Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-02-19
who are the Longest Lived!

who are the Longest Liycdl
There appears to be wide difference
of opinion between some of our most in
tclligent and respectable cotemporaries in
regard to the subject, who are the longest
lived of nations We copy some of their
remarks:
The Americans are the longest lived of
people, Notwithstanding all the humbug
about the great age 70 which the English
live, their superior stamina, etc. And
the longest lived of Americans are to be
found here, in this very New England,
although such mess of stuff Is said about
the Yankees working themselves to death,
being half starved, and depriying them.
selves of the enjoymcnls of life, thus tend
ng to abbrcyiatc it; and despite the ar
guments which are based upon the change
ability of the climate, the east wind, and
all that. These are but windy argu-
ments. Statistics tell different story.
- Boston Evening Ledger.
Americans are not the longest lived
people, and we much mistake if we are
destined to be Iong-livcd nation, even!
The Irish, of whom the writer claims 10
be a descendant, are the longest lived
but we don't know whether to attribute it
to their climate or the simple diet to
which the general poverty confines them.
I Charleston Is. g. Mercury.
You should have confined yourself,
brother Mercury before you delivered
that sapient opinion. Humboldt has placed
it beyond doubt the mountaineers of
Peru can contest the palm with death
longer than anybody else.-[ New Or
leans Picayune.
That's a lie. Humboldt says no such
thing anywhere New York Evange-
list. Tut, tut, tut. What language for
an "evangeIist" to use Can there be
any wonder that naughty boys curse and
swear, when they have such examples
from such quarters?-[ ED. LIFE Illus
TRATED.
Keep cool, gentlemen. or none Of you
will be long-livcd. We believe the great
est age of man to be obtained by the Hin
distances, and refer the curious in such
matters to Buttons Interesting account of
the people, New York Herald.
Our American friends are having
dispute as 10 what people present the most
numerous instances of advanced age in
man. Cold regions, we believe, 10 be
the most favorable to the proongation of
life, but we have nothing to disprove that
the Dutch live longer than any other race
too long for their own good, perhaps
London Times.
The London Times has been having
fling at the Dutch, referring 10 The great
age TO which some Of the Mynheers at
tain, though nothing is mentioned about
old Rip Van Winkle The Times is fa-
nous for wholesale slurs upon nations,
though Just now it has not word to say
against lis dear neighbor, France. If we
were asked who lived the longest Of
all people, we should say the Patagonians,
for numbers Of them stand full eight feet
! high Boston Post. =
The Boston Post thinks the Patagoni-
ans live the longest Of all mankind. That
may be but it is certain that the inhabi-
tants of the Himmaleh Mountains live the
highest. Boston Herald.
That may be, too, neighbor; but a still
surer thing is, whether the Yankees live
the longest or not, they are destined to
live the broadest, for eventually their in
s,itutions will spread throughout the earth.
II Parlor Casket.
All right, gentlemen, bat our opinion is
that those Of our subscribers who pay
their subscription promptly in advance
will live longest. If they don't, it will
not be that we don't sincerely wish them
"long life and prosperity. = Weekly
Gazette.
o short-sighted morrals and laundering
newspapers Away with all this non
sense about high winds, cold regions, no
climates, tall mountains, deep valleys
English lords, French ladies', Yanke'
men, Dutch women, Irish girls, Peruvian
boys and Patagonian giants. Good dc
fions live forerer, Those live longest VIII
do the best. ave live in deeds, nc
years. Life Illustrated.
, He who has many friends has none,