The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-05-04
FAMILY LIKENESS AND VITALITY.
Their Remarkable transmission In Ger
thin ROynI FanaIIIea.

Their Remarkable transmission in Ger
tain Royal Families.
In spite of certain alterations, the
typical features peculiar to the houses of
Guise and Lorraine were transmitted to
all their descendants through a long series
of generations. The Bourbon cOunten-
anCe, the COndes' aquilne nose, the thick
and prOtruding lower lip bequeathed to
the house of Austria by a Polish prin-
cess, are well41nOwn instances. We
have only to look at a 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
daughter. But as soon as she entered
the cabinet Addison said: Madam, l
require no further evidence; your resem-
blance to your illustrious father is the best
of all" The Compile de POnt, who died
in 1867, at nearly one hundred told DIR.
FrOissaC that during the restoration he
often met in the salons Of NJ. DesmOus-
seaux de Givre, prefect of Arras, a man
at whose approach he shuddered as he
would ut the sight of an apparitiOn, 50
wonderfully was he like RObespierre.
NJ. de POnt confided his impression to
the prefect, who told him, smiling at his
prejudice, that the person in question
passed for RObespierre's natual son; that,
in fact, it was a matter of nOtOriety.
Next to family likeneses vitality or
duration of life is the most important
character transmitted by inheritance.
The two daughters of Victor Amadeus
II, the Duchess of Burgundy and her
sister Marie Louise, married to Philip
V, both remarkable for their beauty,
died at twenty-six. In the TurgOt fam
lily fifty years was the tls1al limit of life.
The great minister, on the approach of
that term, although in good health, re-
marked to his friends that it was time to
put his affairs in order; and he died in
fact, at fifty-three. In the house of RO-
man0ff the duration of life is short, in
dependent of the fact that several of its
members met with violent deaths. The
head of this illustriOus race, Michael
FederOvitch, died at forty-nine; Peter
the Great was scarcely fifty-three. The
Empress Anne died at fOrty-seven; the
tender-hearted Elizabeth at fifty-One. Oh
PauPs four sons, Alexander died at
fOrty-twO; Nicholas at fitty-nine; and
the Grand Duke Michael at fifty-one.
In the houses of SaxOny and Prussia, on
the contrary, examples of longevity are
far from rare. Frederick the Great, in
spite of his 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
OctOgenarians, nOnOgenarians, and cen
tenarians may be cited. On April /,
1926, there died in Paris a saddler OF
DOulevant, in Champagne, more than
one hundred years old. To inspire
Louis XIV. with the fatteTing hope of
living as long, he was made, two years
previously, to present that monarch
with bouquet on st. Louis day. His
father had lived one hundred and thir,
teen years, his grandfather one hun
dred and twelve. Jean SUTringtOn, a
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 hundred and three, and what
was still more remarkable, the youngest
was only nine. Jean GOlembiewski (the
oldest man in the French army, if still
alive), who accompanied King Stanislas
LOczinski into France, belonged to a
family of centenarians. His father lived
to be one hundred and twenty-One, his
grandmother to be one hundred and
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