Curiosities Of Life

Lay your finger on your pulse, and know that at evcry stroke Soiue mortal passes to his Maker, sorae fellow being crosses the river of deatli, and if we tliink oí' it vu may well wonder that it sliould be so long beforo our turn comes. Half oí all who live die beforo seventeen. Only one person in ten thousand Uves to be ono hundred ypars oíd, and but ono in a hundred i caches sixty. The íuarried live longer than the single. ïhere is ono soldier to evcry eight persons, and out of every thousand Lorn, oaly livo weddings take place. If you t.iko a thousand pergons who háve rcached seventy years, thero are of ( 'leiïrymen, oratora, ond public speakers 44 Farmers ... ....... . 40 Workmen 33 Boldien 22 Liiwyers ... 29 l'rut'is urs 27 Doctors 24 These statements are very instructive. Farmers and workmen do not arrive at a good oíd age as often as the clergymen and others who do no manual labor. But this is owing to the neglect of the laws of health, inattention to proper habits of life in eatincr, drinking, sleeping, dress, and the proper care ot' themselvcs after the work of the day is done. These farmers or workmen eat a heavy Slipper on asumv" mor's d iy, and sit around the doors in their shirt sleevos, and in their tired conditic-ii and weakened circulatiou are easilj' obi)led, laying the foundation for diaraa, billioui cclio, lungfever or consumpfcïOTï'.