Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1886-11-27
MINING JOURNAL.
SATURDAY MORNING. NOV 81, 1886


The man that dies youngest, as might
be expected, perhaps, is the railway
brakeman. His average age is only
twenty-seven. Yet this must be taken
with some allowance, from the fact
that hardly any but young and active
men are employed in this capacity.
At the same age dies the factory
work-woman, through the combined
influence of confined air, sedentary
posture, scant wages, and unremitted
toll.
Then comes the railway baggage
man, who is smashed on an average at
thirty.
Milliners and dressmakers live but
little longer. The average of the one is
thirty-two, and the other thirty three.
The engineer, the fireman, the con-
ductor, the powder-maker, the we'll
digger, and the factory operative, all
of whom are exposed to sudden and
violent deaths, die on an average under
the age of thirty-fve.
The cutler, the dyer, the leather
dresser, the apothecary, the confec-
toner, the cigar-maker, the printer,
the shoe-cutter. the eng aver, and the
machinist, all of whom lead confined
lives, in an unwholesome atmosphere,
none of them reach the average age of
forty.
The musician blows his breath all
out of his body at forty. Tue editor
knocks himself into "pi" at the same
age. Then come trades that are active
or in pure air. The b4ker lives to
the average age of forty-three, the
butcher to forty-nine, the furnace man
to forty-two, the mason to forty eight,
the stone cutter to forty-three, the tan
ner to forty nine, the tinsmith to fifty
one, the weaver to forty four, the
drover to forty. the cook to forty five,
the ian keeper to forty-six, the labJrer
to forty four, the domest servant fe-
male) to forty-three. The tailor lives
to be forty-three, the tailoress to forty
one.
Why should the barber live till fifty,
if not to show the virtue there is in
personal neatness and in soap and
water?
Those who average over half a cen
fury among me han.cs are those who
keep their lun IS and muse es in a
healthful and moderate exercise, and
are not troubled with weighty cares.
The blacksmith hammers till tifty-one,
the cooper till tifty-nine, the builder
TIL ffty-two, the shipwright till fifty
six, the whee wright til fifty The
miller lives to be white Ell with the
age of sixty-one. The ropemaker
lengthens the thread OF life at fifty
four. Merchants, wholesale and retail,
till fifty-two.
Professional men Ii e longer than is
generally supposed. Litigation kills
clients sometimes, but seldom lawyers,
for they average fty-fve. Pliysic; ans
prove their usefulness by prolonging
their own lives to the same period.
Clergymen, who, it is to be presumed,
enjoy greater mental serenity than
others, last till sixty-iive.
Seafaring life and its life adiuncta
seem, instead of dangerous, to be
actually conducive of longevity. We
have already seen that The shipwright
lives till fifty-six. The sailor averages
forty-three, the caulker sixty-three,
the sail-maker fifty-two, the stcvalore
tifty-seven. the ferryman sixty-tiye,
and the pilot sixty-four.
Last and longest lived come paupors,
sixty-seven, and the gentleman, sixty
eight. The only two classes that dc
nothing for themselves, and live on
their neighbors, outlive all the rest
Why should they wear out when they
are always idle ?-San francisco
World.