Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-08-16

In spite Of certain alterations, the ty-
pical features peculiar to the houses of
Guise and Lorraine were transmitted to
all their descendants through long
series of generations. The Bourbon
countenance, the Condos aquiline nose,
the thick and protruding lower lip be-
queathed to the house of Austria by a
Polish princess, are well known in
stances. We have only to look at q coin
of our George iii. to be reminded of our
present royal family. During Addison's
short ministry Mrs. Clarke, who solic-
ted his favor. had been requested to
bring with her the papers proving that
she was Milton's daughter. But as
soon as she entered his cabinet Addison
said: "Madam, l require no further ev-
idence. Your resemblance to your il
lustrious father is the best of all" The
Comte de Pont, who died in 1867, at
nearly hundred, told DIR. FrOissae that
during the Restoration he often met in
the salons of NJ. Desmousseaux de Givre,
prefect of Arras, man at whose ap-
prOach 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 prefect,
who told him, smiling at his prejudice,
that the person in question passed for
RObespierre's natural son; that in fact,
it was a matter of notoriety.
Next to family likenesscs vitality or
the duration Of life is the most impor-
tant character transmitted by inheri-
tance. The two daughters of Victor
Amadeus H., the Duchess of Burgundy
ard her sister, Marie Louise, married to
Philip ", both remarkable for their
beauty, died at twenty-six. In the Tur-
got family fifty years was the usual limit
of life. The great minister, on the ap-
prOach of that term, although in good
health, remarked 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 ROmanoff the duration of life
is short, Independent of the fact that
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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 for
ty-seven; the tender-hearted Elizabeth
at fifty-one. OF Paul's four sons. Alex
ander died at forty-eight, Constantine
at forty-two, Nicholas at fifty-nine, and
the Grand Duke Michael at flfty-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 Ill was seven
ty; the Emperor William, in his seven
ty-ninth year, is still hale and hearty.
In all the countries of Europe fami-
lies of octogenarians, nOnogenarians.
and centenarians may be cited. On the
lst of April, ZIG, there died in Paris a
saddler of Doulevant, in Champagne,
more than hundred years old. To in
spire Louis XIV. with the flattering
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 thirteen years, his grandfather one
hundred and twelve. Jean Surrington,
a farmer in the environs of Berghem,
lived to be one hundred and sixty. The
day before his death, in complete pos
session of his mental faculties, he divi-
ded his property among his children;
the eldest was one hundred and three,
and, what is still more extraordinary,
the youngest was only nine. Jean Col
(the Oldest man in the French
Army, if still alive), who accompanied
King Stanislas Leczinski into France,
belonged to family centenarians. His
father lived to be one hundred and
twenty-One, his grandmother one hun
dred and thirty.-AH the Year Round.