HOW CHEAPLY ONE CAN LIVE.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1164, 2 October 1882, Page 2

HOW CHEAPLY ONE CAN LIVE.

I>KEAD, after all, is the cheapest diet <me can live on, and also the best. A story is told that shows just how cheap a man can live, when he gets “down io mush,” figuratively and literally l speaking. Colonel Fitzgibbon was, many years ago. Colonial Agent at ; London for tho Canadian Government, I and was wholly dependent upon remittances from Canada for his support. On one occasion thesejremitti anees failed to arrive, and as there was no cable in those days, he was compelled to write to his Canadian friends to know the reason of the de- ' lay. Meanwhile he had just one ! sovereign to live upon. He found < that he could live upon sixpence per day, or about 12£ cents of our money 1 —four pennyworths of bread, one i pennyworth of milk, and one pennyworth of sugar. He made pudding of some of tho bread and sugar, which served for breakfast, dinner, and supper, the milk being reserved for the last meal. When his remittance arrived about a month afterward, he had five shillings remaining of his sovereign, and he liked his frugal diet so well that he kept it up for over two years, possibly longor, Twelve cents a day is certainly a small ‘ amount to expend for food ; but a uuux . in Minnesota, about three years ago. worried through a whole year on ?10. He lived on “ Johnny cake.” We know of a theological student in an I Ohio college who, sustained by grace, rice and corn bread, lived thirteen weeks on $7 but there were several good apple orchards near the college, and the farmer kept no dogs. It ia not the necessities of life that cost much, but tho luxuries; and it is with the major part of mankind as it was with the Frenchman, who said that if 1 he had the luxuries of life he could dispense with the necessities. Mere living is cheap, but as the hymnologist says, “It is not all of life to live.—< “ The American Miller.”