Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1899-07-20

1 have used or wasted In those years,
he continues, had been stored In
vessel Of sufficient capacity Its size
would make the famous Heidelberg
tun look like 80 cents. Being an ordin-
airy man, without special likes and dis
likes in the matter of food, bread was
the staff of life with me, as 1t Is with
most men and women"
What a Giant Potatoi
He reckons that he daily ate one and
one-half pounds Of bread, biscuit, cakes
and crackers during sixty out of his
seventy years of life, adding that as
boy under 10 years he probably con-
sumed about half that quantity. This
makes in seventy years 100000 to 3OO,-
600 pounds of bread, etc., a quantity
equal to AL cubic yards. "a man eats
on the average three potatoes a day,
weighing in the neighborhood Of one
quarter Of a pound" continues this au-
thority. THAT isn't much per week and
per year, perhaps, but amounts up In
sixty or seventy years. Imagine TWEEN
ty-one potatoes piled up week after
week for seventy years, making due
allowance for a lesser consumption dur
ing the first ten years. The giant potato
evolved would fill two fiat railway cars
of the longest kind, and 100 men would
be unable to move 1t. Carrots and tur-
nips, though healthful vegetables, are
not eaten in great quantities, yet If
those consumed by the 70-year-old man
In life were formed into one big don
key would look insignificant beside 1t.
The rest of the vegetables he consumed
would fill twelve farmers big wagons"
The Baby and the Ok.
One of the illustrations printed here
with, showing an OK and baby, gives
the comparative size of the OK needed
to supply all the beef he got away with
In sixty years. The proportions are
drawn accurately; the baby weighs
twenty pounds, the OK 100000 pounds.
Most people eat fish of various kinds,
besides meat and vegetables. Figur-
ing one-half pound of fish as the aver
age daily consumption, the total
amount consumed by a man, II he lives
to a ripe old age like our friend, the
mathematician, Is 10000 pounds. The
calculator, asserts that he has eaten
10000 eggs. Americans are great
sugar eaters. The statistician quoted
confesses to having eaten 10000 pounds
of sugar since his birth. To Offset the
sugar, a person eats twenty-five pounds
of salt per year, or about LOGO pounds
in lifetime of seventy years. Assam
ing that the average weight Of man is
100 pounds, ten mems forms could be
made out of the salt the septuagenarian
has consumed so far. OF butter he con-
sumes a ton, adding $50 to 300 pounds
of cheese to aid digestion. The average
man. he says, will eat apples In quanti-
ties to aggregate In size one big apple
measuring fifteen to sixteen feet In cir
conference; the giant orange. made up
Of the oranges he eats In a lifetime
would measure at least ten feet In cir
cumeference, the pear FIVE feet.
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Man consumes five and half pounds
of solids day, namely: One and half
pounds of breadstuffs, one pound Of
meat, half pound Of fish, two pounds
of vegetables and fruit and half
pound of various other foods. That
means nearly a ton year, or fifty-four
tons In sixty years A man drinks at
least a half pint Of tea or coffee for
breakfast, lunch, dinner OF supper, and
between times he has a full pint OF
something weak or strong, or both.
This makes $50 pints, or slxty-nine gal
Ions, per annum, equal to 4,3S0 gallons
IN seventy years. All In all. a man con-
sumes 10000 pounds o. food and drink