The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-05

Office Department in ottawa are very
much interested in a document that
passed through the department oinclaip
a few days ago. The document II the
property OF the Imperial Government
and contains a report which Is perfectly
reliable. The report gives the history
OF a man who is l3i years old, ana mas
been in the employ cf ne hnshsh
Postal Service for the last scyenty-sN
years. The mans name Is Robert ray
lor He was born In Scarva, north OF
ireland. I'm the reign OF George III. ne
was ffty-one yeas old when the DotlIo
OF Waterloo was fought. He was nve
years old when Napoleon was born, ana
he can clearly remember the revolt OF
the American Colonies against England
In fT76. The report further says that the
old gentleman still possesses all lis
faculties. and discharges all the duties OF
postmaster in his native NIloBe OF
Scarva. Mr.. Taylor IL said 10 nave
lived the life OF a batchalor until ne
passed the age OF 100 years and IN 1913
he married n lady whom he mad kASwn
for over fifty years"
Such instances. however, are not With
out modern precedent. for the COM
mentary OF DR.. Adam Clarke upol the
10th verse Of the Goth Psalm. "'rhe days OF
ten: and IL by reason OF strength ttey
be four-score years, yet is .helr stIeis'h
labor and sorrow" &c.
The following remarkable cases OF lon
gevity are given:
Thomas Parr. OF wilmington In Shrop-
shire. far outlived the term as set down
I'm the Psalm. At the age or eighty-
eight he married his first wife by whom
he had two children. At the age OF one
hundred and two he fell IN love with
Catherine Milton. by whom he had an u.
legitimate child. and for which ne ala
penance I'm the church, AT the age OF
one hundred and twenty he married
widow woman, and when he was one
hundred and thirty could perform any
operation of husbandry. He died at the
age of one hundred and fifty-two, "A. D.,
1895. He had seen ten Kings and Queens
of England.
Thomas Damme, OF leighton, near MIN
shul I'm Cheshire, lived one hundred and
fifty-four years. and died a. D.. 1913
Agnes simmer is another instance. she
lived at Camberwell in Surrey. Her hus-
band. Richard Simmer. died IN 1907, whom
she survived nlnety-two years she died
in 1899, aged one hundred and nineteen
years.
The Countess OF Desmond in Ireland.
u
was Obliged at tho age OF one hundred
and forty TO travel from Bristol TO Lon
don 10 solicit relief from the Court, being
then reduced 10 poverty. She renewed
her teeth two or three times and dlen
I'm 1912. aged one hundred and forty-five
years.
Henry Jenkins, Of Ellerton upon Swale,
I'm Yorkshire. was sent when boy about
twelve years OF age with a cart-load OF ar
rows TO Northallerton 10 be employed In
the battle of Flodden Field, which was
fought septmber 9, 1913. He was fish
erman. and often swan the rivers when
he was moro than one hundred years OF
agei 10 died A. d, 1910, being then one
hundred and sixty-nine years OF ago!
1 shall add one foreigner, Peter los
ton. a peasant OF Temiswar. In Hun
gary. The remarkable longevity OF this
man exceeds the age Of Isaac five years
OF Abraham ten. falls short Of Terah's
(Abrahams father twenty, and exceeds
that OF Major (Abraham's grandfather
thirty-seven years He died A. d., lI24'
az the extraordinary age Of one hun
bred and eighty-flve