present. The Olive, with grace
full wave OF her boughs, rephod: 1T is
true thou wilt always continue as thou art
at present, leaves will keep that sullen
and gloom green in which they aye Do~