MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY.

Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2844, 27 March 1878, Page 2

MARRIAGE AND LONGEVITY.

A Boston journal thai refers to marriage end its effects on loßieTihr.—*«A job to coax bachelors out ofsingle blessedness, and to decrease the ■took of old . maids by an increased demand for wiTes* may be inrolred in sooie statements made by the London Heriew in regard to the) relation ..existing between marriage, and longevity. Old maidi and fcabhelors, it says, rarely attain to extreme old age, and, then it tells of people tiring to extraordinary ages by,wedding a doaen times or,, so; while Jacob Jay. of Bordeaux, died in 1772 at the age of 101 years, tarn*,. laid seTenteen wives in the grare, aad iMargaret MeDowall,,a Scotchwoman, died in 1765 at the age of 106, baring wept at the untimely demise of thirteen men, whose names sheUkaift- borne in rotation. Thus far the^Beriew does not „' put an extraordinary; tax upon one's capacity for bolting a tough morsel, but the strain is rather serere when it goea on to speak of a pair named Eoria, whs died in Hungary in 1741, the man aged 170 and the woman 164, tearing a tender youth 116 years old to bewail his orphanage, and reflect on the strength of that • tie which held his parents together for 148 years. -