Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-13

Was not only an Instance Of extrsordi
nary longevity, bot an instructor of bov
to attain if. Cornsro was Venetian
uoblsman with ssnaIi estates and ni.n1
yices. With poor constitution hs In
dni2ed In such excuses that at the aga
| Of forty be WIS 30 broken down that hi
physic,an declared Is would tie miracle
IL he lived TO sse fifty, and Only tn,
strictest attention TO his diet and b 4biii
would enable him 10 live as long A. that
| Curnaro determined TO amend his way
and see if be could not psolong his lifs
| to extreme old age. he succeeded "
well that be Lived 20 b one hundrea aLe
four years Of age, and also sueceoded II
| res osina his constitution 20 . 0oand
| stats. a daughter Yrs b1en % him
| when be Wa far advanced In y01rs, and
bssween his niuetioth and hundredth
years be wrote sevsf1l vigorous AID In
tsrestinQ treatisse on the pfessrvation ii
| health and the atsainmsns Of longevity.
Une of his works vAs translated INTO
English, under the title Of "Surs and
Certain Methods Of Attaining . L ne
and Healthy Lifs." Copies are still ex-
tsns, though very rare.
Cornsro died an almost painless death
like one filling 10 sieep-in Padua, In
1866. His wife, almost 40 old as himself.
survives him but short time, dying 81
peacefully.
On4 Of the most noted instances Of the
efisacy Of C0rnaro's preceps vas that
OF
THOMAS WOOD,
or Essex. In 1854 Mr.. Wood attained
bis forty fifth year. along With a crop Of
terrible Diseases, owing 70 a life of dls-
sipation. Hs Was cumbersorDeiy fat,
had epilep.Ic fits, govt. vertigo, gravel,
rheumatism, headache, sickness at the
stomach. disc 4se of the bowels, meisn-
choiis, and felt bad almost anywhere
you could name. Cornaro's book fell
into has hands and he determined 70 fol-
iov the regimen therein recommended.
He made no sudden change, however, in
his manner of living, but CO ised gradu-
ally gor9ing himself, and became wafer
drnker. In q comparatively sters time
he WAS, 10 nse his own words, meta
morphosed from n monster to a person
Of InodeSste size; from the condition Ut
&C unhealthy, decrepis old man TO per-
fs-t health" He died prematureiy some
where in the eighties.
While Americans are as DESTROYS of
attaining green old age As any other
people, tn: few remarkable Instances Of
longevity have como down To us.
Negroes live longer than white people.
owing 10 then. simple fare and out door
exercise and work. Alice cher other
n anne il not Lressrved) holds y distIn-
guished place In American history of
longevity. She WAS born In Philadelphia
VIII. II 1t WAS a wilderness and the Indians
hunted in its woods. She knew Penn,
Thomas Story, James Logan and other
historic characters. At tho age of ninety
five she would ride to church on horse
back at full galI0p. At one hundred she
went blind, yet would row herself into
tho middle OF a stream and catch fish.
She recovered her sight before dsatn.
which occurred IN Bristol tPa.) at the
ago Ut ZIG.
The writer was acquainted with Mme.
Bonacarte in the eighty sixth year OF
her age. Her great ambition was to live
TO be- "a hundred years old.
why that aaeI" was one day asked
her.
"Oh. because then / shall be too old
to SAT- from dying or leaving this
world" she replied. Aud because do
know about this world and do not knew
about the oiher."
grAved,eger named Scarlet lived to
DO ninety eight. His principal claim to
DO remembered DO, ond his age was that
hs buried two qusens-Catherine. Queen
Ut Henry WILL, and Mary, Queen Of
scots.