The Newspaper

-Without my news lapcr lito woulil nurrow ileelf' to the mallest limita oí' my personal expsrieuce, iiiii hunvinity be éompressed iuto the en or ftfteen peftple I mix with. Now [ refusu to aeoept this. I havo uot a íixpence in consols, but Í want to know liow they stand. I was usvor - I never in all likolihood shall bo - iu Japan ; but I have au iut.euse curiosit.y to koow what our troops did at Yokohama. I deplore the poople who sufferud by that railroad smash ; and I symputhizo with the newly-married ooupla so beautifuliy deoicted in tho IUustrated, as thoy drove uff in a chaise, and ouo old gent at the hull-door wav'mg thein a last adieu. I like the lelters of corrnspondents, with their little griovaoces about uupunctual trains, or some unwarrautable omissions in the liturgy. I eveu like the people who ohronicle the rainfa'l, aud record little faets ubout tho mildness of vhe soason. As lor the advertiaoments, I re gard thetn as the glans and ruirror ot' the age. Show me but one page ol the ; wants " of any country, and I eniiiige to give a sketoh of the current civilization of the pei-iod. What glimpses oí rare interiora do wegain by thoo brief paragraphs ! How full of suggostious and of story are they 1 1 - - ■ i - 1 1 (5 While great eaters never live to an oíd age, and are never for a single day without sume " symptom," sorae feeliugjauffieieDtly disagieeable to attruct. the mind unpleasautly ; small enters, those who eat regularly of pluin food, usuully iiuvo uo " spare flesh," ure wiry and enduiing, aud live to an activa old age. Remarkable exemplitícations of ihese statements are fouiul in the üves of tho CL-ntenariiiii's of a past age. Galen, who was one of the most distingyisbud physioiaiis among the aucients, lived very Bf)iringly aiter the age of twentyeigl't, aud clied in bid hnudrcd aud furtioth year. KeutLgeru, wlio nevor tasied spii i t- or win-3, und luborud all his lifu, reuobed odü hundrcd and eighty-five years. Jcnkins, a poor Yorksliire i erinan, who lived on tho eoarsest diet, was ono hundrcd and sixty-iiiiio years old wheu he difd. O!d Pari" livud to one huudrod and fifty tiuoe; his diet beirig njilk, uheese, smali beer and coai'se bread. The fuvorite food of Henry Francisco, who lived to bo u hundrod aud fortv, was tea, bread and butter, and baked apples. Ephraim Pratt,of Shutes bury, Mass., ?ho died agod one hundred and sevoutüon, livod ehiufly on milk, and even that in a email quantity ; his son Michael, by siraiiar insana, arrived at oao buüdrad üd three jeans.