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Teeth. An elderly gentleman once observed: "I wonder why my whiskers grow grey before my hair. ""Don't you know?" replied a rude fellow. "It is because you work your jaws more than your brain." The remark was more wise than witty, though it was both; for, after all, what are more worked than jaws? Do not eating and talking divide the result of many people's lives? Are not our words our spiritual judges? Are not our bodies prepared food? Somebody — Abernathy, I suppose — says that all our diseases come from fretting or stuffing. Now, as the fretting is often more outward than inward, it wears the law as well as the heart; and as to stuffing, the members don't complain of the stomach, but the stomach and the members make common cause against the jaw. This, to the million, means Teeth. Teeth are the great blessings, curses, and characteristics of humanity. A year or two ago, there was a capital picture in the Royal Academy, the title of which was, "Toothache in the