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alleged to have seen 130, was attributed to
the fact that from youth he never drank
wine ate meat, wore shoes or cut his hair,
and that he dressed only in linen. He lived
five years without speaking.
Walking appears 20 be the form of ply
steal exercise most favore ed by eentenarians.
1t is related of one Macdonald, who died
In Highlands, Scotland. In 1871. aged one
hundred and one: He was a great pedes-
trian; and the year before he died, at the
age of one hundred undertook wager to
walk ten miles in TWO hours and half,
which he performed. He was accordingly
presented to the king at Windsor" Colo
mel George Perkins of Norwich, Conn.,. who
died thirteen years ago, aged one hundred,
made practice of walking four miles day
until within a few years of his death. Mary
Wilkinson of Yorkshire, England, who in
lIsS died at one hundred and nine, walked
to London when she was past ninety The
distance was 2sO miles. She made it in five
days and three hours. Mary Mcdonnell, a
vigorous old woman of Magheratempany.
Ireland, In 1854, when one hundred and
seventeen. walked fourteen miles. Sally
Norris who recently died near Parkers-
burg, W. Va at the age of one hundred
and thirteen, had up to two years previous
to her death walked twenty miles, to town
and back, one day in each week.
Cases of Regeneration.
A conspicuous number Of centenarians
have enjoyed their favorite sports and
pastimes even in their very last days. Sieur
Dason de Veger of Lourday, France. who
died in 1744, aged one hundred and eighteen,
rode hunting fifteen days before his
death" Bartholomew Rymer, a Yorkshire
gsmekeepef, who ended ascentury of vigor-
Gus life in 1791, "shot game flying in his
ninety ninth year" One Hastings, an Eng
lishman, dying in 1850, erode to the death
of stag when near ninety" In the last
century of his life he was a fisherman and
swan in the river after he was one hun
dred, states the biographer of Henry Jen-
kinS before mentioned.
Numerous centenarians appear to have
experienced actual processes of rejuvena-
ton Lord Bacon mentions the case OF
the Irish Countess of Desmond, alleged
to have lived to be 145, and to have re-
newed her natural teeth several times. An
other centenarian had four new sets Of
teeth and the color of his hair and beard
had been frequently changed from black
to gray and from gray to black" Mary How
of Derbyshire. England, who died at H.
cut several new teeth and renewed the
color of her gray locks. "A few months be-
fore his death he had several new teeth
and his hair, grown gray by age, be-
came black, its original COLOR is reported
of one Mazarelle, Viennese, of the eigh-
teenth century. Susan Edmonds. con-
temporary English certenarian, had new
hair of a fine brown color, which began
to turn gray a few months before her
DEATH" Francis Secardi Hongo, Vene
ton consul at Smyrna. renewed his teeth
and youthful black hair after his Tooth
year. Thomas Edgar, who died in Edin-
burgh, 1884, aged 1OS, dispensed with
spectacles at eighty-eigh and thereafter
read the smallest print with his naked eyes.
Predestined to Live.
That some individuals are really pre-
destined to live past the century mark is
indicated by cases wherein life has been
entered with a handicap, or yet endured
for more than 100 years, or wherein 1t has
miraculously run a gauntlet of ever
threatening accident and distress. She
was an idiot from her birth" is narrated
of Sarah Sherdley, an English woman. who
died in 1890, aged 105. Though born deaf
and dumb, Mrs. Gray of Northfleet, Eng
land, who died in ITO, saw 121 years.
England. died at 1O5. in 1867, although "he
had not been in bed for fifty years" The
same yea, there died in London, aged 1O3,
two beggars who. among other acts of
barbarity, put out her eyes to move COM
passion" Lewis Corano of Padua, Italy,
''at seventy was overthrown in his coach
and arm dis1ocated;" yet he lived to write
treatise on The Birth and Death of
Man. before dying a natural death in 1886,
at the age of 1O4. An account Of one John
Tice of Worcestershire, England, who died
in 1774, aged 125 states that when he was
eighty tree fell upon him and broke both
his legs and that when 100 he tainted, fell
into his fireplace and was severely burnt.
Centenarians run to all extremes of physi-
cal build. He was one of the most cor
pulent men in the county, says the biog-
rapher of a man 107. He was a little,
emaciated man." states that of another
130 A dwarf ''only two feet eight inches In
height died in her 101st year. A giant
seven feet six inches tall broke this record
by seventeen years. A woman dying at
strong woman ''she exhibited signs of
extreme tight lacing is quoted from the
medical report of a post-mortem performed
upon woman Of 106 dying from burn.
Eject of Marriage.
Married life is productive Of long life,
according to many medical authorities.
But Noah Raby. said to be the oldest man
in New Jersey. was still bachelor when
recently visited at Piscatawa on his 125th
birthday. Margaret McDowal, an Edin-
burgh woman. dying at 1O6 had married
and survived thirteen husbands" yet Betty
Bowling of Sparksville, Ind, was a maiden
at 101 when reported few years ago. A
109-year-old Englishman of Broadwater
married six wives. three of them after he
house in which he was born Yet one
Peter Mestanea of Veniel, Marcia, is said
to have lived in bachelorhood 130 years.
William Haseling, pensioner of Chelsea
College, England, married and buried two
wives after he was 100, and the third, who
survived him, he married at the age of
no" Charles Cotterel and his wife of
Philadelphia lived together in the married
state ninety-eight years in great unison
and harmony, and died within four days
of each other" in 1861. Edward Drinker
of Philadelphia was four times married.
and died at 1O3." Both died the same
year, in the 14Sth year of their marriage
leaving two sons and two daughters, be-
sides many grandchildren. The youngest
son was lie years of age" is written of
John Rovin and his wife of Temeswar
Hungary, alleged to have been. respectively,
1I2 and 164 when dying in 1741.
An account of Margaret Krasiowna Of
koninia, Poland. who died in 1863 and
who, In her ninety fifth year, 1t is claimed
married her third husband, aged one hun
dred and five. states: During the four