Show CHANCES OF LIFE an old document contains som somo some 0 in 14 te resting information unknown to many antl anil rarely larely encountered in the papers among other things it con eon 1 bains a table exhibiting an average age ago attained by persons empl empi employed dyed in the various popular professions of the day in this particular as in most others the farmers have the advantage advant ago over most of the rest of mankind as their average is 1 sixty five next upon the docket co come me the judges and justices of the peace the dignity of whose lives is lengthened out to sixty four following them immediately in the catalogue of longevity is the bank officer who sums up his account at the age of sixty three public officers cling to their existence with as much pertinacity as they retain their offices they never resign their offices but life forsakes them at af fifty six coopers although they seem to stave through life hang on until they are fifty eight the good works of the clergyman follow them at fifty five shipwrights Ship wrights hatters lawyers and rope makers some very abely at elygo go together at fifty four the village blacksmith like most of his co temporaries dies at fifty one butchers follow their bloody career for precisely half a century carpenters are arc brought to the scaffold at forty nine masons realize the cry of mort at the tho ageos forty seven traders cease their speculation at forty six jewelers ire are disgusted with the tinsel of life at forty four bakers manufacturers and various mechanics adleat die dle at forty three the painters yield to their colic at forty two the brittle thread of the tailors life is broken at forty one editors like all other beings who come under the special admiration of the gods die comparatively young they accomplish their errand of mercy at forty the redeems his last note and plays his dying li fall at thirty nine printers become dead mad matter at thirty eight 1 the machinist is usually blown blow n u up p at thirty six the teacher usually dismisses his scholars at the ago age of om hirty thirty four and the clerk is even shorter lived for he must needs prepare his balance sheet at thirty three no account is given f tiie tile average longevity of wealthy uncles the inference is fair therefore ei that they are immortal albion |