A Hint to Smokers.—The city of New York, is said to contain 130,000 inhabitants. Let 50,000 of them smoke only three Spanish segars a day, and it will amount in the year to the enormous sum of $1,095,000; a sum sufficient to pay the salary of the President and Vice-President of the United States, the Secretaries of State, of the Treasury, of war, and of the Navy, and of the Attorney, General, for 20 years, 10 months, and 8 days.
[N. Y. Gazette.
Extraordinary Longevity.—Dr. Knott Martin, of Marblehead, who died at the age of 88, left seven children by his first wife, who are now living, at the following ages, viz:—
Thomas, aged 88—Knott, aged 87—Eleanor, aged 80—Hannah, aged 77—Richard, aged 73—Arnold, aged 71—and Mary, aged 69. The aggregate of the seven being 554, and the average 78 years.
Also, by his second wife, Betsey, aged 53, and Bartholomew, aged 51. He had three other children, one of whom died in infancy, and the other two at an advanced age.
Eight of the nine now living reside at Marblehead, the other at Beverly, and all of them have a numerous posterity.
[Salem Register.
An effectual Method of Preserving Poultry houses free from Vermin.
Sir—As I do not know that you have positively interdicted all communications from farmer-esses, I must ask you to record a grand discovery, which I consider myself to have made, in the noble art of—raising poultry.
It may save much trouble to my sister housewives, to whom, according to the order prescribed by the lords of the creation, this department of domestic economy has been assigned. It is well known, that in this branch of our humble duties, the greatest difficulty arises from our poultry houses being so much infested with vermin; or, to be more plain, in the slang of the poultry yard, with chicken lice. Now, I have proved, by long experience, that they will not resort to houses wherein the roots, nest boxes, &c. &c. are made of sassafras wood. You may smile, and ask me, the reason of it: I am no philosopher, but I tell you, sassafras wood will keep lice out of hen houses: I know it to be a fact, and when you will tell me why it is that chips of cedar wood or tobacco will keep woollen free from moth, then I will endeavour to tell you why it is, that sassafras wood will keep away chicken lice—one is universally known to be true, the other no less true, though less known.