CURIOUS CALCULATION.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5118, 12 June 1885, Page 3

CURIOUS CALCULATION.

I bare been married thirty-two yeara, during which time I hate receired from the hands of my wife three cups of coffee each day, two in the morning and one at night, makJDg about 35,040 cops of half- ■ apint each, or nearly 70 barrels of 30 gallons each, weighing 17,520 pound*, or nearly nine tons weight. Tet from that period I have scarcely raried myself in weight from. 160 pounds. It will therefore be seen that I have drunk in cfflfce alone 218 times my own weight. I am not so much of a meat eater, yet I presume I hare consumed about eight ounceß a day, which makes 6806 pounds, •r about ten oxen. , . , „. Of lour I hare consumed, in the 32 years, about 50 barrels. For 20 years of this time, up to 1831,1 hare drank two wine glasses of brandy each day, making '900 qts. The port wine, Madiera, whisky, punch, &c, I am not able to count, but they are not large. In champagne I hare been extremely moderate, as I find from my bills that I hare paid for 53 baskets in the last 13 years) which is about 1 bottle a week, - and this not consumed by me. When we take into account all the vegetablet in addition, such as potatoes, peas, asparagos, strawberries, cherries, apples, pears, peaches, raisins. Ac, the amount consumed by an indiridnal is most enorncus. , Now, my body has been renewed more than four times in 32 years; and, taking ii for granted that the water, of which I hare drunk m»eh, acts merely as a dilutant, yet, all taken together, I conclude that I bare consumed in 32 years about the weight of 1100 men of 160 pounds eaeJi.-rCoe.