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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1689, 20 April 1886, Page 3

Statistics ia England show that the first place among healthy occupation^ is licltl by ministers of religion ; gardeners and nurserymen come nrtct, theft- farmers and ' graziers, laborers in-agVicnituial counties, school-mus-ters, and those are closely followed by certain trades— notably, by grocers, coal merchants, paper manufacturers, lace and hosiery manufacturers, wheelwrights, shipbuilders and shipwrights and coal miners. It is a melancholy fact ilmt the professors of tholiealing .art fail to secure longevity for themselves; the percentage of deaths is greater among them than almost any other class. "Picking the ears " is a most mischievous practice ; m attempting to do this with hard substances an tinluckiy moiion has many a time pierced the drum and made it as useless as a bnrsttd rubber life-preserver; nothing sharper or harder than the end of the little finger, with the nail pared, ought ever to be introduced into the ear, unless, by a physician. Persons are often seen endeavoring to remove the ?' "wax H of the ear with the head of a pin ; this ought never to be done ; first, because it not only endangers the rupture of the ear by being pushed too far m, but if not so far, it may grate against the drum, excite inflammation, produce an ulcer which may finally eat all the parts away; second, hard substances have often slipped m, and caused the necessity of painful, dangerous, and expensive operations; third^ the wax ia manufactured by nature to guard the entrance from dust,, insects, and unmodified cold air, and when it has' subserved its purpose it becomes dry, scaly, and light, and m this coudition is easily pushed outside by new formations of wax within. — Phrenological Journal.