The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-11-18
Concerning Us All.


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 allowan o. 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 tho 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 thirtyfve.
The cutler, the dyer, the leather
dresser, the apothecary, the confec-
toner, the cigar maker, the printer,
the shoe-cutter. the engraver, 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. The editor
knocks himself into "pi" at the same
age. Then come trades that are active
or in pure air. The baker 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-fve,
the iun keeper to forty-six, the iaborer
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 q cen
fury among me chanics are those who
keep their lungs and muse es in a
healthful and moderate exercise, and
are not troubled with weighty cares.
The blacksmith hammers till fifty-one,
the cooper till fifty-nine, the builder
till ffty-two, the shpwright till fifty
six, the vince wright TIL fifty. The
miller lives to be white ed 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 live longer thas is
generally supposed. Litigation kills
clients sometimes, but seldom lawyers,
for they average fty-five. Physicians
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-fve.
Seafaring life and its life adiuncts
seem, instead of dangerous, to be
actually conducive of longevity. We
have already seen that the shipwright
lives till fiftysix. The sailor averages
forty-three, the caulker siXty-three,
the sail-maker fiftytwo, the stevedore
ffty-seven, the ferryman sixty-five,
and the pilot sixty-four.
La and longest lived come paupers,
sixty-seven. and the gentleman, sixty
eight. The only two classes that do
nothing for themse YES, and live on
their neighbors, outlive all the rest.
Why should they wear out when they
are always idle ?-San Francisco
World.