MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY.

Kumara Times, Issue 462, 20 March 1878, Page 2

MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY.

A Boston journal thus refers to mar-1 riage and its effects on longevity:— " A job to coax bachelors out of' single I blessedness, and to decrease the stock | of old maids by an iucreased demand j for wives, may be involved in some ! statements raade.by the Loudon-Review j in regard to the relations existing ~bef tween marriage -and .longevity. it Ptd maids and bachelors, it 'says,' rarely v

attain to &c&et% told age, and Item it living to extraordinary ages by a dozen times or so ; while: Jacob.Jjak. of Bordeaux, died laid seventeen wives in the grave, and Margaret McDowall. a Scotch woman died in 1765 at the age of 105, having j wept at the untimely demise of thirteen men, whose namea she had borne in rotation. Thus far the Review does., not put an extraordinary tax upon, one's•«♦ capacity for : bolting a tough* morsel, but the strain is rather severe, .when it goes on to speak of a pair named Rovin, who died in Hungary in 1741, the man aged 170 and the woman 164, leaving a tender youth, 116 years old, i to bewail his orphanage, and reflect on the strength of that tie which held his parents together for 148 years. ' i, •