The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-02-23
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Franklin relates, in his autobiography, that
old people in his village assured him that his
own nature and constitution were so complete
~ those Of one Of his uncIes, whose death oc-
CURED four years before Franklin's birth,
that if those two events had coincided. they
might have passed for case Of transmigra-
tlon of souls. An equally striking likeness
existed between two brothers, Khasak and
Ourbrusk. sons of q Persian prince who was
killed in 1915, in the Russian service. They
could hardly be distinguished from each
other. Khasak, the elder by three yea 8
usually resided in st. Petersburg, but often
travelled. All Paris knew ourbrusk, who was
constantly to be seen at the libraries and es-
pecially at every first performance at the
lyrical theatres. To complete the resemb-
lance they both died recently at the age OF
eighty-two. In spite of certain alterations,
Guise and Lorraine were transmitted to all
their descendants through long series Of
generations. The Bourbon countenance, the
Condos aquiline nose, the thick and protrud-
ing lower lip bequeathed to the house of
Austria by Polish princess, are well known
instances. We have only to look at coin of
our George the Third to be reminded of our
present royal family. During Addison's short
mystery Mrs. Clarke, who solicited his favor,
had heen requested to bring with her the pa
pers proving that she was Millions daughter.
But as soon as she entered his cabinet Addison
said, Madam, require no further evidence.
Your resemblance to your illustrious father is
the best of all"
The Comte de Pont, who died in 1867 at
nearly a hundred, told DR.. Froissac that dur
ing the Restoration he often met In the salons
Of M. DesmouSseaux de Givrc, project of
Arras, a man at whose approach he shuddered
as he would the sight Of an apparition, 80
wonderfully was he like Robespierre. M.
De Pont confded his impressions to the pre-
feet who told him, smiling at his prejudice
that the person in question passed for Robes
pierrc's natural son that in fact it was a
matter Of notoriety. Next to family likeness
vitality or the duration Of life is the most inn
portant character transmitted by Inheritance.
The two daughters of Victor Amadeus the
Second the Duches of Burgundy and her sister
Marie Louise, married to Philip the Fifth,
both remarkable for their beauty, died at
twenty-six. In the Turgot family fifty years
was the usual limit of life. The great minis
ter, ON the approach 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-tlree. In the house of
Romanoff, the duration Of life is short, indie
pendent of the fact that several Of It's menu
bers met with violent deaths. The head of
this illustrious race, Michael Federovitch,
died at forty mine Peter the Great was scarce
ly fifty-three. The Empress Annie at forty
seven the tender hearted Elizabeth at fifty
one. OF Pauls -four sons, Alexander died at
forty-eight, Constantine at forty-two. Nichu-
las at fifty-nine, and the Grand Duke Michael
at fifty-one. In the houses of Saxony and
Prussia, on the contrary, examples of longevity
are far more rare. Frederick the Great in
spite OF his continual wars and his frequent
excess at table, was seventy four Frederick
William the Third was seventy the Emperor
William, In his seventy ninth year, is still
hale aud hearty. In all the coun tries of Eu-
rope, families of octogenarians, nonogenarians,
and centenarians, may be cited. On the first
Of April, 1716, there died in Paris saddler
of Doulevant, in Champagne, more than a
hundred years old. To inspire Louis the
Fourteenth with the fiattering hope of living
as long, he WAS made, two years previously, to
present that monarch with a bouquet ON St.
Louis Day. His father had lived one hun
bred 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 possession Of his men,
tai faculties he divided his property among
his children the eldest was one hundred and
three, and, what Is still more extraordinary,
the youngest was only nine. Jean Golem
biewsly (thc oldest man in the French army,
is still alive) who accompanied King Stanislas
Lcckzinski into France, belonging to family
of centenarians. His father lven to be one
hundred and twenty one, his grandmother
one hundred and thirty.-AUMe Year Round,
BEST FRosTINa. Many cooks are troubled