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Kirby’s wonderful museum.
WHIMSICAL ACCOUNT
OF THE PROPERTIES OF A GOOD WIFE, COMPARED W1T$
WHAT SHE SHOULD, AND SHOULD NOT, BE LIKE.
A good wife should be like three things—which three
things she should not be like:—
First. She should be like a town-clock, keep time and
regularity: she should not be like a town-clock, speak so
loud lhat all the town may hear her.
Second. She should be like an echo, speak when she is
spoken to : she should not be like an echo, always to have
the last word.
Third. She should be like a snail, keep within her own
house : she should not be like a snail, carry all she has on
her back.
LONGEVITY.
[Continued from p. 253 of Vol. V. of our Work.]
Francis Narodsky, aged 125, a Polish gentleman.
He married his second wife at the age of ninety-two. A
daughter, now alive, was the fruit of this marriage. In
1806, the Polish government granted him a pension of 3000
florins, which the Emperor Alexander continued till his death.
He died January the 6th, 1816, at Warsaw. Further par-
ticulars of this extraordinary person will be found in Vol. V.
of our work, p. 251.
David Ferguson, aged 124 years. Ferguson was a
Scotchman; but had resided in the ville of Dunkirk between
fifty and sixty years; he was, until a few years back, a very
industrious, active, and hard-working labourer. The follow-
ing account, which he gave of himself, is extracted from a,
memoir of this remarkable old man, lately published :—“He
was born at Netherud, in the parish of Kirkurd, about ten
miles north of Drumeiguir, the youngest of fifteen children;
his father’^ name was James, his mother’s maiden name was
Kirby’s wonderful museum.
WHIMSICAL ACCOUNT
OF THE PROPERTIES OF A GOOD WIFE, COMPARED W1T$
WHAT SHE SHOULD, AND SHOULD NOT, BE LIKE.
A good wife should be like three things—which three
things she should not be like:—
First. She should be like a town-clock, keep time and
regularity: she should not be like a town-clock, speak so
loud lhat all the town may hear her.
Second. She should be like an echo, speak when she is
spoken to : she should not be like an echo, always to have
the last word.
Third. She should be like a snail, keep within her own
house : she should not be like a snail, carry all she has on
her back.
LONGEVITY.
[Continued from p. 253 of Vol. V. of our Work.]
Francis Narodsky, aged 125, a Polish gentleman.
He married his second wife at the age of ninety-two. A
daughter, now alive, was the fruit of this marriage. In
1806, the Polish government granted him a pension of 3000
florins, which the Emperor Alexander continued till his death.
He died January the 6th, 1816, at Warsaw. Further par-
ticulars of this extraordinary person will be found in Vol. V.
of our work, p. 251.
David Ferguson, aged 124 years. Ferguson was a
Scotchman; but had resided in the ville of Dunkirk between
fifty and sixty years; he was, until a few years back, a very
industrious, active, and hard-working labourer. The follow-
ing account, which he gave of himself, is extracted from a,
memoir of this remarkable old man, lately published :—“He
was born at Netherud, in the parish of Kirkurd, about ten
miles north of Drumeiguir, the youngest of fifteen children;
his father’^ name was James, his mother’s maiden name was