How Cheaply You Can Live

Bread, after all, is the clieapest diet one ean live on, and also tho best. A story is told that shows jtist how cheap a man can live when he ents "down to mushj" figuratively and fíterally speaking. Col. Fitsgibbon was, many yean ago, colonial agent at London for the Canadian government, and was wholly dependent upon remittance from Canada for his support. On one occasion this remittance failed to arrive, and as there was no cable in those days, he was compeiieu to wme io nis uanauiau friend.s to know tho reason of the delay. Meanwhile he had just ono sovereign to live upon. He found that he could live upon a sixpence per day, abont twelve cents and a half of our inoney - four pennyworths of bread, one pennyworth of milk and one pennyworth of sugar. He made pudding of some of the bread and sngar, which served for breakfast, dinner and supper, the rnilk being reserved for the last meal. When his reïnittances arrived, about a month afterward, he had five shillingt remainingof his sovereign, and he liked his frugal diet so well that he kept it up for over tainly a small amount to expend for íood; but a man in Minnesota, but three years aojo, worried through a whole year on ten dollars. He lived on Johnny cake. We knovv of a theological stuUent in an Ohio college who, sustained by graee, rice and corn bread, lived thirteen weeks on seven dollars; but there were severa) good apple orchards near the college, and the farmers kopt no dogs. It is not the necessities of life muil i,yni nJ mu 11, i'ui lij' ii[.iunn. and it is with the major part of mankind as it was with the Frenchman, who said f he had the luxuries of life he eoiüd dispense with the necessities. Mere living is cheap bnt, as the hymnologist says, "It is npt all life to lire." .