Show ripe elpe old age j in the june number of hunts merchants I 1 magazine id is a table orthe of the average age attained by men pursuing dif dlf different derent occupations some of its facts are di nt such general interest that we glean them arom it and present them in chronological order the man that dies youngest as might be ex peeled per hap is the railway brakeman Bra dra kemah his average age ia is only 27 yet this must be taken with some allowance from the fact that thit hardly any but bui cuno ouno cung cung 7 and active men are employed in that capacity y at the same some age dies the factory victory workwoman 0 through the combined influence of confined air sedentary postage scant wages and un remitting remi ting toil then comes the railway Barg ageman who is sm smabel sma ema abed hed on an average at BO 30 milliners and dress drese dressmakers makers live but little longer the average age of the eneis 32 and the other 33 3 the tile engineer the fireman the conductor the tile well weil digger divie and the factory operative lve ive all of whom are exposed to sudden and violent death die on an average un unk 1 der the age of 35 the cutler the dyer the leather dresser the apothecary the confectioner the cigar maker the printer the Siler slier silversmith smith the pai pal painter riter the shoe cutter the Eil eli engraver graver and the machin lyt all of whom lead confined lives in an unwholesome a none of them reach the a eo e 0 40 the th Alus musician ician blows his big breath all out of his body at 40 the editor knocks himself into pi at the sam samp rampage age page then t ome tome trades that are active or in a purer air the baker baket lives to the average age of 43 the butcher io to 49 the to 47 the carpenter to 49 the furnace man to 42 the stone cutter rutter to 43 the tanner to 49 the tinsmith to 4 41 1 the weaver to 44 the drover to 40 the cok cook to 45 the inn keeper to in 46 tile the laborer to 44 the domestic servant fe female niale to 43 the tailor lives rives to 43 the to 41 why should the barber live t til 11 50 if not to show the virtee virtue there is in personal neatness and soap and water those who average over half a century among mechanics are those who keep heep their muscles and lungs in healthful and moderate exercise and are not troubled with weighty cares the blacksmith hammers harn mers till 51 the cooper till 59 the builder till 52 the shipwright till 56 and tile the wheelwright till 50 the miller lives to be whitened with age as ns well a as S flour at 61 the rope maker lengthens the threads of life to 54 merchants average 52 professional men live longer than is general ly supposed ed litigation kills clients some sometime tm e I 1 but seldom lawyers for they average sa 5 py physicians prove their use usefulness funess by pr prolonging their own lives to the same bame period cle cie clergymen w who ho it is to be presumed enjoy a greater mental serenity than others last till 56 seafaring life tind lind its adjuncts seem instead of dangerous to be actually conductive to longevity we have already seen that the shipwright lives till 56 the sailor averages 43 the caulker 64 the sail maker 52 the stevedore 57 the ferryman 65 and the pilot 64 A dispensation of providence that 13 maine taine law may consid consider pr incomprehensible is that brewers and distillers live to the ripe age of 64 last and longest lived come paupers haupers Pau pers 67 and and m the ony fl woi aliat d V no thing to iid tid wil wit ri ie it neighbors outlast all the rest chyi froula they wear out when they are always idle idie albeke Al bEve journal Jo urpal t ra te A FEARFUL TRA tragedy edy the london times las lays laa before its readers the of a hr eibl affair which recently occurred dutch settlement sett lement ot of transvaal a at t ire tre tiie cape of good hope and aud d which we thithi ca be par pai allelA ill atrocity amo ng the tile achievements of modem times by the tiie exploit of marchal sv aiyar aim alm ain r g B naud aud liu ilu algiers lie smoked bild bu burned 1 to death thousands of liis ills barbarian opponents who had sought geirge beluge in in a deep aud and spacious cate caye in the case cuse 0 of t t the 1 e cape of or good hope the caffre indi hns ans had hid in murdered ur dered in october Oc catl ld idt t under ilider circumstances of great barbarity ten or twelve men meil aud women of the dutch im in meI mel mediately meia lately tely geneval Preto lius ilus raised an rive five hundred men and accompanied b by conzman der general pot Fot gieter giefer proceeded on an expedition to revenge tim ilia blood of their victims a after an min bosence of several weeks they tev reached some remarkable mar kuble kable subterranean xa caverns vens half a mile mlle in bength and from three to five hund hundred r M fee feet 6 in n width where the caffree had entrenched entrench id them sels bels upon his arrival at this tin s pot Gene general generall raly rail s attempted to bast bant the rocks above the caverns and thus crus crush h the savages ravages beneath the tha ruins the character of the stone however rendered this scheme imp impracticable practicable ibid irid and ha he then stationed his men around the inputs of the I 1 caves and built up walls in front of them after a few day das s many of the women and c children hildien were driven by hunger lind and thirst thirst from the then ir hiding biding places and were allowed to escape but bile every man w who iio ilo came forth was shot dead with their rifles I 1 on the tile of november al at the clo cio close se af of a siege biege of three weeks the fhe besiegers bes ber ge rs 1 1 1 po signs of 0 lit life ilfe e entered the caverly caverns s and the silence within together with the horrible odor a arising i from froin the bodies bodie of the dead told how efee effectually f fi bially aily ally their object had been hed hedi more than thin cuffies had bad been shot down at the mouths of or the caverns and a much creater rl inbur had by slow degrees suffering 11 1 1 alithe all ali the wa horror borror 4 of starvation in the gloomy recesses within 0 u |