Morning journal and courier., 1888-10-16

its value as to make it,praotically it impossible to put it in general use.

Nature tells about & paper recently read
 before the French Academy of Sciences by
 M. Emile Lavasseur on the "Centenarians
 now living in France" The first reports col lected gave the number of persons who had
 attained 100 years and upward at 1s4, but on
 these being thoroughly sifted no less than
 101 were struck out, leaving s3, but even of
 these there were no fewer than 67 who could
 not furnish adequate proof of their reputed
 age. In 16 casee, however. authentic records
 of birth or baptism were found, including
 that of a man born in Spain and baptized
 August 20, TITO. His life was spent almost
 wholly in France. All the other centenarians
 were reputed to be between 100 and 105 years
 of age, with the exception of a widow claim
 ing to be 112 years old. Of the s3 persons
 said to be centenarians women formed large
 majority, the proportion being 52 women to
 31 men. There were but few married couples,
 male and female oelibates, 23 widowers and fl widows. One of the latter was Mme. Rostkowski, 103 years of age. She enjoys a pension of 60 francs 8 month, allowed her by the French government in consideration of her late husbands military services. More centenarians exist in the southwestern de- partments than in the rest of the republic, while the basin of the Garonne-from the Pyrenees to the Puy de Dome contains as many as all the rest of France put together. M. Lavasseur finds that the chances of per-
 son in this century reaching 100 years of age are one in 16, 800.
 Under the heading "Warning to Democ- IL i, 1 following from correspondent who is tray l cling through the State of New York: I am ! hurrying through the western counties, for I am sick of this eternal button-holing and ! corner grocery tariff question. You can ! make up your miEd that, unless some extraordinary change occurs between now | and November 6, Harrison will go down to High Brigde with something like 10000 plurality. If New York city can overcome
 that Cleveland is all right; if not he will ! have to pack up and come back to Buffalo. You can get no idea in your present sur roundings of the situation in the country. | The Republicans are making 8 fierce, intelli- gent and SO far successful fight. It was 8 mistake for Cleveland to raise the tariff issue. I can see that now for the first time. The
 surface argument is, as you know, all in fa- vor of the Republicans, and that is the argu- ment that catches the countrymen. There are large defections of lifelong Democrats
 among the farmers everywhere have been. In Rochester the men in control of the Dem ocratic organization will knife Cleveland
 sure. They are very bitter against him, and
 in private make no bones of it. In Steuben county the Democrats all smashed up.
 Clevelaad's appointees are lot of milk and
 water jackanapes, who let their enemies
 scoop everything. The only notable excep- tion is John Hanlon, internal revenue collec-
 tor, who lives at Medina, and is making the
 most extraordinary fight in Orleans county I have yet come across. He's daisy. The Dem
 ocrats in Niagara county are saving their
 money to use on election day. God bless themI