Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1901 — THE LIFE OF MAN. [ARTICLE]

THE LIFE OF MAN.

He Sleeps Twenty Years and Eats a Herd of Texas Steers. Tell a man that he has slept twenty years and he’ll give you a pitying stare, but it’s a fact just the same. The man who has reached the age of sixty has spent one third of his life, or twenty years, in slumber, and if a man is lucky enough to live until he is seventy-five he has Rip Van Winkle beaten to a standstill. The average person sleeps eight horns a day, or exactly one third of his day’s life. Again, if you abruptly inform a man of sixty that he has stowed a herd of cattle under bis belt in his time, be will put you down as a third year man at an insane asylum. Figures, however, don’t lie, and you can give him a statistical knockout. A healthy man eats, on an average, one pound of meat everyday of his life, and in s l x ty years he will devour 21,900 pounds. Allowing 1,000 pounds as the average weight of a beef, you can have twenty-two cattle, a respectable herd.