The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-09-24

his faded nature wouio h"o" VI w Of
the Innocent Accused. -
Longevity. II
rbomas earn died 2sth January, 1888,
ooad 2O7 was born in the reign of Richard NJ
II. in 1881. He lived in the reigns OF ten s
sovereigns. There died ia lsVi q; ha naans,
war" and who was nearly 200 years old. S
saint Mupgo, otherwise called Kentigern, b
1 f"nnder Of the Bishoprio of Glasgow,
scotchman. died aged 1 IsS-years;H Ieser
Jenkins, English, l69 years; Joseph Sur
r;nnton. Norwegian, 160 years; Thomas I
DaSme. English, 155 years; Thomas Parr,
English, I52 years; Draakenborg, Dane;
LAG years. J: Es Wn5ar G hng,sn' 1876
Years: Douglas Gurgen, Swede, l2O years;
H;tteistadt, German, 125 years; Maria
Williams, Russian, lis years.
With respect to some OF these patriarch
facts are to be noted. Joseph Surrington,
retained till his death the free use OF all
his senses, and of all his intellectual facui-
, ties. He left at his death young WIDOW
and several children OF whom th the oste aS
r wears. OF old Parr everybod has heard,
: yhongh why he should commonly he cited
g IA the most notable example Of longevity
s it is not easy to Say, seeing, as we nave m
Q much greater age than he did. Parr had
a saen nine kings succeed to the throne of
y ENGLAND. AZ 1903 years he attended to his
{. occupation, and threshed In the barn. he
i. was married at 100: At l52 the KING calieo
~ him to London, and treated him magnln-
re Gently but he succumbed in the midst OF
g. his triumph. The post-mortem," made
B. by the celebrated Harvey. showed that all
r. the organs were perfectly SOUND, ana a;s 5nat
o. the death of the old man was but acclden-
err tai. and the result of an indigestion:
to douglas Gurgen took wife at the age OF
to as, and had eight children. Mitteistadt
er married at no years, and had likewise
les several children. Maria Williams aosS, i md
n years, but another came in its place. Al
M los she lost second, which was likewise
The replaced. The most wonderful instance OF
ost longevity in our own times which we nave
Act read of is in the case of soldier ut Der
Tue lin. This man, the first to have conferred
ok, upon him the decoration of the Cross o
I'M, ST. George, was living last year, 1870, age'
ore 1870 years, and, for aaght we know to til
the contrary, may be 30 still, and rejoicing
,ng Nth his countrymen over the late splendi
yed and unparalleled triumphs achieved ny 1h
I'm. German arms.
,ad II NAV not be out of place here to give
by few particulars as to the ages OF some VI ~
be lower animals, by many OF whom tn
des "lords of creations" man, is far outllvet
yd- Rabbits live7 years; squirrels and mares
it years; fox, IA to 16 years cats about l
ord years bear lives rarely more IMAM
the years; wolf, likewise, ~ years nogs Gu
men same the rhinoceros lives ooo =" Je%ts
ross cows live to about 25 years. A horse hf
,ost heen known to live 62 years, but the ave
the age duration of the lite OF the morse 10 ITO
trail 22 to 30 years. Lions live from ~ to
,ear wears, though lion in the Geological u a
md, deps of London reached the age OF
are wears. Tortoises live often up TO IL
that Gears: elephants, as is we'll known, live
a is a great age for centuries even. Wh!
and Alexander the Great had Vanqulsheu !.
ow, Indian king, Porus, he consecrated 10 q
lasp sun an elephant, which had fought cou
1t ageousiy for this monarch, anu f ha Iavi,
istic Ajax" He set him at hperty alIeI I'M nay.
that attached to him an inscription. The OIL
m is mai was found $50 years after. Among
nity h;rds-a pelican lives for GO years; an Gag
We have heard of died at lob; and rave
,;tv and parrots have been known to attain
hose ages beyond 100 years. At Vienna there
Us Ire skeietou of a swan which lived for q
J" ~ years. Dolphins and swordfish reach I
80, 400 of 30 wears. Culver supposed tt
,eost whales live 1000 years. The greatest 9
,abIs of man or animals is, however, far outd
tain tanced by that of some trees, as, for
life. stance, in the vast forests of the n
oider World, where veterans have fallen to
m ia woodlands axe, whose age was to be ret
are oned, not by hundreds, but by Thousands
inple years. Amongst European trees, the
f1r is the most celebrated for its longevity
nified remarkable also for the slowness OF
,erior growth. Tho following notice OF an al
Y the oak we have taken from laIe SonShc ~
? and paper: I" In the forest of Hagenau ID
Tts as oldest oak in Alsace, and, in all probao
a wit ty, the most aged tree in the entire wo
was According to tradition, Saint AroogasG u
oerso- in the eighth century, built his hermit
ribes, beneath the sna1e Oh lts oEanon9 :.
anhe- bucherons OF the ioresI assay " ::
court, existence of 1900 years. 1t stands