Omaha daily bee., 1896-03-21
THE OLD INHABITANTS.

Hiram Lester recently died at the pool
form in Henry county, Georgia, at the age
of 1873.
Mrs. William Allen of Pilot View, Ky,
celebrated her sOth birthday the other day
by completing the cutting Of her third full
set of teeth.
Charles l.. Tiffany, head of the Tiffany
house in New York, celebrated his Saith
birthday the other day. He is hale and
hearty and attends to business affairs every
day of his life with clockwork regularity
| He began his career by opening a little sta
tionery and fancy goods shop over sixty
years ago.
The most influential people in Europe are
old. Queen Victoria is nearly n, Lord
Salisbury is 65, Prince Hohenlohe is II,
Count Ga~luchowsky, the new Austrian chan
cellor, is IS; Prince Lobanoff, the Russian
chancellor, is 81; Signor Crispi, the Italian
premier, is n: the pope and Mr.. Gladstone
are Sc, and Prince Bismarck is 81.
Walter McEwing of Coopersville, Mich.
| celebrated the centennial anniversary of his
birth on the 1st inst. He was born near
| Paisley, Scotland. When he was 13 he went
! to sea on a merchant vessel as an appren-
tice. For mere than fifty years he sailed
on the Atlantic and between Scotland and
the West Indies, and also on the great lakes
of America.
Mr.. Tracy Turnerelli recently died at
bennington, England, at the age of "a. Mr..
Turnerelli was the nan who collected $4,000
peI.ries for a silver-gilt laurel wreath for
the earl of Beaconsfield when the latter
returned to England after the Berlin treaty
had been signed. Beaconsfield, of course,
refused to receive it. Mr.. Turnerelli kept
himself before the public by writing patriotic
verses, and four years ago erected a most
remarkable marble monument to himself at
bennington cemetery.
James S. Horner of Pittston, Pa, who is
Daorlv 90 yEarS Of age was horn on Pit
cairn island, that wonderful little colony
far out in the Pacific ocean. He has lived
in Pittston since 1884. His life has been
e%ventful, he having visited the Indies, Aus
tralia, New Zealand, Africa, Portugal, Spain,
Germany, France, England, Scotland, Ire
land and Wales. Mr.. Horner was in the
English army twelve years, and was wounded
in the leg and arm at the massacre at Delhi,
in India, in 1857. He speaks seven differ
ent languages; is living with his second
wife, and by his first wife had seventeen chill
dren.
Two remarkable cases Of longevity were re-
called recently by a conversation between
several gentlemen in this city, relates the
aShelbyville Qll.) Gazette. They were dis
cussing the death of Rev. George Mccall,
the veteran Baptist preacher, when it was
authenticity stated that Mr.. McCall's great
grandfather lived to the ripe old age of 127
years. He was a bachelor at 100 and took a
notion to get married. He carried out his
ldea ana was married. lhree SONS were porn
to him, and he lived TO see the oldest son
old enough to vote. This was considered re-
markable, but a gentleman in the crowd,
whose character ana standing religiously
and socially are above reproach, told an au-
thentic account of the life of his great uncle,
who was one of Georgia's pioneer citizens.
This old gentleman lived to be 1870 years old.
He lived in a log cabin, in the northern end
of which was cut a square hole. The old
man turned the head of his bed to that
hole, and slept that way in the warmest and
coolest weather. His wife died when he was
about 80 years old, and for many years he
lived as a widower. At the age of 115 he
cut an entirely new set of teeth, and at the
age of 1923 one morning he saddled his own
horse, sprang into the saddle, and rode thirty
miles to address a widow and to ask her to
be his wife. He evidently was rejected, for
he rode back that day and lived seven years
longer.