The Portage County Democrat. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-07-06
VOLUME VI.---NUMBER Is.

occasion not one of them offered to give me
another 1t has been recorded by some anti
connubisl wag, that when two widowers were
once condoling together on the recent bereave-
ment of their wives, one of them exclaimed.
with sigh. Well may bewail my loss, for
1 had so few differences with the dear deceas-
ed. that the last day of my marriage was as
happy as the first There I surpass you.
said his friend, for the last day of mine 'cas
happier =
Doctcrs-it's said-win Differ,
And perhaps never more widely than upon
the proposition, what is woman
An exquisite production of nature, between
a rose and an angel. according to q German
poet; the fem ale of human species, accoding
to the biologists the redeemiug portion of
hum anity, accordingto politer fact and expe-
rience Woman is treasure of which the
profligate and the unmarried can never appre-
ciate the full value. for he who possesses many
does net possess one Malherbe says 10 his
Letters, that the Creator NAV have repented
the creation of man. but that be had no rea-
son TO repent having made woman. Who will
deny this and which of US does not feel
though in due subjection to a holier religion.
the devotion of Anacreon, who, when he was
asked why he addressed SO many of his hymns
to women, aud SO few to deities. answered,
: Because women are my deities p
A Jury that Could Ag-ee,
As puncb SAYS: There is no greater plague,
or evil, than the everlasting non-aereement of
modern Juries They agree to disagree upon
points of law upon points of conscience, and
upon no points ut ALL But Punch, ever in.
ventive. suggests remedy. He says let the
jury consist of ladies As it is proverbial
that women never do disagree, there would
not be the slightest difiulty in securing always
unanimous verdict. The whole twelve
would vote as one woman-more especially if
one of their own sex was being tried. Besides,
the mere prospective horror of dozen WON.
en- being all locked up together, without cup
of tea. or q stocking TO mend, or baby to
play with, or novel to thumb. would force
them to agree long before they had looked at
the prisoner, even to see whether he was good
looking or not.
A Singular Table.
A table inserted in a paper in the Assurance
Magazine exhibits results of rather start
ling character. In the first two qunquennial
periods. 2o-25 and 25-30. the probability of
a widower marrying in year is nearly three
times as great as that of bachelor At thir.
ty it is nearly four times as great; from thirty
ITO thirty.five it is Eve times as great and it
increases. until at sixty the chance of wild
over marrying in a year is eleven times as
great as that of bachelor 1t is curious to
remark from this table, how confirmed eth.
er class becomes in its condition in life-how
little likely. after few years. is bachelor to
break through bis settled habits and solitary
condition; and, on the other hand. how readily
in proportion does husband contract sec
ond marriage who has been deprived prema-
thirty, the probability of a bachelor marrying
| in year diminishes in most rapid ratio. =
The probability at thirty five is not mnch more
than half that at thirty. and nearly the same
proportion exists between each quinquennial
period afterwards.
Young and Old America.
Bows, when they are boys. are oneer enough
How many ridiculous notions they have, and
what singular desires, hlch in after life change
and shape themselves into characteristics =
Who remembers when he would have sold BIZ
birth right for rocking-horse, and his new
suit of clothes for monkev Who forget
the sweet.faced girl. older than himself, agains
whose golden hair he leaned and wept his erie
Iaway ? Who recoects when, in imagination
to be circus rider appeared greater than tt
be prince; and how jealousy he watched tn
little fellows who wore spapgled jackets, AM
turned somersets, and longed to become lik
them If memory preserve not these capaci
ties, or something similar, the boy is lost in th
; man. Happy visions they come but once
Some carry the idiosyucracies of boyhood wit
= them ever to old age; these are technical
called old boys 1t is well enough to che
: sh the animus of youth, but not its folIies; il
: freshness of feeling but not its absurdities an
error. 1t has been humorously said that W
love our mothers and sweetmeats at three year
of age; our fathers at six; at ten, our hol
day; at fifteen, dress; at twenty five. our wives
J. at forty, our children; at sixty, ourselves
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