Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1855 — Mortality Among Bachelors. [ARTICLE]

Mortality Among Bachelors.

The forlorn condition of bachelors has always been a favorite theme among ladies, editors and other wits to expatiate upon. The untidy rooms, the shirt, the stock* ings full of boles, and the thousand other inconveniences of the unmarried state are familiar, in this wuy, to the most obtuse of us all. The poor Bachelors have, in fact, a hard time of it. They have been rediculed by the sex;, and sometimes taxed, by legislators, and now staticianj deal “foe unkindest cut of all/’ by proving, that they die earlier than maiTied men.. The celebrated CaspjH' ? of Berlin, estimates the mortality ameng bachelbrs, between the ages of thirty to fortyfive, at twenty-sevep ppr cent; while the mortality among married men between the same ages, is only eighteen per cent. As life advances the difference becomes even more striking. Where forty-one bachelors attain the age of forty, there arc seven-ty-eight married meti, a difference of nearly two to one in favor of the latter. At the age of sixty, there are forty-eight married men to twentytwp bachelors; at seventy, eleven bachelors to twenty-seven married men; to three bachelors. No bachelor, it is said, ever lived to be a hundred. The reason for the comparatively short life of the bachelor is obvious. Of two men, exactly similar in other respects, except that one is married and the other not, the bachelor will have the more irregular habits. Gentlemen, when single, are twice as apt, as Dick Swiveller has it, “to pass the rosy,” as when they are married; and especially to do it in what Burns calls “the wee sma’ hours ayont the twal. Ten bachelors sing “we won’t go home till morning,” where one married man vocalizes in the same way. No doubt, to bachelor tast, all this is very delightful. But.brandy and water, cards, et id otnne genus, especially after midnight, take care to compensate themselves, in due season, for the fun that has been extracted from them. They may cast out the “blues,” so incident to the bachelor state, for the time being; but “the blues” thus cast out invariably return, bringing “seven devils worse than before;” and among them are gout, fever and rheumatism, if not delirium tremens and death. Too often, indeed, .the bachelor lives on the capital of life, and hence exhausts his bank, when the married man is still well to do in health, happiness and longevity.— Phil. Ledger. oC7*Let the farmer, or the gardener, select some refuse lot, Or a part of a lot, of sod ground. Do not plow it, but when planting time comes, say ocuvcen xtMii oi iviay anti isi oi juHe-, n] ace potatoes on tfa grass of said ground, from 12 to 18 inches apart — using about the same amount or perhaps a little more seed than is Used in the ordinary way of plantiritg. — Cover the ground thus sown with coarse straw, corn stalks, leaves, or any other refuse matter of the kind, to the depth of six to ten inches—just enough to kill the grass and prevent its growing. The potato vines will find way through this covering without difficulty, and form a mat, which will prevent the straw or other covering from being blown off by the wind. Potatoes planted in this way will need no plowing or hoeing. In the fall, when the vines are killed . with foe frost, take a strong rake and uncover the potatoes which Will be found covering the ground, large,dry, and clean for the tie, without washing. The ground Will be found to have lost none of its virtue, but wifi in fact, be enriched by the process. The labor prescribed, it will be seen, is much less than will be required by the old method of plowing, planting, hoeing digging.— The result will be in nine cases out of ten, a much larger crop and so much nicer potatoes —ana what is better StiH, they will not be subject to foe rot. , (Cr’Borrowed garments seldom fit well. Haste often trips up its own heels. Men often blush to hear what they are hot ashamed th act. Pride is a flower that grows in the devil’s garden.. More are drowned in the wine cups than in the ocean. He' who buys to many superfluities may be obliged to sell his necessaries. A man that hoards riches awl enjoys jfoem pot, is like an ass that carries! gold and cats thistles. ' . ’ <