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Longevity. BY DR. DIG LEWIS. R. M.

BIRKMAN, Editor and Proprietor. Walking. Walking briskly, with an exciting object of pleasant interest ahead, is the most healthful of all forms of exercise except that of encouragingly remunerative, steady labor in the open air; and yet multitudes in the city, whose health urgently requires exercise, seldom walk when they can ride if the distance is a mile or more. It is worse in the country, especially with the well-to-do; a horse or carriage must be brought to the door eve7i if less distances have to be passed. Under the conditions first named, walking is a bliss; it gives animation to the mind, it vivifies the circulation, it paints the cheek and sparkles the eye, and wakes up the whole being, physical, mental and moral.

We know a family of children in this city who, from the age of seven, had to walk nearly two miles to school, winter and summer; whether sleet, or storm, or rain, or burning sun, they made it an ambition never to stay away from school on account of the weather, and never to be "late;" and one of them was heard to boast that in seven years it had never been necessary to give an "excuse" for being one minute behind the time, even although in winter it was necessary to dress by gaslight. They did not average two days' sickness in a year, and later they thought nothing of walking twelve miles at a time in the Swiss mountains. Sometimes they would be caught in drenching rains, and wet to the skin; on such occasions they made it a point to do one thing let it trudged on more vigorously until every thread was dry before they reached home. There is no unmedicinal remedy known to men of more value in the prevention of constipation than a few miles joyous walking; let one follow it up a walk of two or three miles in the forenoon, and as much in the except in rare cases, when a longer continuance may be made, the result will be triumphant; and yet nine persons out of ten would rather give a dollar a bottle for some nauseous drops or poisonous pills than take the trouble to put in practice the natural remedy of walking. Nor is there an anodyne among all the drugs in the world which is the hundredth part so efficacious, in securingrefreshing, healthful, deliciouSj giorious sleep, as a judicious Halt's journal of Health.

Long life has ever been held a great desideratum. In the Old Testament a long life is proffered as the greatest prize. Under the Christian dispensation eternal life is proclaimed as the greatest of all possible rewards. Methuselah lived 969 years. Horace Mann used to say that he believed these years were the same as ours, for unless man bad been originally endowed with a hundred times his present vitality, his horrible excesses must have long since extinguished the race.

If this remarkable longevity was a miracle, it is easily understood. If not miraculous, it is difficult to comprehend the meaning of the Psalmist, who, very shortly after Methuselah, said that the days of man are three score years and tea. Some commentators think that the antediluvian year was equal to our lunar month, which would make Methuselah 81 years old. Other commentators incline to the opinion that their year was equal to three months. This opinion derives a certain probability from the fact that several eastern nations still reckon time in ihis way.

Coming down to the third century, we find another definite record of longevity given by Unpianus, a Boman Judge. His calculations were receiyed by the Jtloman courts for hundreds of years. His facts are extremely interesting, but I have not room for even a synopsis. The average length of life among Europeans decreased from the time of the Roman supremacy down to about two hundred years ago, when, under the influence of a better civilization, the length of man's life began to increase. At one time during the Dark Ages, alchemists sought, in ways which seem ludicrous enough to us, for some sub- tion, made many apologies, but would not touch the pill.

His opponent swallowed both, and then proved by the apothecary that they were simply common bread. Father Gosmer, of Bavaria, ascribed all diseases to the Devil, contending, from the history of Job, Saul, and others recorded in sacred writ, that Satan, as the great enemy of mankind, has power to embitter our lives by disease. Vast numbers flocked to him; whole cargoes of patients afflicted with nervous and hypochondriac complaints, besieged him in his quarters every stimulated and heated with a wild imagination. Men of literary the philosophers of hurried away by the stream and completely blinded by this sanctimonious iinposter. Count Thun, at Leipsic, pretended to perform miraculous cures on gouty, hypochondriac and hysterical patients, merely by the imposition of his sacred hands.

In my next I will give the latest thoughts of our most advanced thinkers on the true methods by which we may secure the greatest possible longevity. The American Oyster in London. Sewing: Machines and Health. stance which, introduced into the body, might prolong life. "Original matter" was looked upon as the elementary cause of all existence.

Could they find this, they could work miracles; they could change coarse metals into gold; they could perpetuate life indefinitely. In seeking this "original matter," the most extravagant paths were trodden. Millions of vessels, vials and retorts were exposed to great heat, or to the warmth of the sun. They were buried in some dung-hill or other fetid mass, for the purpose, through decomposition, of discovering the "original matter." Gold was then, as now, the most precious of metals. It was thought that the introduction of this into the system might prolong life.

A multitude of busy idiots, in concealed corners, were day and night at work, trying to discover some means of rendering gold potable, and to prevent it from again being converted into it might by Iodine Getting Scarce. The Boston Journal of Chemistry, in an article on Iodine says: This important agent has greatly advanced in price during the past year, and the prospect is that it will be exorbitantly high for a long time. The manufacture of the substance is largely carried on in the British Islands and in France, but it has never been successfully produced in this country. Several years ago a manufactory was established at Bockport in this State; but the price was so low that it could not be made in competition with the English product. It is manufactured from the common sea-weed found in such large quantities upon our coast, and we are inclined to think that a profitable industry might be established in its manufacture, since the price is so greatly enhanced.

It is now used in the fabrication of a popular dye, and this will increase the demand beyond the capacity of supply abroad. Iodide of potassium, so popular as a therapeutic agent, is now so costly as to be almost beyond the reach of physicians, and the photographic artists suffer from the rise. Although iodine is manufactured from fucus, laminaria and other varieties of sea-weeds, it must be remembered that the plants get it from the water of the ocean. That we may show to the reader how sparsely the element is contained in sea water, we will state that although the starch test for iodine is so delicate that one part dissolved in three hundred thousand parts of water is easily detected, yet if we concentrate sea water to the one-hundredth of its original bulk, it affords no characteristic reaction. it is evident, thrrefore, that the proportion of iodine in sea water must be less than one part in thirty millions of water.

It requires more than thirty million pounds of sea water to furnish the marine alga? with one pound of iodine, and yet one house in Glasgow, Scotland, manufactures forty tons, or eighty thousand pounds, of iodine from the weeds every year. 3Tightingalo in Home. its Eastern There are few pleasanter moments in life than those in which, for the first time, we see some object or hear some sound long-desired but previously known only through the imagination. Journeying, some months before, from Damascus to Baalbec, we encamped for the night near a little village iu the valley of the Barada. The furious wind which had been blowing through the day still continued, and almost drowned the voice of the river, swollen with the melting snows of Mount Hermou, and hastening down to the rills and fountains of the Damascus plain.

At length there was a momentary lull in the air, and I lifted the curtain-door of the tent and looked out upon the Syrian night. The sky was deeply blue, and the stars shone with the brilliancy of a northern latitude. Not a sound was to be heard from the village or the camp. Suddenly there burst from the river thicket a song so clear, so rich, so rapturous, that it seemed as if a passing seraph, flying too near the earth, had warbled some strain of paradise above the spot. I knew it the nightingale, and stood breathless, enchanted; when down came the wild wind from Lebanon, and wafted the celestial melody Proctor's IttiHsian Journey.

Memphis has one clergy man, four doctors, and thirteen gamblers to every thousand souls of its population. the body and made a part of it, and thus render it precious and enduring. And it was not among the ignorant alone, but in the splendic- laboratories of the palaces, that this pitiful hallucination prevailed. The most illustrious sovereigns, magistrates and councelors organized grand societies, the object of which was the discovery of "original matter." The common people in Italy, France and Germany often denied themselves the necessaries of life, to purchase a few drops of the tincture of gold, which they swallowed with the most enthusiastic confidence. Paracelsus pretended to have in his possession the "Stone of Immortality," but he died in his fiftieth year.

Again, at another time, it was believed that not only men, but all natural bodies plants, animals, and whole countries, including every individual, place and family, were under the government of some particular planet. "Thurneisen, a great leader in this school, as late as the 17th Century, was invested at Berlin with the offices of printer to the court, bookseller, almanac-maker, astrologer, chemist, and first physician. Messengers daily arrived from the most respectable houses in Germany, Poland, Hungary, Denmark and England, for the purpose of consulting him respecting the fortunes of new-born infants, acquainting him with the hours of their nativity, and soliciting his advice and directions as to their management. Many volumes of this singular correspondence are still preserved in the royal library at Berlin. The business of this fortunate adept increased so rapidly, that he found it necessary to employ a number of assistants, who, together with their master, realized considerable fortunes.

He died in high reputation and favor with his superstitious admirers, and Thurneisen's astrological almanac is yet published in some of the less enlightened provinces of Germany. Other astrologists pretended to catch, to refine and materialize a something in the atmosphere, to reduce it to a liquid form, or that of powder; and then they gave it to men with the promise that i't would insinuate itself into the animal frame, invigorating it, and qualifying it for a long and healthy duration. The French Count of St. Germaine offered the public a certain tea, which he pronounced a "Tea for Prolonging Life." It was swallowed with the greatest avidity all over the continent, but its celebrity was very short-lived. Another French nobleman presented the world with a powder which was to protect life indefinitely.

It had so large a sale, that the originator was soon able to buy immense estates. But this famous powder was composed of such poisonous drugs, that it produced sickness in every one who used it. Count Cagliastro sold at an enormous price the "Balm of Life," and declared he had already attained an age of 200 years; and that with the use of this wonderful medicine he was entirely insensible to poison. When discanting one day at Strasburg before a large audience, he made the statement that he was invulnerable to poisons. A physician who was present, left the room privately and obtained two pills.

Coming back to the hall where the Count was haranguing the people, he ap- pronched him and said "Here, my worthy Count, are two one contains a mortal poison, the other is perfectly innocent. Choose one of them and swallow it, and I engage to take that which you leave. This will be considered a decisive proof of your medical skill, and enable the public to ascertain the efficacy of your extolled elixir." Among the interesting questions discussed in the last report of the State Board of health of Massachusetts, is the effect of the use of the ordinary sewing machines, worked by the treadel or foot-power, upon the health of the female operatives. The patent of Elias Howe, is dated Sept. 10, 1846.

The general introduction of sewing machines into families began about the years of 1850 to 1855, and was not attended at first with any general complaints as to the effect upon the health of the women who used them. As early as 1860, however, the machines came into general use in the "slop shops" and shirt and clothing manufactories, and simultaneously observations began to be made by physicians of certain unhealthy effects accompanying their use. In some instances, cramps of the lower limbs, and irritation of the sheaths and tendons of the extensor and flexor muscles, followed at times by partial paralysis, pointed directly to the use of the sewing machine as the exciting cause. In one case there was a paralysis of the entire surface of the foot, caused by the prolonged contact with the metallic pedal. No subsequent case like this has ever occurred.

In most cases the injury assumed the form of dyspepsia, loss of flesh and strength, pain's in the chest, giddiness and nervous headache, caused by the vibia'oiy motion of the machines. Many also suffered from lucorrhcea, irritation of the pelvis, and diseases peculiar to women. With this information before them, the Board sent inquiries to one hundred and thirty-eight correspondents, representing one hundred and twenty towns in Massachusetts, and several large cities in other States. The conclusion derived by the Board from a comparison of the answers to these inquiries, is, that the treadle sewing machines may be used with very general safety by all women not already feeble or infirm, for three or four hours a day, it performing the amount of sewing usually required in private families. None but very strong and vigorous women, however, are capable of working the full ten hours or more required in factories, and even these grow old rapidly, and fail in health in a very few years.

The Board, therefore, urgently recommend the substitution of steam power for foot-power in these factories. Their position is sustained by the experience of many employers, who say that in abandoning foot power for steampower, they have found not only the best results as to health, but a more vigorous and rapid performance of the work. It is believed that the injurious results attributed to the use of the machine in factories are often due to impure air and excessive labor. Of 319 women, between the ages of 16 and 25 working from 11 to 13 hours a day, 104 complained of fatigue, muscular pains, which were soon removed by rest. Of 226 women, between the ages of 25 and 35, of whom 104 work 11 hours and 102 8 hours, 82 complained of cramps in the legs, 61 of general muscular pains and 29 of pain in the kidneys.

Of 95 women between the ages of 35 and 52, of whom 53 worked from 10 to 11 hours, and 42 from 8 to 10 hours, 18 were found to suffer from cramps in the legs, 14 from general muscular pains, and 61 from pains in the kidneys. In nearly all cases where the work did not exceed three or four hours a day, no bad effects were ascribed to the use of the machine. The Parsons treadle and Hall treadle are also recommended as preferable to the common treadle, even for private use. The use of sewing machines is shown by accurate tables to save about seven- eights of the time of tlie operator, or to furnish seven times more sewing for the same expenditure of time. The objections to them on the score of health are by no means greater than to the use of needle.

Indeed, the amount of exercise and facilities for change of position, and the attitude of the sewer, are better with the machine than with the needle. While, as we learn, the Spaniards are giving fetes in honor of the arrival there of General Sherman, we are having a decided sensation in London over the arrival of a still more distinguished American, namely, the American oyster. The English people have for a long time known of the excellence of the American bivalve only by fame. Last i year a company was formed to import it, and I believe the stock sold well. The present incorporation, however, has not come through that company) but by certain folks who have anticipated its operations.

The company mean, or so it is understood, to have certain ships which shall be made into traveling oyster boats, so that there shall always be a fresh supply. The oysters we are now enjoying have been brought over in barrels, in which they are daily splashed with salt water. But they must have been brought in considerable quantities, as they are to be found in nearly all oyster saloons, and sold at eighteen pence the dozen, which is exactly one-half what we have to pay for the English only English oysters which are not too coarse for anything but cooking. The English know nothing about eating oysters in any but the raw form, with the exception of using the large, coarse and cheap ones as a sauce for fish. The "native oyster," as it is called, is undoubtedly very savory.

The most patriotic American speedily learns to like it, though all foreigners notice the strong flavor of copper it possesses, and are at first repelled by it. Of this copper flavor, strange to say, the English obstinately refuse to kno'w anything. They deny that it has any such flavor. Mr. Frank Buckland, who devotes his life to the culture of oyster- pat and salmon, has lepeatedly described, in the Land and Water, and other journals for which he writes, the oyster-beds where the natives are borfl and bred; and he has shown that they have to be transferred from their original beds at a time when they are so green with copper that they would be poisonous, to other beds, where they become pure enough for human food.

And yet, when you mention the copper taste, your English friend looks at you askance, and has no doubt yoii are trying to belittle the institutions of his country. Nor is he less IPoetr-y. Between the Ebb and Flow. The evening breeze is singing low A lullaby to-day; I have a question I would aski Before it dies away. The pebbles on the beach are dry, The tide has sunken low; A little form is standing there, Between the ebb and flow.

A tangled mass of soft brown hair, Two eyes cast meekly down, A little face the sun has kissed, Two cheeks a little brown; Two little lips that pout and say, "I do not think I know." Two little lips that tell a fib Between the ebb and flow. A little heart that longing waits To know what next 'twill hear; A little face that shyly looks To see if still I'm near. Ah little heart that whispered "Yes," Though pouting lips say JVo," You thought that you'd be asked again Between the ebb and flow. A little face half frightened when I turned to go away, Two little hands that shyly reached As if to bid me stay; A little voice that softly says, "I did not mean that No," A little pride that well was lost Between the ebb and flow. Remedy for Freckles, Snnbnru, Mosquito Kites.

The Dome of'the Capitol. is he less patriotic than the American in vindicating the superiority of his oyster above all others. I -ntis once lunching at Pimm's, the most extensive oyster rooms in London, with an English member of Parliament, and descanting on the wonderlul superiority of the American bivalve, when, on looking up, I perceived on his face absolute incredulity. But, while I was feeling quite helpless before this, the man wlio was opening the oysters for us put in a word: "What the gentleman (meaning me) says is quite true, sir. We had a barrel of American oysters in this house once, and they were better than any we've ever had, before or since." Of course, you will say my member of Parliament gave in a't once after Pimm had spoken.

On the contrary, he declined another dozen of the natives," which I am sure he had contemplated, paid his bill and went out with a withering smile, and, I suspect, takes his luncheons elsewhere. I have observed since the American oysters have been on sale that their excellence is chiefly appreciated by the oyster openers. At the saloon at the head of the Haymarket the man who opened the first one for me held it up, turned it round, pretended he had something to scrape about it with his knife, but really feasting his eyes, and utterly unmindful that he was keeping me from embracing a dear old friend whom I had not seen for many years. When the second was opened- was the very first lot that had ever been in the mute astonishment with which he had viewed the first would not do for the magnificent specimen of the New York bay which was revealed. "Bill," he cries to a companion a little way off, "Bill, jest take a look at that here hoys- ter afore it goes Bill comes over with his eyes wide open.

"Wut's that?" is his question. "That's a Hamerican." "Good Lord ejaculates Bill, as he sees the bivalve disappear. When the dozen are fairly open, the men taste one and discuss the subject, and they agree that there was never such a bi valvular koh i-noor or crown jewel in the coronet of Neptune. Yet passing by the sample place nearly a week afterward, the man told me with surprise, Henglish people don't like them. That's why you are, getting them so cheap." But when theEnglish- man goes beyond the raw oysters, when he is gradually initiated into the stewed, the fried, and all those artistic preparations which help in the progress of our institutions at Washington, why then you may expect to hear him advocating the substitution for the British lion of an oyster London Letter to the Cincinnati Commercial.

Freckles indicate an excess of iron in the blood, we are told, the sun acting on the particles in the skin as it does on indelible ink, bringing out the color. A very simple way of removing them is said to be as follows Take finely powdered nitre (saltpetre) and apply it to the freckles by the finger moistened with water and dipped in the powder. When perfectly done and judiciously repeated, it will remove them effectually and without trouble. An old English prescription for the skin is to take half a pint of skim-milk poor as to be into it as much cucumber as it will cover, and let it stand an hour; then bathe the face and hands, washing them off with fair water when the cucumber extract is dry. The latter is said to stimulate the growth of hair where it is lacking, if well and frequently rubbed in It would be worth while to apply it to high foreheads and bald crowns.

Bough skins, arising from exposure to the winds in riding, rowing, or yatch- ing, trouble many ladies, who will be glad to know that an application of cold cream or glycerine at night, washed off with fine carbolic soap in the morning, will render them presentable at the without looking Varieties. The richer a man makes his food, the poorer he makes his appetite. Honey bees are winged merchants. They cell their honey. Judy's shop boy won't get up in the morning.

He says its sleep year. MadameThiers.thewife of the French i President, is making efforts to abolish tne custom of wearing false hair. The Pennsylvania Editorial Association are to visit Erie this summer upon invitation of the Councils of that city. "You seem to walk more erect than usual, my dear friend." "Yes I have lately been straitened by circumstances." A Boman Catholic priest in Cincinnati refused to receive a contribution of fifty dollars from a parishioner because he was a liquor-dealer. A Tennessee woman, unable to procure a pardon for her son after he had escaped from prison, took him back herself, and surrendered him to the turnkey.

A soap mine is the latest reported discovery in Colorado. The mineral soap is described as of a dim color, about the hardness of chalk, and forms a very perfect lather, while it effectually removes all stains and grease spots from clothing After washing it leaves the skin soft and smooth, while the odor is quite pleasant. The Hazardvillepowder works.in Connecticut, are now sending about twenty tons of powder to market daily. A brush with England or Spain would make this trade somewhat livelier still. Such items as the above frequently find their way into print.

There is "less gunpowder used in time of war than at other times. A new lighthouse, forty-two feet in height and forty-two feet in diameter of pounds intended to be erected on the Thimbles the entrance to Hampton Boads, to take the place of the WiUoughby Spit Light- boat, has been inspected in Washington and will be immediately shipped to its destination. At a father and mother recently went away in the evening, leaving at home their only child, a boy of four years old. The child begged piteously not to be left alone, because he was afraid of wolves and bears, but the parents insisted, and on their return after several hours absence, found the child had become insane from fright. The Secretary of the Navy has written a letter to Gen.

Garfield recommending the appropriation of for the purchase of two large trial guns to be converted from smoothbore into rifled guns, for the purpose of conducting a. 9 i i i ifJ i i Jr M. "CAJ.CQ women who follow the hounds, blowsy of experiments, with the view of deter- and burned. The simplest way to obvi- mining whether the smooth-bore guns ate the bad effects of too free sun and of tne navv can De increased in strength and efficiency by rifling. The matter wind, which are apt on occasion to revenge themselves for the neglect shown them by the fair sex too often, is to rub the face, throat, and arms well with cold cream or pure almond before going out.

With this precaution, one may come home from a berry party or a sail without a trace of that ginger-bread effect too apt to follow these pleasures. Cold cream made from almond oil, with no lard or tallow about it, will answer every end proposed by the use of buttermilk, which young ladies can hardly prefer as a cosmetic on account of its odor. A very delicate and effective preparation for rough skins, eruptive diseases, cuts, or ulcers, is found in a mixture of one ounce of glycerine, half an ounce of rosemary, and twenty drops of carbol-'c acid. In those dreaded irritations of the skin occurring in Summer, such as hives or prickly heat, this wash gives soothing relief. The carbolic acid at once neutralizes the poison of blood which causes the sore, purifies and disinfects the wound or blotch, and heals it rapidly.

A solution of this acid in glycerine made much stronger, say fifty drops to an ounce of glycerine, forms a protection from mosquitoes if applied at night. Though many people consider the remedy equal to the disease, constant use very soon reconciles one to the creosotic odor of the carbolic acid, especially if the pure orystalized form is used, which is far less overpowering in its fragrance than that commonly put up. Those who dislike it too much to use it at night will find the sting of the bites almost miraculously cured and the blotches removed by touching them with the mixture in the morning. Babies and children should be touched with it to relieve the pain they feel from insect bites, and do not know how to express except by worrying. Two or three drops of attar of roses in the preparation disguises the smell so as to render it tolerable to human beings, though not so to Harper's Bazaar.

Facts lor tlie Mingle. to the committee on Reading in the Cars. Cagliastro struggled with the situa- The dome of the Capitol at Washington, is the most ambitious structure in America. It is 108 feet higher than the Washington monument at Baltimore, 68 feet higher than that of Bunker Hill, at Boston, and 23 feet higher than the Trinity Church tower at New York. It is the only considerable dome of iron in the world.

It is a vast hollow sphere of iron, weighingS, 000, OOOpounds, orabout equal to 1000 laden coal cars, which holding four tons each, would reach two miles and a half Directly over your head is a figure in bronze "America," weighing 14,982 Ibs. The pressure of the iron dome upon its piers and pillars is 13,477 pounds to the square foot. St. Peter presses nearly 20,006 pounds more to the square foot, and St. Genevieve, at Paris, 66,000 Ibs.

more. It would require to crush the supports of our dome, a pressure of 755,160 pounds to the square foot. The cost was about The new wings cost $6,500,000. The architect, Thomas U. Walter, has a plan for rebuilding the old central part of the capitol, and enlarging the park, to cost about A distinguished oculist says, in reference to the habit of reading in the cars, the constant motion and oscillations of the car render it impossible to hold the book in one distance from the eye is constantly varying, and no matter how slight this variation may be, it is instantly compensated for by the eye, thus keeping the organ constantly employed accomodating itself to distance.

This becomes eyes have a sort of weary, heavy feeling, and, if the reading is persisted in, soon become bloodshot and painful. We have often observed young misses, intently engaged in the perusal of some romance, while upon a rapidly-moving railway train, who have only been able to fiuish their story with perceptible dis omfort. We have noticed them rubbing their eyes, shifting their positions, and holding their book at various distances from the eye, making the greatest effort to see with eyes that have already been fatigued beyond endurance. Such practices lead to serious injury to the eyes, and it is not unfrequeutly the case that the oculist is called upon to prescribe for a patient who has paralysis of acuom- odation of the eyes, produced by reading in a railway car. It is said the only steam-plowing apparatus in successful operation in the United States is on Louisiana plantation.

A French philosopher has lately brought to light, some curious social statistics, compiled from the records of eleven years, in France, Belgium and Holland, relative to the longevity of married and single men, which furnish fresh proofs of the danger of living. It appears that married men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty years are far more apt to live than unmarried men, the ratio of deaths being, in their favor, as four to ten and a half in every thousand persons. Here is a powerful argument for early marriages, if the law of self-preservation becomes their advocate; but a Little further development of the records, shows that, at the same age, widowers die at the rate of twenty- two in every thousand, being twice as perishable as their unmarried brethren. When the age advances to between thirty and thirty-five years, the case is reversed. Married men die at the rate of eleven, and single men only five in every thousand, the latter nearly recovering the ground lost in the previous semi-decade.

Unfortunate widowers, however, are still at a disadvantage, dying at the rate of nineteen in every thousand. These figures open a wide field for drawing inferences and moral lessons. Evidently dangers hedge about the life of man, but the chief and most apparent warning conveyed by the facts of the case is the necessity of a man's carefully preserving tl life of a wife, if he has one, since her loss increases by about fourfold theimminence of an end to his own career. has been referred appropriations. A letter was recently received at Jacksonville, from the Pacific Coast, addressed to "Hon.

ex-Governor Joseph Duncan, Jacksonville, Morgan county, 111." Governor Duncan died in 1844, and his correspondent was consequently twenty-eight years behind the times. A few weeks ago a letter was advertised in the Quincy letter list addressed to "Hon. Bichard M. Young," formerly a citizen of Quincy and Commissioner of Public Lands under Polk, but who has been dead about twenty years. Speaking of the great and good P.

S. Gilmore, a wild man in the Boston Commercial Bulletin gives the following as the new words to be sung to the "Marseillaise" at the Jubilee: "Allan ortoux gallant patriqnesse Guilmaur, isplucquise grete toussee, Theliste seau mehis succes Bigretre stil.oui pres;" and then favors his readers with the following translation: "All honor to gallant PATRICK S. GILMORE his pluck is great, to say The least; so may success Be greater still, we pray." Mr. Beechersays: "I love music, from a Jew's-harp to David's harp. I love everything that is musical.

No band goes through the street that I do not go with it in thought. Even the more humble who perform under false appearances, I publicly confess that I have sympathy for them too. I love music. Give me the French, give me the me the German, give me the wild airs of Scotland, give me the wails from Ireland, give me our own negro minstrels' music; they all find, in different degrees, a response from my heart." A San Francisco lawyer sued a paper of that city for damages to the amount of $50,000 for calling him a shyster. The plaintiff conducted his own case, and was thus served by one of the witnesses for the defence: do you call a shyster? such men as you.

you know of any agreement between certain attorneys and the police officers, about getting business. came to me once and offered to divide if I would get you cases. The jury returned a verdict without leaving their seats, and the sum recovered by the plaintiff is expressed by the figures given above, with the 5 left out. The present year seems to be regarded by medical men as an exceptional one for the prevalence of diseases of a malignant type. The cause of this is not definitely known; it may be some atmospheric deficiency or the excess of some element in it.

But it is a well established fact that epidemics of every kind are checked by strict at-, tention to sanitary laws, and spread rapidly when these laws are neglected. Fevers of various kinds are known to be caused by imperfect drainage, ill- ventilated rooms, and a general want of cleanliness. And even where general cleanliness is not neglected, the exhalations arising from a damp cellar or from a stagnant pool in the vicinity will engender disease. A careful inspection of houses by the occupants is a great safeguard, if discovered difficulties are promptly remedied. And now that the time of year leads us to hope for spring weather, we would suggest that Indies interest themselves somewhat about this matter, and personally examine their dwellings and surroundings, and assure themselves that every thing about them is in as cleanly and wholesome a condition as is Harper's Bazar.