Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1858 — Longevity of Persons Engaged in Different Occupations. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Longevity of Persons Engaged in Different Occupations.

The Legislature of Massachusetts have h ill some tables prepared to show the mean ; average-of lite attained by individuals engaged in various employments, and from which we cull the following interesting facts: BaiilC officers are the longest -lived, their averug'’' being 68 to 76; next judges and justices, 66, and then agriculturists, whose average is from 63 to 93; clergymen, coopers, m-ii tie men, public officers, and shipwrights average from and between 55 and 60; blacksmiths, butchers, calico printers, lawyers, hatters:, merchants, physicians, and rope•makeYs attain ages varying from 50 to 55; carpenters, masons, and traders live from 45 to 50; bankers, jewelers, imanulactin’ers, mechanics, p iinl’ers, shoemakers, ami tailors average from 40 to 45; machinmusicians, and live from 33 to 40: and clerks, operatives, and teachers are the shgirtest-livcd of a! 1 , being only from 30 to 35. Of course, it is not necessary that a person who follows any oi" the above occu--patijms should die at a definite age, but still tlie table gives a very good test as to the effect of employment in wearing out the human frame. Rather Warm.—We find from exchanges that we have not had any warm weather Here yet. To show this wa clip the following from the South Side Democrat publish. 'd at Petersburg, Virginia t “We amused ourselves yesterday, during the middle of the day, by roasting eggs in the back window of our sanctum. It was a decided improvement on the old way. The thermometer, in the mean time, standing five feet high.” hear that Colonel Walker is endeavoring to infuse a “g-nerous confidence” in o the minds of his supporters, and talks ot 1.004 t<>' 1,500 mhjirity-, Too modest by h.flf. The Piesi'lfiut of the whic\ notnin ted J idge Stuart two years ago, talked of 5,00 Q majority. And the Cok>n(?l is destini’d to “follow in the footsteps L's his predecessor”—up S ilt river. Marriage ;—Get married! (let the risk be what it may; it gives dignity to your profession, ifisp res couii leijce and commands respect. With a w fe, the lawyer is more trusty,' the doctor more esteemed, the mechanic! swings his hammer with increased po , ei;, and .•shoves the plane with u more dexfrerijms hand; a man withoilt m wife is no mini nt all. She nurses him while sick, she watches for him in heilth. Gentlemen, get a wife; a pretty one if you like them the >best —ii good one when she is to be found. CO - '! 1 anybody i:> this section of country has lost a bay horse, fiye or six years old, about fifteen and a half hands high, with black inane and tail, hm she lor they may obtain Some information concerning it by nddresshig a letter.to the Sheriff’ of Fulton county,!Atlekee, Ohio. Ofj“Frogs are now a regularly-quoted article ii the Ne.v York market. T.v li t report rqads: “Frogs are in demand .and sell .-.t Si per dozen. These are fjast .1 om ng a favorite dislt, and the demand for them is becoming constantly greater.”; A True Sentiment.—The true proof of love is respect, not froedom.

THE RENSSELAER GAZETTE, RENSSELAER. IND. WEDNESDAY, AUG, ST 18, 1858.