Alphonso XIII prefers cigarettes to cigars, and Nicholas II consumes daily about thirty cigarettes of the Russian variety. Emperor Francis Joseph, in spite of his advanced age, smokes a pipe from morning to night, and King Leopold smokes about twelve cigars a day.
Victor Emanuel III smokes very little, and is satisfied with a few cigarettes daily, but King Oscar of Sweden does not use tobacco at all.
MAN'S LIFE AS AFFECTED BY HIS VOCATION.
SOME LONG-LIVED PROFESSIONS.
Musical Composers and Men of Letters
Are Shown to Be the Most Likely
to Reach a Sound Old Age.
The Psalmist's "threescore years and ten" are not the average man's life, but are named as the average limit of those who arrived at a normal old age. The average life of men in various occupations appears in the appended table:
| Years. | |
| Rural laborers | 45.32 |
| Carpenters | 45.28 |
| Domestics | 42.03 |
| Bakers | 41.92 |
| Weavers | 41.92 |
| Shoemakers | 40.8 |
| Tailors | 39.40 |
| Hatters | 38.91 |
| Stonemasons | 38.19 |
| Plumbers | 38.18 |
| Mill operatives | 38.09 |
| Blacksmiths | 37.96 |
| Bricklayers | 37.70 |
| Printers | 36.66 |
| Clerks | 34.99 |
| Av. population | 39.88 |
The figures just given cover most classes of non-professional work. Musical composers, however, are said to live longer than persons engaged in other occupations, in proof of which this eminent list has been prepared:
| Auber | 89 |
| Monsigny | 87 |
| Verdi | 87 |
| Cherubini | 81 |
| Rameau | 81 |
| Haydn | 77 |
| Spontini | 76 |
| Rossini | 76 |
| Gounod | 75 |
| Paisiello | 75 |
| Salieri | 74 |
| Handel | 74 |
| Lesueur | 74 |
| Gluck | 73 |
| Gade | 73 |
| Piccinni | 72 |
| Grétry | 72 |
| Meyerbeer | 72 |
| Saint-Saëns (living) | 71 |