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Show ED ON LEAN DIET. Englishman Who Lived for Year on Lesc Than One Dollar, noser Crab wagered -1,000 that he would live for a year on threo shillings shill-ings and sixpence and won his bet. Indeed, he more than won It, for at ihe end or the twelvo months ho had mauaged to save threepence out ol his "housekeeping money," his expenditure expen-diture for food, thereforo, averaging Just over threo farthings a week. For this xum even the cheapest cf ordinary ordi-nary vegetarian diet such as lentils, for instance, was qulto out of tho question, ques-tion, and ho had to content himself with tuittlo soup thickened with acorn flour, pudding mailo of bran and turnip tur-nip leaves chopped .togofier, and fo forth. Yet on thin diet Crab not only survived, but actually gained some few pounds In weight; whllo as for his general henlth, ho declared that he had never felt better man ho did at tho termination of his self-imposed ordeal. ICugllsh Exchange. |