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Show LIVED LONG ON FRUGAL L'iET Englishman Who Died in 1680 p-oved That It Was Possible to E.o Out Existence Cheaply. Thomas F. Curby, the cl .impiun eater of .Massachusetts, deebrnd that dyspepsia is the result of enng too little, and not too much. His Sunday dinner consisted of thirteen lobsters, sixty eggs, and one hund'-eo oysters. At the other end of the sen if must be placed old Roger Crab: the frst vegetarian, vege-tarian, who died September 11. 1GS0, after proving Hint a roan 'ould live on 75 cents a year. Or'ginn '.y a haberdasher hab-erdasher in a big way cf h isiness at Chesham. England, a free liver and drinker of strong ales, hi: "got religion" re-ligion" also dyspepsia in middle life, sold his stock, gave the proceeds to the poor, nnd took to living in a hut on three-farthings a week.. Instead of "strong drinks nnd wines," he says In his autobiography, "I give the 'old man' he lived two centuries too sood to call it "Little Mary" "a cup of wilier; and. Instead of roast mutton, rabbit wdth bran, and pudding made with brnn and turnip-leaves chopped together." And on this diet he lived to a ripe old age, surviving repeated cudgelings and Impusonment for witchcraft. |