The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-15

And died by fall from a cherry tree then!
 -and still more gravely examine the
 purile creduIity of the famous Lord ! Chancellor Bacon, who trtats with re- 1 spect the testimony that she lived till she was seven score years old; that she i did Dentire twice or thrice; Casting her old Teeth, and others Coming to their Place" But there seems, however, to have been no reasonable ground for ; doubting that she really did survive to an age well beyond the limits of her century. About two years ago the fol-
 lowing letter appeared in the Irish | Iimes:" ''In to-day's Irish Times in
 Passing Events I see mentioned the death of Miss Mary Ann DeFoe, her
 great-great grandfather having been
 born in I661-five generations, covering a period of two hundred and forty-one years. think can go one better. My great-great- -grandfather was born about
 the same time, 1861 or 1862. Has raised
 troops in England and fought at the
 battle of the Boyne. My great-grand- father was born in the nineties of the
 same century. have book in which is his signature over the date I'll. My
 grandfather was born in 1745, my father
 in 1795, and myself in the sixties, being
 still on the right side of forty. My
 grandfather, who died in 1S4O, when a
 very young lad, remembered his grand
 father, then a very old man; so there
 are plenty of people still alive here who
 saw man that saw man who fought
 at the battle of the Boyne. have in my possession some of James HIS table
 linen, taken after the same battle"
 The influence of the heredity in the genesis of long life is well known to all
 ebservant persons. A case, in point is mentioned by The Lancet" of June 4, \ 1904. A man had just died in the Black
 burn workhouse at the undoubted age of one hundred and five His mother also lived to one hundred and five, and his sister was killed'' at one hundred and two. This man had been ia snuff taker and habitual smoker, and was not averse to a glass of beer" It is, indeed, very remarkable fact that, all the outcries which have been raised against certain habits by philanthropists, as destructive of health and life, not one of them is en- tirely corroborated by the records of centenarianism. Persons of almost all habits and occupations-even some of 1 the most unsanitary and most danger | be found enrolled on the l same list. The North American Indi- | an, who lived a life of continuous ex- posture, in unchanging filth of personal 1 habit, and the modern chemist, who l spent all his more active hours in a I close laboratory, necessarily inhaling | the foul gases of his myriad experi- ments, have both lived to the age of | one hundred and three. The list in- | dudes philosophers and criminals, sol | liers and sneaks, teetotalers and | lrunkards, globe-trotters and denizens of single room tor cell), nobles and servants, millionaires and paupers. The annals of longevity inform us that Lady Lawson, who died at the age # one hundred and sixteen, never 'racticed ablutions of any kind, or lardly in any degree, because, as she llleged, those people who washed themselves were always taking cold or aying the foundation of some dread ul disorder. And, moreover. that her apartment was only occasionally Wept out, but never washed; the win lows were so encrusted with dirt that hey hardly admitted a. ray of light" n presence of such facts, dognatists anitary should surely be somewhat nore modest!-New York Tribune. I;