The Arizona champion., 1884-01-12
TIME AND THEORIES.

The recent deaths of the Earl of Mountcashell, who had entered his nine ty-frst year in August last, and of the Marquis of Donegal, who was eighty seven when he expired at Brighton, re mind us that time has still spared an unusual number of peers who first saw the light during the last century, or in the opening years of its successor, and are now in the full enjoyment of their faculties and their senses. The oldest member of the House of Lords is the Earl of Buckinghamshire, who was born on November l, l793. Next to him comes the Earl of Stradbroke, who was born on February IS, l794, and Wis count Eversly, who came into the world nine days later than Lord Stradbroke. In the following year-that is to say, on January IS, l795-Lord Mostyn, now the senior member of BroOks's club, drew his first breath, and it will be ob- served that each of these four patri- archal nobemen was born in the winter, the best time of the year, according to Adam Smith, for a boy to enter the world in northern attitudes if he desires as man to attain that questionable ad' vantage, length of years, for which Juvenal tells us that every mother puts up prayers to heaven on behalf o her newborn infant. Of noblemen like the Earl of Albemarle and Niscount Halifax, Lord Penrhon and NiscOunt Portman, who are octogenarians, there is long list, and it may be remarked witl reference to all those whom we have men toned, that much of their lives wa passed in the open air. Mir. J, D. Dou gall, writing to contemporary, ob serves that the longevity of sportsmel by whom he means shooters anC angleIs-has aIways been remarkable il this country. Thus the most indefati gable angler Mir. Dougall ever knew wa famous Captain Murray, who wieldeC his rod like an expert until he haC reached his ninetieth year. The cas- of Captain Horatio Ross, who was On of the best and hardest riders that eve crossed country when George ". as cended the throne, is well known t sportsmien, and we believe that this vet eran marksman, whose eye is not dim and whose natural force is unabated, al though his eightieth year has long beel left behind, still makes it his practice t shoot a stag whenever his birthda comes round. Not many months sine the late Earl of Wemyss event over t the majority" having retained sullicien vigor to shoot with undiminished skill and to ride hard after his hounds whel more than eighty years old. But wit all deierence to Mir. Dougall, the grea longevity which characterizes men am women of the English race is by n means confined to persons who take
 great deal of their time in the open aii The famous Lord EldOn, who sat upo the wOol-sack as Lord Chancellor, wit the exception of one year, from 1901 { 1927, was notorious for his dislike ( exercise, and he lived in full vigor unti all but a nonagenarian. It has Ofte been asserted and by none mor strongly than hy the late Sir Benjami Brodie-that free use of tobacco incompatible with the enjoyment of ul impaired health and the attainment ( long life. Yet Alexander von Hun boldt lived to eighty-three and retane his memory to the last, although he wa rarely without q pipe in his mouth, an paid no respect to the ordinary laws ( health laid down by physicians,- Lor don Telegraph.