A Remarkable Diary

A man who died in Berlín, Rensselaer county, at tbe age of 73 left a record which he began when 18 years oíd and continued for 53 years. The book, filJed with methodical entries, shows that in these 52 years the man had smoked (28.715 cigars, of which he received 43,629 as presenta, while for the remaining 585,086 he paid about $10,433. In 52 years, according to bis bookkeeping, he had drunk 28,786 glasses of beer and 36,081 glasses of spirits, for all of which he spent $5,350. The diary closes with these words: "'I have triedall things. 1 iiave seen many. I have aecomplisbed nothing." -