The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-11-08

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blessed are the poverty. y.siticsen, IL lon.
geviiy be blessing The majority OF The
eishty.four eeaienariAns who worc alive
IN France 81 the taking Of tho las, census
we're extremely poor There we're twen,y-
one Of them living on alms @ beggsrs or
In almshouses. The open air life OF
shepherd must be also conducive 10 long
iiia. A besgar named kives. At Tstbcs,
was born in iT7o, aud a women who herd
ed goats 10 The Ceyennes mountAias had
exceeded las years widows survive into
. great old age their husbands more often
than widower~ pay such 4 bad com mplimcnt
to their wives. The proportion ofihe cen
tenariAn widows a. compared 10 the Same
olAss Of vidowe, ws. s forty. one 10
twenty iLrec in 1884 Il this because Tho
uneenle sex arc The more deeply sent.
mental, or the gentle one eat less aud
have better regulated tempers'
You know --or perhaps you don't know
that nothing hssiens seuiity like habit
nal euszliug, Would 1, not ho we'll to
hang up the above statistics in the dining
rooms Of city companies aud at tho Nam.
sion housef Your elderly gugzler on tho
shady side OF middle lile ia. though hc
livcs, In many respects dead. HE brain is
starved by the clogging OF tho hair like
arteries which used 10 feed il. The sedi-
ment that chokes them comes Of too nut
ritive food and too much OF IL. His bones
are dense and weigbty. his muscles rigid,
bis knucklcs ehalky. and his lungs aud
throat ready to catch cold. Turkish baths
keep on, iu degree, these effects, bat tho
best plan is not TO be gonrmand. Those
centenarisn beggars, dare say. had not
the means OF eating heavily, and few In
the south OF France, TO which they belong,
drink deep. Meatto is there dear, aud
trying to bad teeth, and fruit Ia plentiful.
cheap and good. This last won't make
bone and muscle 10 child--a reason why
II does not clog capillary arteries. Bat in
tho South II has deal OF force In II,
derived straight from the sun, which is
Convertible into vivacity Eggs aro also
plentiful, hens laying Ia the South four
more months IN the year than in tho
North. The egg 10 ideal food for any ono
who wants lot 70 nntrimcnt in . small
volume. should pity tho French men,
dicant who could not procure At village
inns an omeletto or mn aV sur hpiaf.
II is fact worth noting that most o.
tho families who were raised TO high posi-
tions and profusely gilded by tho first
Napoleon are extinct. and that those sill
existing arc Represented chiefly by women.
The first empire and its wars did not play
havoc with the dukes and princes who
sprang up around its head. Tho harm
Was done by the second empire whose
ideal was .fiiye boa,bn,cd Tho higher class
Bonpaartists ate, drank and were nearly
all guzzlers, and managed TO soak any
amount Of fine wines at their lunches and
dinners, The fashion in their tmo came
in Of having as many wine glasses At each
plate as there arc fucs 10 great stack OF
chimncys. When appetite palled. tho
torbct russe was brought In TO act on tho
unfortunate stomach ~ tonic and enable
IL TO 60 through as much moro @ II had
gone through already. One OF the reasons
why the late Marshal Bszaino could not
get quickly out Of Metz TO bar the way
against the Prussians was that the emperor
started before him, and so the road was
blocked with the sorriee ds Ia boache and
the wagons carrying the belongings Of bis
imperial majesty, which we're truly I'M
pedimeuta. When tho IsrAelites were un.
der q theocracy, aud the chief priests
sons ste as do city Of Londt aldermen,
tho Philistines routed them. Likewise
Marshal do Soubse was immortalized by
his sauce for mutton chops and disgrac.
ed for his defeats.
The old French monarchy was done for
whom Louis XVI. whether trying TO fly
from France as prisoner Of tho assembly
10 one Of its most stormy sittings. could
not do without heavy meal At the usual
hour never saw anything so prodigious
as the serrsoe do Ia boHche At tho Tuilleries
aud Fontainebleau. The kitchens there
we're vast factories, and were situated at .
great distance from the court dining and
baDqueting rooms out oi respect Tor i'm
perial nostrils. by the time. therefore.
tho dishes got TO table they wero spoiled.