Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-03-07
A NEW THEORY FOR PRoLoNGINe
LIFE

DR., Julins Vondem Fiskhaveilher died
very recently in Prussia, at the advanced
age Of enc hundred and nine Years. He
has left behind him scientific treatiss
upon the art of prolonging life, the main
feature Of which appears to b. that, in.or.
der 10 exist in harmony with the electric
currents ofshe earth. we should always
sleep with our heads toward the north
pole. A great demand for com passes will
result from this suggestion, one indeed a
society has slrsady been organised to test
the truth Of the doctors suggestions, and
We doubt not at least twenty thousand
Prussians are every night horizontally
located according to tlis ,.T prescription.
The doctor cannot be accused of mercena.
~ motives in making his discovery known
and his advanced age gives basis for
those inclined to place confidence in his
theory. for it is certainly very harmless
one, provided that length Of days is in
reality boon worth striving after Ca.
g'iostro in the last century discovered sn
elixsr which insured perpetual and never
fading beauty. and frequently passed him.
self of for person two hundred years old
but it is not recorded that any of the hun
dreds Of men aud women who patronized
the imposter ever added year to their:
allotted sum. # + Il u..r
The only secret regarding life which is
worth discovering. is the art of svailiag
ourselves Of the ears we live upon this
globe to make life happy and acceptable.
We will admit the value of religious
life. but in this busy age We sacrifice 60
much to the spirit Of accumulation that
we wear out the machine by perpetual mo-
tion. We don't stop long enough, to, oil
up. and when breathing holiday eomcs..
to about ninety nine persons in hundred
it is hard work to accomplish ito passage
Within few years. we have given more
attention in this country to the necessity
Of reaction and rest. and We believe that
{. proper considerations Of the require
8 ments Of hours and relaxation would be
. Of more value in proloDging life and msk-
ing life worthy of its great mission. than
giving particular attention to the relative
position Of our heads and the north pofs;
= The elixir Of perpetual youth is not "a
). article whick can be put up IN bottles.
There are seme very old men who are not
yet thirty. and some very young men are
still living at the advanced sge of sixty
{ or seventy. Our worthy fellow-citizen;
f Father Taylor. has young heart. and
4 there are scores of others who are IS alive
to their duties now as they were when
;. their step was little lighter, and their
eyes less used to spcctacles. They kecI
their interest in affairs, and though pre-.
;. pared for their long journey. are not SC
a selfish as to forget that they owe some
thing to the generation which is following
so close in the great procession which il
o p,ssing along We may keep our heads
10 toward the North pole if we desire. and
e absorb the electric current from the earth
n but after all, the poet gives US Il true
y, idea of life when he writes ai,. ..,
I'VE live in deeds. not years in thought
not breaths
|. In feelings not in figures on 4 dial -a
e We should count time by heart-throbs H,
most lives
d Who thinks most. feels the noblest acts th,
hNst -