The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-27
LONGEVITY.

The Paris correspondent of the New
York Evening Post thus discourses of
longevity:
The recent death of one of Frederick
the Greats soldiers at the age of 12l has
called forth list of cases of longevity
from the pen of Victor Meunier, from
which take few remarkable instan
ces. The list begins with Moses-but
this is going too far back. The first
shall mention is of more recent times,
namely, an Italian buried in a church
at Toulouse, whose tomb bears the fol-
lowing inscription ''Pause a moment,
wayfarer, and read. Here lies Mandi-
uelli. who lived 100 years, 20 of which
he passed with his wife, by whom he
had "a children. He died in the year
1865. OF this / desired To inform you,
lest you should remain in ignorance. Go
your way and pray"
Another is of an freshman who left
this world in 1900. His epitaph is as
follows: "Under this stone lies Brown,
who solely 10y virtue of strong beer sur
vived hundred winters. He was
always intoxicated, and so formidable in
this condition as even to make Death
afraid of him. Finding him one day
fasting against his will deprived of beer
of course), Death getting bold, attacked
him and thus triumphed over an unpar-
alleled drunkard." James O'Donald,
another Irish hero of this sort, died in
the neighbOrhood of Cork, at 100 years
of age. He was seven feet two inches
high, and ate at each repast four pounds
of solid food, and drank fermemed
liquors proportionatoiy. How many
repasts he made per diem is not stated,
but his faculties were not impaired.
Patrick O'Neill, still another who lived
to 100, was married seven times, the last
time ut the age oflI6. When an Irish
man exclaims "Long life to ye!" we
know what it means. Cardinal d.
Armagnac in 1854 on his way through a
street in certain town, saw an old man
upwards of eighty, weeping; on demand
ing of him the reason, the old man re-
piled, "My father has beaten me because
! passed before my grandfather without
saluting him." The father Of the man
was l03 and the grandfather 1913.
Place 0uT DANES! Marie Nanscune
died at the hospital of Oman in 1856,
aged l25 years, On being asked what
She had done thus to prolong her life
"Muclf temperate living, no dsguiet
ude, and mind and senses equally calm
that is my recipe. Jane Serenphan, an
English woman, married Ia I'LL, at the
age l27, and expired the following year,
like a lamp without oil" the C. roni-
cler says: Returning to male macrOb-
ties, we find Barthoin, In his "Acta
Medical" speaking of a man deceased at
l27, who at 100 held over the baptismal
font girl whom he afterwards married,
anI hx vxyJ,nn, liz, h.l fhrnn oh Il
The surgeon Poltiman, who died in
Lorraine, in 1926, aged 140 had never
been bled or physicked, unless habit
may be called such, contracted at The
age of twenty five, of getting inebriated
every day ut the close of his labors. The
day before his death he performed IN
operation for cancer on an old woman.
The last have to quote is that of Jura-
ten, who, at the age of I20, was admit
ted at his own request, to II sitting of the
Revolutionary convention in 1859, for
the purpose of expressing to it the graft
| tude of a body of compatriot serfs for
their liberty. The assembly received
the old man standing, and with the
| greatest respect. In consideration of his
| having lived 80 long to he a witness to
the liberty of his country, the Convent
ton awarded him pension, and among
other things desired "to install him in u
patriotic school there, to be served by
the pupils of every class and age" "Do
| what you please for this old man. said
Mirabeau, in relation to the latter pro
posal; "but at all events, let him remain
free" The patriarch was respectfully
dismissed, and he retired to his noun
tain home in Jura, where he died at the
age of l25. tr., trl.+#