Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-14

family as are the sumptuous wine dinners
at which the interests of the Establish
ment are looked after. To the latter charge
the Dean has thus far deigned no reply
and it must stand or fall, therefore, accord
ing to individual prediction. These are
the lighter aspects of the affair, but it ha.
a very serious side. That tea-dealers will
suffer is inevitable, for there are SO many
people in England who
NEVER FAIL TO BLOW THEIR NOSES
When any high dignitary of the Church
happens to sneeze, that the consumption Of
the article is sure to fall off considerably
for some time to come. Look, too, at the
perplexity that has arisen. Intoxicating
beverages are fast going out of fashion
here, and the doctors have long ago tabooed
| coffee. They tell us, also, that the light,
| aerated drinks are not healthful. These
produce irregular action of the heart and
the water is 30 foul as to make one shud-
der to think of it. Besides, the average
Englishman has horror of water in its
adulterated state, and never imbibes it ex.
cept under protest. From all these injuri.
GUS draughts refuge has been sought hereto.
fore in the steaming teacup, but with this
torn ruthlessly from their hands, what are
the wretched people to do 1t really seems
as though they could only save themselves
by
RETAINING FROM LIQUIDS ALTOGETHER,
And as though Providence would point to
this as the proper course in the emergency,
man has just turned up whose experience
demonstrates not only the practicabilitY,
but the great advantage of such diet.
By strange coincidence, too, this man is
one of the clergy, so that we have another
illustration of the homeopathic principle of
like curing like. This gentleman, who
steps forward SO OPPORTUNITY to lead the
way from the Egypt of perplexity into
which Dean Edwards has plunged us, is
tolerably advanced in years, and looks as
hale and hearty as prize-fghter. He is a
vegetarian, Of course, and this fact, we are
told, has alienated from him the affections
of the parish butcher. Doubtless, too,
his course has provoked the en-.
nifty of brewers, distillers, and many
tea and coffee merchants. But these
are tritiing matters when the sum total of
resultant good is considered, for the public
will, no doubt, see in this remarkable man
not simply deliverer from present crisis,
but one whose triumph over bodily necessi.
ties offers ready solution of some of the
most difficult problems of life, and
promises to greatly
REDUCE THE COST OF SUBSISTENCE.
Besides, what an avenue Is opened by this
same example for further experiments
in the same direction, for if man can live
without drinking, with science only in the
alphabet of its development, who knows
but that after while, following this i'm
portant lead, they may learn to drag
through existence without the bother or
expense of laying in the more solid forms
of nutriment, and may eventually become
indeed so etherealizsd in their nature as to
dispense with the grosser conditions
of existence altogether. A pleasant
prospect, truly, but how far some
ethereal nights, otherwise than in fancy,
we are painfully reminded by an instance
of combined gluttony and bibulousness
that has just occurred in this city, which,
think, throws into the shade all previous
records in this line. The individual who
has thus covered himself with renown is
city official Ia vestryman, or rate assessor
in the parish of Clerkenwell. We usually
look for voracious appetites in this class of
public servants, and are quite reconciled to
the idea that they indulge themselves now
and again at the expense of their constitu-
ents. But there is reason in all things, we
have been told, and we used to believe it.
A PRETTY SQUARE MEAL.
When, however, we learn on The authori-
ty of brother vestryman that the indi-
vidual in question began with little dry
sherry, then took two pork sausages with
bread, butter, cheese and tankard of
beer then two cigars and brandy and
soda then went to distillery to assess
the premises and went in for cherry brandy
and had champagne ad lib 4: then went to
supper at neighboring restaurant, and
Tapped up two soups, tackled half a turbot,
wolfed two lamb chops, some boiled fowl,
and ham and piece of turkey then took
a little rice and MARINA
lade pudding, celery and cheese, two
brandies and soda, two cups of tea,
two cigars, and final brandy and soda -
when such a case as this comes to our
notice, well authenticated, we begin to
doubt whether there is reason in all things,
and whether some things proverbiaily sup
posed to have limit to them, the human
cheek and the human stomach, for in
stance, are not, after all, capable of indie
finite extension according to constitutions
and circumstances. The description of
this man, as given by his irate brother
vestryman, who speaks of him in open
meeting as " round -paunched, voracious
and decidedly capacious parochial glutton,"
readers shall draw their own conclusions.
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