Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1855-05-02
MORTALITY AMONG BACHELORS.

The forlorn condition of bachelors has
always been favorite theme for ladies,
editors and other wits to expatiate upon.
The untidy room, the buttonless shirts, the
stockings full of holes, and the thousand other
Inconvenience of the unmarried state are
familiar, in this way, to the most obtuss Of
us all. -.
The poor bachelors have, in fact, hard
time of it. They have been ridiculed by the
sex, and sometimes taxed by Legislators, and
now staticians deal them !" the unkindest cut
of all" by proving that they die earlier than
married men. The celebrated DR.. Caspar,
of Berlin, estimates the mortality amoug
bachelors, between the ages Of thirty to
forty-ive, at twenty.seven per 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 bachelorsA
attain the age of forty, there are seventy
eight married men, difference of nearly ten
to one in favor of the latter. At the age Of
sixty there are forty-eight married men to
twenty-five bachelors; at seventy, eleven
bachelors to twenty seven married men;
and at eighty nine married men to three
bachelors. No bachelor, it is said, ever
lived to be 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 bache.
lor will have the more irregular habits.
Gentlemen, when single, are twice as apt,
Dick Swiveller has it, "to pass the rosy"
as when they are married; and especially
to do it into what Burns calls the wee
sma' hours ayont the twal'" Ten bachelors
sing owe wont go home till morning."
where one married man vocalizes in the
same way. No doubt to bachelor taste all
this is very delightful. But brandy and
water, cards, ct i'd omne genus, especially
after midnight, take care to compensate
in due season, for the fun that
has been extracted from them T6ey may
cast out the blues, SO incident to tRsbache.
lor state, for the time being but " the blues"
thus cast out invariably return, bringing
" seven devils worse than befote;" and
among them are gout, fever and rheuma.
Iism, if not delirium tremens and death.
Too often, indeed, the bachelor lives on the
capital Of life, snd hence exhausts his bank,
when the married man is still! well to do il,
A MIRACULOUS WARN1NG.-Some week
or two ago strange thing is said to have
occurred in Kemper county. A woman
gave birth to child covered all over with
hair. 1t lived three hours, and spoke three
distinct words" seuen gears famine" The
straDgest thing about it is, half the popula.
lion Of Kemper believed, and are struck
with terror at the portentous warning, which
they are said firmly to believe is a solution
of the purposes of Providence in visiting the
land with such strange seasons.-Quitman
(Ala.) lntelligcncer.
WE'LL Cuffee," said master to his col
ored servant, "wnat were you doing at meet
ing this afternoon ?"
"Doing Massa! Taking notes" was his
reply.
You taking gssnotes" exclaimed his mas.
"sartin massa; all the gentlemen take
notes."
"Well let me see them," said he.
Cuffee thereupon produced sheet of pa.
per, and his master found it scrawled over
with all sorts of marks and lines as if doz.
en- of spiders dipped in ink had marched
over it.
"Why, this is all nonsense" said the min.
lister as he looked at the notes.
"Well massa," Cuf1ee replied, al thought
so all the time you was preaching"
MILWAUKEE, the big town of Wisconsin,
is only twenty years old, and it has popu-
lation this day of 10000. 1t was laid out
in 1885; in 1888 the population was 700;
in ls47, $4,000; in 1850, 10000; in 1855,
10000. Banking capital amounts to $780,
600, but they say the business requires $S,-
100000. The manufactures last year a.
mounted in value to S4,6O0,0O0, against $2,-
100000 in 1858 showing that the amount
has doubled in two years. The imports
were sll 100000; the exports S7,7O9,OO0.
4 Coop PuN.-One of the wittiest byous
in the way of punning was perpetrated a
few nights ago by. gentleman of Ports.
mouth, at the Ladies fair.
A lady wished seat. A portly, hand
some gentleman brought one instanter and
seated the lady.
ooh, you're Jewell" said she.
ooh no." replied he, 81 am a ajeUeller,
have just set a jeuel."
CONVERSE not with liar or a swearer,
or man of obscene or wanton language;
for either he will corrupt you, or at least il
will hazard your reputation to be one of the
like making; and if it doth neither, yet it
will fill your memory with such discourses
that will be troublesome 10 you in aftertime;
and the returns of the remembrance of the
passages which you have long since heard
of this nature, will haunt you when your
thoughts should be better employed.-Sir
Matthew Hale.
COSTLY WoRsu1r.-Church going has
become very expensive matter in San
Francisco. At a sale of pews, several sold
as high as twelve hundred dollars, equiva-
lent to about 1913 per Sunday.
CUsTARD, BAKED. Boil pint of cream
with mace and cinnamon; when cold, take
four eggs, leaving out two of the whites, a
little rose and orange-hower water. little
white wine, nutmeg, and sugar to your taste .
mix them we'll together, and, bake them IN