The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-14

The average age In years and months for
man who are not mostly or exclusively
brain workers Is:
School teachers, gardeners and butchers. 90 ~
Trsdesmen ...... ....-........--.- 80
LAWYERS and financiers. ..-...-.-..-......o4 3
Doctors. .-.....--.-..'......-. .
Bakers. ....--.....--... -''.'.''''''''-' o
Sboeunakers. ......--........'... .
Smithies ..... 80. ...-.......---...-....4o
Tiors ....... As 4
Stonebreakers, printers, etc. .............4O =.
The statistcian also looked up the bio
graphical data in the lives of 1000 promi-
9snt men, and found that 200 of them had
Iived beyond the age of so. At the time of
his death IT'S were 80 to IS years old; So, So
70 80; 80, 80 to 95; 10, 95 to 100; 10. 100 to
100
LONG LIVES OF PROMINENT MEN.
How have so many men of prominence
and onerous duties in public life managed to
exc out more than their allotted three score
and ten? The Austrian Society has tried
TO get a general answer to this question by
asking old men in the public life of Austria
and Germany just to what each ascribes his
multiplicity Of years. Maj. Gen. Baron
Won Haussr in Graz, 81 years old, who has
fought in four wars and thlrty-four battles,
walks for three hours every day, rain or
shine, and thinks that this habit alone has
preserved his health.
The chief Of division, Carl Won Ransom
net. SO years old, ascribes his continued
robustness to the simplicity OF his daily life.
The Lieutenant Field Marshal Won Macchio,
who, although 81 years old, is still famous
mountain climber, has taken a cold bath
every morning since his 14th year, and be-
lieves every one else may lengthen his life
by doing the same. Up to ten years ago he
skaued whenever there was Ice. Count
d., IN GiIr,Siav, alcN 81
attributes the ripeness of his age to cold
shower baths.
Anton Ritter Won Schmerling, the head
Of the Austrian bench, is So years old. He
wrote to the Society for Popular Education
II have taken only simple food, have had
no mouth for delicacies, and have never
smoked. l have, as rule, drunk only
water" Court Councillor Won Turner ex-
pressed the opinion that he had lived to be
sound at 50 because he had 'lived simply
and never been drunk"
The speaker of the Austrian House OF
representatives, DR.. Franz .Smolka, is SO
years old, and sturdy beyond most deputies
of so. When he was a boy his father COM
PEELED him to rise early every winter morn
ing and run about barefoot in the snow
This harsh training enabled Smolka to
withstand the effects of close confinement in
a damp prison cell from 1S41 to 1916. Privy
Councillor Won Plener, 70 years; Gen. Won
Roller, n years, and the industrious Baron
Won Rosthom, rs years, ascribed their I'M
diminished vigor to plain living. The
Land Marshal Won Fielder of Lower Aus.
tia says he feels fully as strong and ex.
uberant as he felt fifty years ago. because he
has, throughout his life, made foot tours
through Europe every summer, with his
pack on his back and his staff in his hand.
One voice from France also answered the
soolety'S questions. II have worked stead
lily" are Jules Simon's words, land, thanks
to my moderation, have to-day the same
habits and energy that l had thirty years
agO."
YEARS AND THE BRAINS.
What does the accumulation of years
mean for the work of the brain? This is,
perhaps, the most interesting question an
swered by the Italian writer, Paolo Monte
gaia, In his Hygiene of the Head" who
ever is not good minister of state, good
general, or a good physician at 80 years
Will never be one," he writes. "Beranger
was an author at 16, and Burns at the same
age was celebrated in his native village
Calderoni wrote at IA, and Goldori at put
together a comedy that astonisbed ALL
Ovid was child poet. Pope published at
10 MS ldyls. Schiller at % was famous for
MS Robbers Goethe was a wonder child
LORD Chatham was at 81 an M. P, and his
sou was M 2. at 81, and shortly afterward
minister. To the same end may be also cited
Fox and Canning.
The early maturity of great artists and
composers is too well known to need COM
ment- In science early maturity is rare be-
cause the collecting of the necessary knowl-
edge Is slow process. The minimum and
maximum of early maturity are to be found
respectively among composers and scientists,
IOT IL a To- fhok he
automatic energy of thought, which is at
once the most irresistible and the most in
dependent OF training and outside influence,
Is the most early developed. 1t must be
sad, Zoo, that the lateness of maturity
among scientists 10 more apparent than real.
scientist can hardly at 16 publish to the
world a great discovery, yet can have
gathered the materials for making such a
great discovery in the future.
The earliness of the maturity Of thought
apparently varies In various places and at
various periods. In France and England
me dramatic talent begins to show itself
elIer the 2lst year. 1t grows steadily,
6oesenes its full bloom ard energy between
~ ~ and 80, becomes more robust up to so or
~, and then begins to wane. Talent for
writing tragedies is of earlier development
suan talent for writing comedies, be-
cause it is a product of glowing
On anu Is QeVelOpeO accordingly
~ "a about the 25th year. Among
the great French writer's Of comedies, on
Tue other hand, we find the most productive
ase between 80 and 45. Very great minds
not only ripen very early. but also maintain
T S1elr bloom longer than do smaller minds.
5Ilan still painted in his Goth year. Hayez
uIu ms best piece when passed three score
AUG ten. Manzoni studied after he had be-
come an old man, and Bufalini spoke most
eoquently at co. Cicero in old age
wrote like boy, and Humboldt published
6 5ne fourth volume of his 'Kosmos' in his
goth year"
NO country in the world furnishes so
many illustrations of the remarkable
Seciyity of old students as do Germany. Tho
uerman professor is a man who does not
spare himself early or late, who attends all
us lectures and classes with clockwork
regularity, and yet finds time to write a