While the life of a mermaid is full of pearls and corals and diamonds and grottoes and parties, we would not advise any young lady to make the change without proper reflection. In the first place, a young lady who is used to dry land would feel awfully damp for several weeks after becoming a mermaid. Then she would have to change her diet, costume, style of piano playing and singing, and she would probably miss the young man who calls every Sunday evening. So far as can be learned from Paul Du Chaillu, Eli Perkins and New Bedford whaling captains, mermaids never marry, Once in a while an old widower of a sea horse comes spooning around after a second wife, but he gets his walking papers with promptness and dispatch.     It seems horrible to think of a beautiful girl living single forever—for mermaids do not die—but nature’s ways are ways of wisdom and everything is for the best. It was probably the intention to furnish them husbands from the sailors who fell overboard, but it seems that such sailors drown before the date of the wedding is fixed, and the mermaid is therefore doomed to warm her cold feet on a flat-iron and do her own marketing.—Detroit Free Press. From— The Daily enterprise. (Livingston, Mont.), 23 Nov. 1883. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.