Prof. Faraday has given it as his opinion that all who die before they are a hundred years old may be justly charged with self-murder; that Providence, having originally intended man to live a century, would allow him to live a century did he not kill himself by eating unwholesome food, allowing himself to be annoyed by trifles, giving license to passion, and exposing himself to accident. The French savan, Flourin, advanced the theory that the duration of life is measured by the time of growth. When the epiphyses of the bones are united, the body grows no more, and it is at twenty years that this union is effected in man. The natural termination of life is five removes from the several points. Man, being twenty years in growing, lives, or should live, five times twenty years; the camel is eight years in growing, and lives five times eight years; the horse is five years in growing, and lives twenty-five years, and so on with other animals.—Sel.