Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1900-06-29
AGE LIMIT OF GREAT MEN.
Out of II Men OF Genius Less Than
Half Attained TO.

AGE LIMIT OF GREAT MEN
Out of II Men OF Genius Less Than
Half Attained 10,
A great man does not always attain
a ripe old age; In fact, hardly half of
the greatest men of modern and an
cient times have reached that limit OF
age set by the Bible-70. Among
statesmen Mirabeau was AZ, Pitt At,
Caesar 55, Richelieu 81, Cromwell SO,
Washington CT, Charlemagne II, Fred
erick the Great IA, Disraeli Is, Angus
tus rs, Bismarck SO, TaI1eyrand 81. OF
great conauerors, Alexander the Great
died at 80, Napoleon at 81, Hannibal at
IS, Themistocles at SIS, M2rius at II,
Marlborough at 72, lilly at 72. Butcher
at rs, Barnadotte at 80, Wellington at
SIS, Xenophen at sc, Moltke at 81. The
age at death of philosophers was,
Spinoza IA, Deseartes So, Hegel 81,
Aristotle 62, Socrates g. Leibnitz 70,
Linnaeus 20, Copernicus 70, Calico IS,
Kant 70, Plato 80, Newton "a, Hum
boldt SO. The longevity of great writ
ers and poets is as follows: Byron 36,
Schiller As, Maliere ST, Virgil 81,
Shakespeare 81, Dante Sc, Dickens 81,
Horace 81, Racine So. Scott 81, Milton
IS, Cervantes 68, Aeschylus SO, Rabe-
lais 70, Petrarch 20, Euripides II, Cor
nellie rs, Victor Hugo SO, Goethe 49,
Voltaire "a, sophocles 80. To paint
ers death came at the ages stated: Ra-
phaet 81, Corregio 40, Van Dyk Il. Hol-
bein 81, Valesquez 81, Rembrandt So,
Rubens 81, Michaelangelo 80, Titan SO.
Musicians died at these ages: Schubert
81 Mozart 35, Mendelssohn SO, Chopin
80, Weber 80, Schumann Al, Beethoven
56, Bach IS, Palestrina 20, Spohr IS,
Handel Is, Haydn II. And four great
religious leaders died at these ages:
Calvin at "a, Mahomet at 81. Luther at
66 Courteous at H.
INDIAN MAGICTANS NOT CLEVER
Their Tricks Are Old and Surpassed by
Many Europeans.
From Harpers Magazine: The In
dian eonjurers are not very clever
They offer no new tricks and no Won
derful ores. Their. counterparts IN
China are many times more deft, au-
dacious and original. The tricks OF
causing mango tree to grow in the
presence of a crowd is the most Yaunt-
ed tHingth Indians do, and that
failed to see, though it is pFactfeed by
many of these yagabonds. Several per-
sons who have witnessed 1t told US
that It is worked beneath 4 eteth. Or
sack and that it seems as If it might
easily be done by drawing a small
young plant from the performers
clothing and setting it up in the dirt
under the covering. The so=called tree
is usually but few inehes-at the
most a foot-in height. However.
against the reports Of such skeptics
ue must weigh the testimony of many
famous travellers. q = Nearly all the
coniurers we saw were also snake
fharmefs. Their work with serpeats
Is extremely interesting, even after one
learns how harmless are their snakes,
The reptiles are carried in baskets and
bags and are of all sizes. The
eobfas are best worth watching y
Usually a nor goose is put out to fight
3 cobra, but the ferretlike animal IS
not only spiritless, but remains SO.
never saw or heard of anything coms
from such g combat except once, at
Delhi, when the eonjurer was not look
ing and a large serpent killed and hall
swallowed the mengoose. And the
most interesting thing about that was
the noise Of the owners lamentation