The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-25
REAHTY NO AGE.

the accounts OF the destinations of
women who were no longer young.
Thus Pericles welded Aspasia
when she was thirty-six, and yet she
afterward, for thirty years or more,
welded an undiminished reputation for
beauty. Cleopatra was past thirty
when Antony fell under her spell,
which never lessened uA til her death,
nearly ten years after, and Livia was
thirty-three when she won the heart of
Augustus, over whom she maintained
her ascendency to the last. Turning to
more modern history, where it is possi
bic to verify dates more accurately, we
have the extraordinary Diane de
Poitiers. who was thirty-six when Henry
II. (then Duke of Orleans and just half
her age) became attached to her and
she was held as the first lady and most
| beautiful woman at court, up to the
period of the monarch's death, and of
| the accession to power of Catherine of
Medicis. Anne of austria was thirty
eight when she was described as the
handsomest Queen of Europe, and
when Buckingham ann Rlchelieu were
| her jealous admirers. Ninon de
| IEnclos. the most celebrated wit and
beauty of her day, was the idol of three
generations of the golden youtb of
France, and she was seyenty-two when
| the Able de Bernis fell in love with
her. True it is that in the case of this
lady a rare combination of culture,
talents and personal. attractions en-
dowed their possessor seemingly with
the gifts of eternal youth. Blanca
Capello was thirty eight when the Grand
Duke Francisco of Florence fell cap
tive to her charms and made her his wife
though he was FIVE years her junior.
Louis XIV. welded Nine. de Main
tenon when she was forty three years of
| age. Catherine II. of Russia was thirty
| three when she seized the Empire of
! Russia and captivated the dashing
young Gen. Orloff. Up to the time of
her death Cat sixty-seven) she seems to
have retained the same bewitching
powers, for the lamentations were
heartfelt among all those who had ever
known her personally. Mile. Mars, the
celebrated French tragedienne, only
attained the zenith of her beauty and
power between forty and forty-fve. At
that period the loveliness of her hands
and arms especially we're celebrated
throughout Europe. The famous Nine.
Recamier was thirty eight when Barras
was ousted from power, and she was,
without dispute, declared to be the
most beautiful woman in Europe, which
rank she held for fifteen years. %
THE HOURS AT WHICH DEATH OC-
CUR.
In q paper contributed by DR.. Law
son to the West Riding Asylum Medi-
cal Reports, England, for 1874, several
interesting observations are recorded
regarding the number of deaths which
occur during the different hours of the
day. Following up the researches of
Schneider and others. who had shown
that the greatest number of deaths take
place during the ante-meridian hours.
DIR. Lawson has been able to determine
more closely the time of day when the
greatest and least number of deaths oc-
cur. Supplementing the statistics of
other institutions by those of the West
Riding asylum, he finds that deaths
from chronic diseases are more numer-
Gus between the hours of s and 10 in
the morning than any other time of the
day, while they are fewest between the
hours of and 10 in the evening. In
the case of acute diseases, such as con-
tinued fevers, pneumonia, ETC., differ
ent result has been obtained. Follow
ing up what had been pointed out by
other authorities, DIR. Lawson shows
that the largest number of deaths from
this class of diseases take place either
in the early morning, when the powers
of life are at their lowest, or in the af-
ternoon, when acute disease is most ac-
tive. The occurrence of these definite
daily variations in the hourly death
rate is shown, in the case of chronic dis
eases, to be dependent on recurring
variations in the energies of organic
/ life and in the case of acute diseases
/ the cause is ascribed either to the ex-
/ istence of a welI-marked daily extreme
of bodily depression, or daily maxi
mum intensity of acute disease.
| DANCES.
Dancinc in Russia is said to be rather