The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-09-29
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Professor Felix 8. Oswald. VI. D., on Modes
OF Prolonging Life.

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Professor Felix g. Oswald. NJ. D., on Modes
OF Prolonging Life.
Professor Felix s. Oswald, NJ. D., In an
interesting paper in the September number
of the Popular Science Monthly, on the sub
jeet of "Longevity," gives the following facts
regarding pursuits and their effect upon lon
gevity: g5l a a aa1Ts HaErnak
Permanent indoor work is slow suicide,
aud between the various shoptrades and sec-
entary occupations the difference in this re-
spect Is only one of degree. Factories stand
at the bottom of the scale and the dust and
| vapor generating ones below zero; the wea-
vers chances to reach the average age of his
species have to be expressed by negative
quantity. In France, where the tabulation
of comparative statistics is carried further
than anywhere else, the healthfulness of the
principal town trades has been ascertained
to decrease In the following order: House
! building, huckstering, hot-bed gardening
| (forist), carpenter and brick mason trades,
street paving. street cleaning, sewer clean
ing, blacksmiths, artisan smiths (silver, cop
per and tin concerns), shoemaking, paper
making, glass blowing, tailor, butcher, house
painter, baker, cook, stone masons and lapi-
daries, operatives Of paint and lead factories,
weayers, steel grinders-the wide difference
between brick and stone masons being due
to the lung injecting dust Of lapidary work,
which, though an outdoor occupation, is
| nearly as unhealthy as steel grinding. Lead
paint makers have to alternate their work
with jobs in the tin shop, and, after all, can
rarely stand it for more than fifteen years;
needle grinders generally succumb after
twelve or fourteen years. .-.
THE HUMAN LUNGS
Seem to be able to eliminate the impurities
| breathed by street and sewer cleaners, for,
| in London as well as in Paris and Marseilles,
the followers of both trades rank high among
the long lived classes. Hucksters somehow
manage to out live city gardeners as well as
shop keepers; among the Hecubas of the
Paris market hall, not less than two hundred
and eighteen had passed their three score and
| tenth year. ...., -s.- ,.,.,
Preaching, and, strange to say, pettifog-
ging, are the healthiest Of all the learned
professions; their lung exercise may have
something to do with it, for lecturing teach
ers outlive the @silent" teachers dancing
masters, etc). Physicians die early; Nature
revenges herself upon her leagued adversa-
ries, for druggists and BARRIERS Tin many parts
of Europe synonymous with village quacks)
are likewise short lived; but sections reach
good old age-there must be mistake about
the graveyard effiuvia. Dr. ..-.....
| Art still increases the value Of human life,
but not its length; the greatest modern mas
ters of tune and color died in their prime,
like the greatest poets; inspiration IN all It's
forms would seem to be fame that con-
sumes the human clay more quickly than
| the fire Of afillction-if the extreme iongeyi-
ty of so many of the ancient masters did not
suggest different explanation, namely, that
the revelations of nature and the tendencies
TO establish dogmas have ceased to harmon
ize, and that the lovers Of truth have nova
days to cross Pontus where they must pre-
vail against whole sea of adverse currents,
or, Leander like, perish. ... .. .Ha
In the course of the last sixty of seventy
years the average duration Of human life has
| undoubtedly increased In all civilized eoun-
tries, but it is not less certain that the gain
of few decades does not yet begin to offset
the loss of centuries; we have saved our
selves from the abyss of medieval unnatural
ism, but we are still far from having recov-
cred the ancient heights Of vitality; the after
effects of the Buddban poison still cramp our
limbs and sadly retard our upward progress;
but the tide has turned, and the main cur
rents of the age have ceased TO set death
ward.
According to the demonstrations of the
naturalist, Camper, the normal average Of
one life term should be at least ninety
years. E....-...-.. ,........-.--,.., - iaa. (
| LIFE TOO SHORT. ... If.fj
| Mans life is too short for the attainment
of its highest purposes. Our season ends be-
fore its seed has time TO yield harvest; be-
fore q brave days work Is half dene we are
overtaken by the night, when no man can
work. AS the world is constituted, it takes a
/ certain g5ola4a4f ii# 1t aa.ag a'rE .4-F
/ .Eas r1 NUMBER OF YEARS sdi 4y}b
For new industry to take root and yield its
first fruits; 1t requires certain period for
new opinion to penetrate the crust Of society
aud reach the fertile subsoil of the lower
strata. Before the end Of that period the
planter Of the tree has to fertilize the soil
with his own bones; the weary ti!ler has TO
yield his pillow to other hands. And the no.
blest plants are of such slow growth that the
master of the vineyard appears to diserimi-
nate against his woithiest laborcrs; nothing
seems wanting to aggravate the injustice and
ineongruty of the existing arrangements.
Bot minimum life term of ninety years
would reconcile all contradictions; two
thirds Of il would be enough for the aejudi-
cation Of every claim, and the remaining
third could be devoted to rewards or retri-
buttons. The second generation, which now
| can only reverse and regret the short sighted
judgment Of the first, would have q chance
to make amends for the injustice. Such
men as Kepier, Spinoza, Dante, Milton,
Bayle, Rousseau, Mirabeau, Burns, Beetho-
var, Paine, and Byron would have survived
the influence Of their detractors, and time,
the avenger, could have answered their ap-
peal with something better than rnonu-
l ment. @' Il 'sH'A
| sl g. 1.-The Farmers Morse. 9eJ.
b. iH sa-8at8q - ----- suiag zlsdr 49,
| "I'n show you, boys, I've got no dollar
hoss, said Farmer Ritchart to the Cleveland
horse jockeys Wednesday. They made fan
of the old man when he entered his horse in
the 2:3S class, and thought he. was green
one aud no mistake. The horse had sand
burrs In his tall and had been christesed st.