The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1876-05-05
FAMILY LfKiENEss AND VITALITY.
Their Remarkable TrnnsmissIOn In Ger
tain Royal Families.

Ihe1r bemHrk0ble TrnnsmfssAOn IN Ter
tain Royal Families
In spite of certain alterations, the
| typical features peculiar to the houses of
| Gtiise and Lorraine were transmitted to
all their descendants through long series
Of generations, The Bourbon counter
anoe, the Copdes' aduilne nose, the thick
and ,ptotrtditie lS#er, I'D bedTieathed to
the house of Austria by a Polish prin-
cess, are well-known instances. We
have only to look at coin of George III.
to be reminded of the British royal fam
lily. During Addison's short ministry
Mrs, Clarke, who solicited his favor, had
been requested to bring with her the
papers. proving that she was Millions
daHgbtet. But as soon as sic shtbfed
the cabinet Addison said: MADAM, l
require no further evidence; your resem-
blance to your illustriOus father is the best
of all" The Compte de Pont, who died
in 1867, at nearly one hundred told DIR.
Froissac that during the restoration he
oftet met iii the sal9hs Of M. .Desftiotis-
seaux de Givre, prefect of Affa3, 4 ttiafi
at whose approach he shuddered as he
would at the sight of an apparition, so
wonderfully was he like Robespierre.
NJ. de Pont confided his impression to
the. prefeet, who told him, smiling at his
pfgiddice, that lie petsoh in Question
passed for Robespierres riatual soti that,
in fact, it was a matter of notorietY.
Next to. fitdily iketieses vitality or
duration of life Is the most important
character transmitted by inheritance.
The two daughters of Victor Amadeus
H., the Duchess of Burgundy and her
sister. Marie Louise, married to Philip
e. kt,6tr
died at twenty-six. In the Iurgot faEt-
lily fifty years was the usual limit of life.
The great minister, on the approach of
that term, although in good health, re-
marked to bis friends that,i. vas time to
fact, ct tifty-thres. III the house of R0-
manef the duration OF lie e short, IN
dependent of the fact that several of it's
members met with violent deaths. The
head of this illustrious race, Michael
Federoviteh, died at forty-nine; Peter
the Great vas scarcely fifty-thfee. The
Enipfes5 Ante died at, ,forty,Sefen; the
tender-hearted Eii1abett Vt Httt-etie. Of
Paul's four sons, Alexander died at
forty-two'; Nicholas at filty-nine; and
In the houses of Saxony and Prussia, on
Iuc COHtIdIE, SAdulplcS VI IOuSCNll5 diC
far from rare. Frederick tbS G+eat, IN
spite of MS continual wars and his fire.
quent excesses at table, was seventy
four; Frederick William III. was sew
enty; the Emperor William, in his sew
enty-ninth year, is still hale and hearty
In all countries OF Europe families Of
oetogenaiiaiis, ionogeiiariaiis,, apd cen
i6hafiatia tiag be titkH. Bh April l.,
1926, there died in Paris saddier Of
ppuleyapt, in Champagne, more than
ole hUrdfsd 16ars I'D. 10 in3piFe
Louis XIV. with the fiattering nope Of
living as long, he was made, two years
previously, 70 present that monarch
with bouquet on st. Louis day. His
father had lived one hundred and thir-
teeh years, bis erahdathst Tne hpn-
dred and twelve. Jean Surrington,
farmer in the environs of Berghem, lived
to be one hundred and sixty. The day
before his death, in complete possession
of his mental faculties, he divided his
PROPERTY among his children; the eldest
was one hUhdred ard three, aid what
was still more remarkable, Tie y6tirsest
was only nine. Jean GOlembiewski (thc
oldest man in the French army, if still
alive), who accompanied King Stanislas
toczshskl into France, belonged to a
family of centenarians. His fatn5r liSed
to be one hundred and twenty-one, his
to be one hundred and
thirty