What a Man Does in Half a Century

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 29, 1875

What a Man Does in Half a Century.

According to a French statistician, taking the mean of many accounts, a man of fifty years of age has slept 6000 days, worked 6500 days, walked 800 days, amused himself 4000 days, was eating 1500 days, was sick 500 days, etc. He has eaten 17,000 pounds of bread, 16,000 pounds of meat, 4600 pounds of vegetables, eggs, and fish, and drank 7000 gallons of liquid, viz., water, coffee, tea, beer, wine, etc., altogether. This would make a respectable lake of 300 square feet surface and three feet deep, on which small steamboats could navigate. And all this solid and liquid material passed through a human