e table of
deaths for 1813, which gives the following remarkable ages.
One 165;--three 135;--one 130;--fifteen 125;--thirty-three
from 115 to 120;--fifty-three from 110 to 115;--one hundred
and twenty-seven from 100 to 105;--fourteen hundred from 95
to 100;--two thousand eight hundred and forty-nine from 90
to 95;--four thousand four hundred and fifty-one from 85 to
90. Whole number of deaths 971,338.

_Salem Observer,_ Oct. 29, 1825.

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Boston shop-signs in 1789.

To read the signs in this town is a delicate, sentimental
repast.--I hope _Bostonians_ will never complain of want of
amusement, while there is one sign standing. If I had time,
I would certainly consult _Milton_, to see how he has
_arranged_ matters in his description of _chaos_.--I doubt
not I could there get a _hint_ for two whole chapters. I had
as lief take a walk through Cornhill, as to go to the
new-invented moral lectures.

_Herald of Freedom._

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A CURIOUS WOMAN.

We have often heard it said that men are curious, and we can well
believe it; but now we find it recorded that there has been at least
_one_ curious woman. Read the following extract from the "Salem Gazette"
of 1795:--

Married at Andover, Mr. Aaron Osgood to the _curious_ Miss
Ester Wardwell.

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"AWFULLY GOOD."

In our opinion the oft-repeated words "awfully good," "jolly fine," and
similar expressions, which sound so "charmingly sweet" from the lips of
interesting young ladies, are quite cast into the shade by language used
in the following extract from the Portsmouth, N.H., "Oracle of the
Day," Nov. 24, 1798:--

MARRIED]--In this town, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev.
Dr. Haven, MARK SIMES, Esq. Deputy Post-Master, &c. to the
elegantly pretty and amiably delicate Miss MARY-ANN BLUNT,
youngest daughter of the late Capt. John Blunt, of
Little-Harbour.

_Genius of Hymen; Power of fondest Love!
In showers of bliss descend from worlds above,_
_On_ Beauty's _rose, and_ Virtue's _manlier form,_
_And shield, ah! shield them both, from time's tempestuous storm_!

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