The Beard

■A writer in tbe Lynn Reporter says : The deaths by cousumption have decreased some fifty per cent. per annum among the stone cutturs of Quincy, Milton, Roekport, and the marble works of Verraont, sinoe they have ceasod shaving and given nature her sway in matters she rnay be supposed to under stand. Workmen in Western flour milis ; minors at Galena, Dubuque and the oopper regions of Lake Superior; employees in drug milis, drivers, engi neers, srotio navigators ; residents iu low countries, and thousands oí artisans whose ernploymont is prejudicial to healthy luugs, generally wear tha tnustache as a sanitary rather than an ornamental appendage to the face of manhood.