Stupidities

lLl's Journal of health eramicr-tes the f'Ulowing. The iscapable of baing indefinitely extended Indeed if one p'iiould specify al! the silly and rMroloua habita and practices by whieh the majoritv ofreasoning niortalsare injuring tlití!usoK'cs, he would mnke a ehapter as long as the Atlantic cabio. Walking aloiij? tlïO et reets with tïia poiut oí' an umbreüa sticking out behind, under tho arm, or even tbc sbouldor. - By suddenly rtoppiBg to spaak to a friend or other causa, a person walking ii tbe rear had hia brains penerrated through tlio oye, in o;io of our gtroet, ':. a fi dsya. Stopping in a chureli aisle, affer di.mission and staiidiug t.i eou verse witb others, or to allow oooiipants of tho s:nic pew to pass out and before, for tlio courtysy of preccdenca, st thu expen3 of a grenter boroislu-.css to those Ichiixl. 'J'o osrry long pe;ci! ,i or outside cuat pcxiket. Not long si uw. a olerk in Nuw York fell,aud tbe loug eed&t j.eneil i pierced nn important nrtory, th.it it had to bc cut down apon from the top of the ihoulder to prevent bis bloeding to denth, (rith a three ruonths illness. To takü exereise or walk for tho liealtli wlicn evcry tcp is a drsg, and iustiuct urges to repodo, To guzzie down glftis aftergiapa of cold water, on getting u) in the niorhiug, without nny fenling of thirst uader the iinpression of the bealtb giviag DAtnro of itawashmg out qualities. To il d.jvn toa íable and foree your self to eat, where thero is i!'t only no appetite but a positire aversión of food. To take a glass of soda or tuddy, or fangaree, or miut drops on a tammer doy ander tho belief t h ■ t it ins.ifer and botter than a glaes of ooKl water. To economiza timo, by robbincj yourelf of nucessnry sleep, on the ground that an liour saved frora leep is au hour gain ed for life whon in reality it's two hourg ctually lost, and half a dozen other hours actuaüy spoiled. To persuade yourself that you aro destroying ono un piensan t odor by ■i'rjducing a strenger one. that is, atiempting to wee ten your ow unwashed .garments and pursou by onveloping yourelf in thu fumea uf musk, eau de Cologne, or rose water ; the best perfume baing a clean skin and well-wasUed elothing.