Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-02-25

AppLETON's JOURNAL points out the fact
tba, it is not always the most robust and ap-
mrcu,ly the most healthy men who live the
longest:
Twenty years ago everybody would have
given Forrest the chance of prolonged life over
Macrealy, his great rival, for Macready was
gauut feeble excessively nervous and irritable,
and severe student. But Macready lives at
the age Of eighty, and Forrest is dead at the
age of Slxty>M. When the poet Bryant was
tblrty-eight bis health was feeble. He was a
sufferer trOu dyspepsia, and gave premonltlons
OF an early demise Who then supposed he
would outhve his fre ID Cooper, spen d
specimen Of robust health, and that at near
eighty be would be enjoying hale and hearty
old age, while SO many Of his compeers-lrv-
Ing, Pauldiug, Haeck, Willis, Morris, Cooper,
'erpIanck be sleeping in their graves
The lean, the sickly and dyspeptic need not
lay the tattering uuction to their souls that
IN the great majority of cases they live longest
because the strongest 1t is, in their case, 10
survival Of the i,test.' Left in state 4
nature they would soon die out. The Ameri
'sn indians We're, when this country Was first
settled fine, stawart, vigorous race OF met
and women, simply from the fact that all the
weaker members OF the community pcrshed II
infancy The chroncally ailing may thank
civilization that they are alive ; aud they may
thauk very frequently the very diseases that
threaten to kill them for their length Of days.
They will take precautions more robust man
will neglect The very effect Of oversraln vii
make them careful of any tax Of the vita
iorccs In the two cases above, Bryant has
been noted all his life for his attention to sys-
teuatlc exercises and proper regimen apd
;alacready has led for years the most healthtul
hte on earth, that of quiet Euglish country
gentleman Baltimore Gazette.
LIVING BY E.-Alexauder Roberts, born
IN Detroit Scventy-two years ago. died the other
day III Leeds, England His father took him
10 Eng land when but boy, and soon set him
up IN business, with the positive injunction not
Ospend more than eight shillings and sixpence
a.Seek. Robert adhered closely to his instruc-
uVhs from that time to his death. lie con-
Nrocted the rule to involve the rent of his
Sore, and 50 in little while, when increasing
"usNess made him enlarge his store, he
Hne ,ha UP an outside home and lived and slept
".s' S,aS as rent rose and his business, second
J'uu iauu t'otneS selling, increased he had to cut
;n" s,"u ulS iOod expenses still lower and to move
'a"; 'nG narrower quarters. This he did time aad
r, sa'u' until at the close of last summer he was
suan! ssraiy starved to DEATH His acquaintanccs
br bbDaly Wy one day found him prostrated entirely
snS ~ S.e .I oVerwhelming filth of his narrow home
S,nI S"u Ine Iack OF all nourishing food They per
hs hs"4su nun to buy some medicine, but when
oo,sS nv S9' IL, It only gave him an appetite. He
fvu,4 s oot afford to buy any food after paying
ob .I. 'ue medicine. so he wandered to horse
t"us'nuf t.n tree aud filed himself with its luciouS
,ban La.s lie lie returned to his home and died
nu.0; ,".ie; his is the brief story He was re-
ss'. su!eu 10 be worth at least 100000. but his
Is'S VOW was kept to the end and so long as
tb,n .A':'ea II Was never at greater expense
i"s, ".u eleht Shlillngs aud sixpence a week. His
tb<uuss'l9hs tbo, We're to live for that sum, and he
cav avusaI le obeyed Yet living for that SUN
y' yaused his death, and it becomes question
S~nn Il. sne iosie'an whether the man did not BY
mo. m,us olsobey orders But what will be of
he hs,,s interest to the uuwise is the fact that Ro
ran ,h ~ mas lett no heirs, except such claims as
vba.e Ue advanced by a natural son who is some
,a,I "uete 10 America. Have We not claim
So1 among us2
er,;a QUITS OF THE PEN-Some years ago an
tcr t~uent ,h publisher gave Lord Lytton .s2O, 900
Eh,se sne Use OF twenty of his novels for railway
S,aty. It Is said tina, this is the largest sum
snca. SIM, pa!a 10 England for copyright. The most
,h;s ,h;su publications OF the day, however, from
lt;s p.!1t OF view, are not novels, tut sermons.
b rs said that the REPRESENTATIVES, of the l.t,,