Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1892 — What Produces Death. [ARTICLE]

What Produces Death.

Some one says that few men die of age. Almost all persons die of disappointment, personal, mental or bolily toil or accident The passions kill men sometimes even suddenly. The common expression, “chokod with passion,” has iitt e exaggeration in it, for even though not suddenly fata!, strong passions shorten life. Strongbodied men often die young—weak men live longer than tho strong, for the strong use-their strength ana tho weak have none to use. The latter take-eare-of- themselves, the former not. As it is with the body, so it is with the mind and temper. Tho strong are apt to break, or, like the candle, run; the weak hum out. The inferior animals, which live tempo rate lives, have generally their prescribed term of years. Tho horse lives 25 years, the ox 15 or 20. tho lion about 20, the hog 10 or 12, the rabbit 8. the guinea pig 6or 7. The numbers all bear proportion to the time the animal takes to grow its full sizo. But man. of all animals, is one that seldom comes up to the average. Ho ought to live a hundred years.—Scientific American.