The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-07-18
NOVEL BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.

And now, young ladies' beware how yor
trife with the tender heart of George
Augustus Beware how you write him
epistles gushing with love, and speculate, in
ecstaic terms, of the bliss in store for you
when he shall be thine, forever thine" We
say "beware! y because young gentleman in
England, whose sturdy British heart had been
won by romantic, beautiful and wealthy
damsel, only to be tverlastingly smashed by
her some months later, when her tickle fancy
roved to another chap. Immediately brought a
suit for damages, alleging that he had
suffered great pain by her action, that his
business had been materially disturbed; that
he had, by too much thinking on his trouble,
been seized with sort Of indigestion, which
he described as both mental and physical; :"
that he had been compelled, in accordance
with the advice of his physician, to observe
strict regimen" not much meat, but good
port wine, three glasses per day and that,
to cap the climax, he had INDUCED in serious
thought Of putting his bones under Surrey
ground"
The trial was the first one of the kind that
had ever come up before the English judi
ciary, and created much amusement and
laughter the letters Of the young people be-
ing amatory and ridiculous to the laast degree.
It may be some consolation to the young
ladies, however, to know that the jury, after
listening to able arguments pro and con,
hror chit in q var,4ict for tba ,Ja;nt;N assoc.
ing the damages at one taithing and refusing
to allow him costs. This was serving the
rascal perfectly right for attempting to invade
the precious privilege of the ladies to sue for
money to heal their acerated hearts.
INOREAsE OF LONGEvTTY.-In the fifth an
nual report of the Massachusetts Board of
Health, DR.. Edward Jarvis publishes a paper
designed to show that the advance of civiliza-
ton has heightened the average life of man.
In ancient Rome, in the period 200 to 500
years after the Christian era, he finds the
average duration of life to have been 80 years,
while In the present century the average
longevity Of persons of the same class is so
yearI In the sixteenth century the average
longevity in Geneva was less than 70 years
between 1914 and 1888 it was over 40 years.
In 1893 the British Government borrowed
money BY ceiling annuites on lives on the
basis Of average longevity. The contract was
mutually satisfactory and profitable. Ninety
three years later, Mr.. Pitt issued another scale |
Of annuities on the same expectation of life as |
b the previous century, but the annuitants |
kved % much longer than their predecessors |
that i proved to be very costly loan to the |!
The conditioning causes which |
have pguduced the results here noted must |
have been multifarious, but prominent among |
lAen have NO doubt been the removal of |
plague diseases BY the discovery Of prevenives |
u 1.-The general education Of al classes of citi-
Deao II some Of the primary rules Of health.
1EpUAaM 1soxsn Own ksw OnL.zANs, 81. |
LsUo AND CmoA0o RAu.oAp.-We would inform |
= onaoarned that The regular Sunday morning |
|ssassaon tckets yin again b plsesd On sale, !
lnsacing o. Sunday aaEA tAe 18Th inst.
- eaksts. beng cd = ssdnssd EAbsA aEe |
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