Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1873 — The Brain Worry. [ARTICLE]

The Brain Worry.

At any of us prav to be delivered from sudden death, and do we worry ourselves into it? If we do, can we kelp it? To most of us it Is not given to choose pur lives, lo avoid the rough places, to gently shoulder to one side disagreeable facts. AVe must climb over the rocks though they hurt us sore, and the difficulties, however they may annoy us, must be met with brain fret and wear until they are conquered, or we have passed them. Tliev are as real, living, annoying as any tangible ache or pain could be; as Bruising and Irritating as tlie peas in the shoes of the pilgrims of old. Nervous health is one tiling, and moral health and purely physical health is quite another and different thing. Calm and steady mental work is conducive to long life; but nervous emotion, mental work that is a-constant urging, and, at the same time, is an unhinging of the even tenor of the mind, eats away the brain faster than any mental labor, no matter bow hard, tliat is systematic. As men do not really die of heart disease as often as supposed, but of apoplexy, or congestion of tlie lungs, so they do not die of brain work, but of brain worry. Scott died of it; Southey, Swift, Horace Greeley, aikl probably Thackeray. —London Times. - 1 TiieTkii’mph ok Love.— On Sunday last a couple that had eloped from one of the schools at Paris, came to a preacher on the Red River, in this county, duly cqutppetl with a Heense, and desired him to marry them. Seeing that the young lady coiilil not be above thirteen years of age, and tlie young gentleman not more than seventeen, the minister objectod to tie tire knotconnubial. The hopeful pair, not to be disconcerted in this (their third! attempt to commit matrimony, proposed to cross over,the river and marry on tire other side, after thq Indian fashion; but as there was no boat to be had this proposition was about to come to naught, when a novel idea struck the party. A large cottonwood log was rolled down tne bank and- into the water, being moored to tire bank by a long rope, and on thte log th* resolute pair took-shipping, and after they had drifted far enough out into the stream to be considered out of Texas, the parson mounted a large stump in the edge of the water, and said the ceremony—Bonham [Texas) Enterprise,