A Worse Than Useless Life
By Editor
A Worse Than Useless Life.—The news comes from Munich, Bavaria, that a fortieth anniversary of an employee of a hospital has just been celebrated. The ones who celebrated it were beer saloon-keepers. The reason for the celebration is that that one man, in forty years, had drunk at that one saloon the enormous quantity of 43,800 liters of beer. A liter is a little more than a quart. This is an average of three gallons a day, and it had cost him over four thousand dollars. It would make a tank of beer twenty feet long by ten feet wide by seven and one-half feet deep. This is the record that one man leaves to posterity, by which he shall be remembered! Surely it would seem that the very object-lesson itself would turn any young man who had ambition away from it with loathing.