The Republican journal., 1870-04-21
How TO GET FAT.

II is IA striking fact that most persons want to
weigh mere than they do. and measure their health
hy their weight, is if man were pig, valuable in
proportion To his heayiness. The is not fat ;
good plough horse has but Il moderate amount of
hesh. Heavy men moi those which eX XperienceI
contractors employ to build railroads and dig ditch
es. Thin men, the world over are men for work.
Tor endurance; they are Wilv and hardy: thin peo-
pl, live the longest the truth is, fat i, disease,
and, AS proof, fat people are never we'll day at
tne-ure not suited for hard work.
Still, there is medium between being fat as a
hutterbali and rs thin and ucecss fence rail
For mere looks moderate rotundity is more dcSir-
able, to have enough of flesh to cover all aneular-
ties. To accomplish this in the shortest time, Il
mnn should work but little, sleep great part ofthe
time, allow nothing to worry him, keep always in
a Joyous laughing mood, and live chiefly on album
mates, such as boiled cracked wheat, and rye, and
corn, and barley with sweet milk and buttcr-mk
and meats. Sugar is the best tattencr known.
some years ago there was very remarkable
man in Wall street: his name was ON every tongue
throughout the country, as ''the man who made
paper, that Is, signed other mems name, to notes
payable TO HIMSELF and sold them to banks, bank
ers and moneycd men in the street ut large dis
counts. Most of the purchasers knew the names
were forged; but tempted by the heavy discounts,
and the maker of paper being known to take up his
notes always before they We're due, the ball rolled
up to hundreds of thousands.
1t stated on oath at the trial, and cOrrohor,l-
ed, that he always had the headache, and was
never seen down town without cigar in his mouth !;
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the penitentiary-waS so faithful to the laws and at
lentive hi, business and withal so reliable that
acerkShip or some easy berth was given of a very
quiet, sedcntary character In the second month
Of his Imprisonment he had gained fifteen pounds IN
weight lie was never allowed to smoke.
Within year man was charged with some in
fraction of the laws, and sent to prison ava
trial, without the knowledge of his wife, to whom
he had just been married, after short courtshp
In about three months, she aseertainhd where he
was; and, on being shown to his cell. she at first
did not recognize him. he had ''neShed up So
These are eases among ten thousands Of others
which could be narrated. where persons have
grown fatter gong to prison; the rule of prison
life fully accounting for the tacl. They do nothing
but eat and sleep. They eat regularly of PLAN
meats and coarse bread.
From all the statements male, the conclusion is
undeniabe that safe hcalthfu and sure method Of
Increasing flesh is to live quiet, indoor life, sleep
great deal, eat regularly of plain meat, and coarse
breads, or any of the grains namcd cracked i'll
pieces boiled well, and eaten with milk; keep
ing the system cool by the of cold water,
ana maintaining daily and free action of the
bowels, which last is pretty sure to follow diet
composed mainly OF coarse breads and cracked
gram; because chemistry has demonstrated that
The most nutritious and strengthening part of corn,
oats, rye, barley and rye in the outer part, in
the Shell or BRAN which is unfortunately separated
from the inner portion, giving us the pure white
and comparatively innutritiouS flour, while the
most hcalthtul and inviSorating part, the bran,
or outer shell, is thrown away or given to hogs
horses and cattle. Halls journal of Health.
EXPERIMENTS WITH MANUREs. James H. Ball,
OF North Nassau, n u, having carefully conduct
ed some experiments, gave the following as the ap-
phcation of different fertilizers to corn He tried
tour kinds of material double refined poudrettc,
hog manure, hen manure, and plaster, and ashes
and plaster, the plaster being about one-tifth the
bulk of the hen manure and ashes, in the common
mixtures. lie used about gill to the hill of ashes
and plaster, hen manure and ashes and poudrette
and hog manure composed with four times its
bulk of muck quart in each hill:
When cut up in the fall, 100 hills with ashes and
plaster weighed, Sc lbs
100 hills with hen manure weighed, IN q
100 hills with poudrette weighed. 40
100 hills with hog manure weighed. 20 4"
100 hills without manure weighed 80 /"
The soil was a grayelly loan, and had eight load.
of barnyard manure spread and plowcd in before
planting,