The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-07-09
VARIETIES.

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William Baylis, of Plainfield, L. l.,
Is ninety five, and his wife ninety. seven.
The baby is sixty-six.
Mrs. frankie Williams, of Muhlen-
burg county, Ky, is in her l04th year.
w. +. Hicks, of Westville, L. l., is
in his ninetleth year, and has not a
gray hair In his head.
AWaterloo veteran, named Cornelius
Woods, died at Halifax recently in his
ninety-third year.
Admiral Westphall, the oldest COM
missioned officer in the British navy,
died recently, aged ninety-nine.
London, Ont, has two centenarians-
Christy Mclean, aged l0s, and Mrs.
Diana Calvers, aged l0l.
For forty years Mrs. Abram Scott, of
Hampstead, l.. l.. has been called
Granny Scott" She is now ninety
seven.
A body recently found in the canal q
Trenton, N. j., proved to be Thomas
Coogan, who was in his ninety-fiis
year.
Henry Green and. his wife are inmates
of the Suffolk county e.. l.. almshouse.
He is lO4 years old, and she is ninety
four.
Mrs. Mary Simms lived in Quebec
when the city was besieged by the
American troops, and was horn there
I07 years ago.
Near Rutland, VT, lives Mrs. Moses
Lester, who does all her own house
work. although she has lived hundred
years. .s
Although Mrs. Sally Wilder, of Pitts
field, Ohio, is in her I0lst year, she at
tended the Sunday school festival held
recently.
Mrs. John Wellstead, of Far Rock
away, is still active, in good health, and
attends to her domestic duties daily. al
though she is loI years of age
The Oldest practicing lawyer in New
York State is Argyll Gibbs. of Roches-
ter. He is in his ninety-third year.
He has had six sons, all of whom have
been admitted to the bar.
Mrs. Catharine Roberts, of North AL
fred, Me-, is brilliant mem ber of So
ciety and enjoys excellent health She
celebrated her centennial on the ninth
of last April.
"All that 1 am Intellectually and
morally" said the bishop of Mar
chester, &c / eve to my mother. Mira.
Fraser has just died of paralysis at the
age of ninety years.
Nicholas Manet was IOi years old
when he died Mt Meadville, Pa.
One hundred and twcnty-three chill
dren, grandchildren, great-grandchil-
dren, and great-great-grandchildren
belong to Mr.. Shearer, of Planters
vile, Ala. who is ninety-six.
When Springfield, Mass. had but
1000 inhabitants, Elijah Blake made it
his home. He died there recently in
his ninety-sixth year. lie was an ex-
member of the State legislature.
John Marsh, of Wawayanda, N. Y,
although ninety years of age. is pos
sessed of robust and vigorous con-
stitution, m ! has nearly all his teeth
in as sound /. state when he was u
young man.
Mrs. Sarah Sanford. of Baldwin's, N.
Y, is in her ninetieth year and Of unim-
paired mental powers Two of her sons
are Methodist preachers, and two of her
daughters married Methodist preach
ers.
Matthew Robinson, of Lafayette, Ind,
is l3o years of age. He says he took
the first boat through the Lockport,
N. Y, locks; that he went to sea at
thirty years OF age, and followed that
vocation fifty years, and for forty-three
years ran on the Erie canal. He never
wore spectacles, never carried cane,
and never was sick.
Dot was monkey brought py James
Wardlaw, of Gait, Can, from India. 1t
suffered from toothache for several days.
One day the pain was more than ordi-
narlly severe, and the monkey resolved
10 undergo dental operation. 1t found
string. fastened it around the aching
tooth, seized the end of the string with
its fore feet, drew up one of its hind legs
between its fore feet, and gave sudden
shove. which jerked the tooth out and
sent it ilying halfway across the room.
Professor Beneke, of Marburg, Ger
many, after measuring go buman
hearts, says that the growth of that
organ is greatest in the first and second
years of life. At the end of the second
year it is doubled in size, and during
the next five years it is again doubled.
Then the growth is much slower,
though from the fifteenth to the
twentieth year its size increases two
thirds. A very slight growth is then
observed up TO fifty. when 1t gradually
diminishes. Except in childhood.
mems hearts are decidedly larger than
hose of women