The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-09-20
RECEIVED FOUR cENTENARIANs.
Pres. Poincare of France Had the Dis
tinction Recently.

Paris, Sept 20.-President Poincar
received four centenarians during his re
cent visit to the Limousin Country. TIT
eldest was l06 The youngest, 100 year
old, had been the village postmaster o
Vaulry for sixty-seyen years.
The president was told, as are all Wis
itors to the Limousin, that health anC
long life are the finest products of thC
region. Besides the four centenarians
the president was told of ten other per
sons who were 90 years old, and Of
twenty near the village of Vaulry, who
are in sound health, although well along
in the tenth decade.
NJ. Schomel- Roy, resident of Yer
saiiles, has attracted attention to him
self ON account of his age. He recently
started civil proceedings in an infringe
ment case, and it came out during the
hearing that he was born August 5, 1907
at Versailles and that he saw Napoleon
/ frequently. Owing to the fact that his
father had an appointment at Napo-
Icons court, NJ. Schomel-Roy frequent
ly played with the little king OF Rome.
Finest Specimen of Mammoth.
Count Stenboeh Fermor, of the island
of Great Layakersky, New Siberia, has
presented to the natural history mu-
scum in Paris what is considered to be
the finest specimen of mammoth yet
found
The gift is especially interesting be-
cause the animal had not finished di-
costing his last meal at the moment of
his death, countless centuries ago. Thus
hte savants are, for the first time, able
to study accurately the nature of the
flora of the far distant epoch; they have
simply to examine the contents of the
stomach. He was found in
an absolutely complete condition in a
strata of ice. The skin which is without
a scratch, is covered with reddish hair,
thick and soft to the touch as that of
a lap dog. The work of digging out the
monster from his primeval cold storage
and bringing him to Paris was one of
extreme difficulty. The body was cut
carefully into pieces, each one labelled,
and then carried 800 miles to rail-
way line on dog sledges.
The museum has come into possession
of the skeleton of an enormous dinosau-
rus found near Maiunga, on the west
coast of Madagascar, by the explorer
PeTrier de la Battle. Some idea of the
dimensions of this monster may be
gained from the fact that strong man
IAN barely lift one section of the verte-
brae. Although only partially disin
TERED, the natural history experts of
-he museum estimate from measure
nents of the parts they already have
hat this dinosaurian considerably ex
,eeds in size the diplodocus, plaster
'ast OF which Mr. Carnegie gave the
museum Another acquisition is the
skeleton of one of the fabulous birds
Snown to palaeontologists as apiornis,
which stood eighteen feet tall.
Paris Is Amused
Senior Maura, the Spanish Conserva
i've leader who has twice resigned the
of Spain, has way of
peakhg frankly to his royal master,
King Alfonso. Just now Paris is
unused at two remarks made by Maura
o the king in public.
When he resigned the first time the
tatesman said "kings who amuse
themselves at playing with crowns fire.
uently lose them"
On the second occasion he said:
"The premier in most constitutional
n