The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-05
THE WORLDS GRAND OLD MAN.
In Harness Until Long Past the Al
lOtted Span of Life.
TWestminster Budget.

Mr.. Gladstone's splendid mental and
powers serve to recall other cell
ehrated instances in modern times, where
remarkable vitality preserved life far be-
Y9nd the ordinary. span. Thus, Titan,
VINO spent all his life about a court, paint
eo line picture at the age of g. At 80
he sun retained his energy for work. and
undertook large picture for the Francis
cans. Unfortunately he died of the
Plague in his Tooth year, or there is no
knowing what he might not still have
achieved. Michael Angelo, too. the most
distinguished sculptor Of the modern
leaIly in his SSth year. Crebillon.
the french dramatist, wrote his lie Tri-
u tiI1 at the age of 81, and did not die
IL I'll seven years after that. At the age of
IS, Voltaire superintendent the arrange
ments for the performance of his last
tragedy, Irene" Frances Barney Nine.
the memoirs of her father in her S0th year,
ara she survived for eight years after.
mat. BENJAMIN Franklin the great
american patriot, was in office as presi-
age of 50. --e
Herrick lived to be 50: old Izaak Walton
wrote his beautiful Lives of Dome"
died in 1883 at the age of co. S1a a ass 1 ah
Evelyn, of Diary fame, lived to he Rs
Sir Isaac Newton rendered active service
70 the royal society as its president when
he was So. Charles Maclllin. the dramat-
Isl and actor, author of 1.-THE Man of the
World" lived to the patriarchal age of
1UI. Colly Ciber, another well-known dra-
lived to be Sc; and two of the late poets
laureate, WadSworth and Tennyson. were
octogenerlans. Joanna Bailie still an
other dramatist, was writing vigorously
IN her old age, and lived to her seth year.
But Il we want to see what the intellec-
tual faculties are capable of in the sun
posed sere and yellow leaf" we need
only turn to the works of the master of
fine, nervous English Walter Cava oa 7 on,
dor Five scenes, or dialogues, being the
last imaginary Conversations" written
by by the poet. were produced between his
SSth and S9th year: and one or two AT
least are worthy of their pred SCISSORS
The celebrated Lord Iyndhurst
Who was thrice lord chancellor of Eng
.and. was threatened with blindness after
ne became an octoSena rian Like Mr.
Gladstone, he successfully underwent an
operation for cataract, only in the case
the courageous old man was 80 years Of
age, ana he spoke in the house of lords
aIterW5ru. NJ. Jules Simon, the eminent
living French statesman, is another octo-
&c narlan who is about to undergo an on
Grafton for cataract The great and YER
S Sdtlle Lord Brougham entered into debate
long after he was so, and wrote more than
one work after he was 49, The nresenf
writer conveCsed with him when he was
g. s. ana ne then seemed to have at his
at nome and abroad. Victor Hugo. the
iHustrious: was in literary harness to the
last. Earl Gray is still a sleepless noliti-
cal critic al the age Of 81, while Mr.. c. P
nlllers, the great free trader. and the
Rather of the house of commons >, IS
aple to attend in parliament at the age Of
%. Archdeacon Dennison Mr.. Gladstone'e
oId an lag gonlst, is still hale and vigorous
IN his S9th year and we NAV recall an in
terestlng fact connected with the late Sir
Harry Narney. that at 80 years of age he
ran race with a number of men, all I'D
victor. W