Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — A REMARKABLE CHARACTER. [ARTICLE]

A REMARKABLE CHARACTER.

Death of a Man Wlio lfad Many StriiTi~e TruDs. One of Ihe most remarkable characters Cincinoinnati ever -saw died recently. '.'fttfas- I>r. Joseph Carreston of "West Eighth street For sixty-two years of his life lie never drank a cup of coffee nor siped a little lea. For fifty years of his life he ate no meat. For twenty-six years of his life he never took so much as a pinch of salt. He came from English stock and was horn in that county of long-lived people, York, Pennsylvania, Feb. 27, 1808. His ideas were very simple, but on the subject of diet he believed strictly in a vegetarian diet. Nature, he used to say, has supplied this food, and it is against nature when a man eats meat. To those who would eat meat, however, lie insisted that it should be oaten boiled. He used to point to the Indians as a proof of this, claiming that they were never sick, except from wounds. He trusted to no cook to prepare his food but did it himself. When lie went upon a journey lie took his food with him. and a few weeks before his death was in New York city, going the entire distance ■with his food. lie claimed that everything greasy was injurious to the human system and of all tilings horrible was a piece of meat fried. Dyspepsia and all the ghosts and nightmares of indigestion he attributed to frying. Ilis only drink during his life was water or sometimes u lemonade. He was continually experimenting. mu.lhn_jiuh.ject of diet, and attributed his long life entirely to his diet and habits.