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Extraordinary Longevity.
The records prove that the following per-
sons have attained an age exceeding 1% years.
The year designated in the left hand column
is the year of death. When not otherWISe
specified, the subject was a resident of the
British Isles.
Year. Ago.
1759—Don Cameron ...... . ......... . ........... 130
1766-John Delasomer ......................... 131
_,..——George King .................. . ..... 129
1767—John Taylor.. ............... 130
1774—William Beattie ......... ................ 133
1778—John Watson ........................... 130
1780—Robert McBride ..... ... ........... . ...... 127
. . . .—-William Ellis ....... .. .................. 131
1764—Eliza Taylor ............................. 131
1775—Peter Garden.... 131
761—Eliza Merchant .......................... 133
”Tile—Mrs. Keith ........... . ................... 133
1767—Francis Ange ............................ 134
1777—J ohn Brooke ............................ 1%
1714-—Jane Harrison ........................ . . . 135
1759—James Shellie ............................ 136
HUS—Catherine Noonan . . . . . .................. 136
Nil—Margaret Foster ......................... 136
1776—John Miarait ............................ 137
1772—J. Richardson ........................... 137
1793—. . .. Robertson ........................... 137
1757—William Sharpley ........................ 138
1768—J. McDonough ............ . ........... 138
17“? . . . . Fairbrother ......................... 138
HTS—Mrs. Clum ............ . ................... 138
.. . .—Countess of Desmond.. . .. ............... 140
1778—Swarling (a monk) ...................... 14:2
171'3—Charles McFiuley ....................... 143
1757~John Effingham ......................... 144
INS—Evan IVilliams ........... . ............. 145
HOG—Thomas Winsloe ......................... 146
1772—J. C. Drakcnberg ....................... 146
1652—William Mead ........................... 148
NIB—Francis Confi ........................... 150
1542—Thomas Newman ......... . .............. 152
HESS—James Bowels ........................... 152
.. .—Henry West ............................ 159 .
HMS—Thomas Damme. . . . . ............. . ...... 149
1635—Thomas Parr ............................ 152
1797—Joseph Surrington ....................... 160
NOS—William Edwards ...................... 168
IMO-Henry Jenkins ......................... 169
WED—Louisa. Truxo ............................ 175
1W8010man Nibet. ................. - ........ 143
1822—Lucretia Stewart ........................ 130
1.839—William James (South Carolina) ....... 132
1846—T-homas Lightfoot (Canada) ............ 127
lSfil—Marion Moore (England) ................ 131
1869—. . .. Lockhart ( iowa) ................... 127
1878—Eulalia Perez (California) ............... 140
....—Edna Goodman (Arkansas) .............. 12?
1888—Granny Rose (South Carolina) .......... 131
1889—. Wapmarek (Germany) ............. 126
The cases of Thomas Parr, Henry Jenkins
and Louisa Truxo are the best authenticated
of any in the list, notwithstanding that they
are given as being among the oldest. In 1887
James James, a negro, living near Santa Rosa,
Mexico, proved to the satisfaction of a num-
ber of doctors that he was 135 years old—St.
Louis Republic.
Chinese Floating Gardens.
In the month of April a bamboo raft, 10 to
12 feet long and about half as broad, is pre-
pared. The poles are lashed together with
interstices ‘of an inch between each. Over
this a layer of straw an inch thick is spread,
and then a coating two inches thick of adhe-
sive mud, taken from the bottom of a canal
or pond, which receives the seed. The raft
is moored to the bank in still water, and re- .
quires no further attention. The straw soon
gives way and the soil also, the roots draw-
ing support from the water alone. In about
twenty days the raft becomes covered with
the creeper (ipomoea reptams), and its stems
and roots are gathered for cooking. In
autumn its small white petals and yellow
stamens, nestling among the round leaves,
present a very pretty appearance. In some
places marshy land: is profitably cultivated-
in this manner.
Besides these floating vegetable gardens
there are also floating rice fields. Upon rafts
constructed as above weeds and adherent
mud were placed as a. flooring, and when the
rice shoots were ready for transplanting they
were placed in the floating soil, which, being
adhesive and held in place by weed roots, the
plants were maintained in position through-
out the season. The rice thus planted ripened
in from sixty to seventy in place of one hun-
dred days. The rafts are cabled to the shore,
floating on lakes, pools or sluggish streams.
These floating fields served to, avert famines,
whether by drought or flood. When other
fields were submerged and their crops sodden
or rotten, these floated and flourished, and
when a drought prevailed they subsided with
the falling water and while the soil around
was arid advanced to maturity. Agricultural
treatises contain plates representing rows of
extensive rice fields moored to sturdy trees
on the banks of rivers or lakes which existed
formerly in the lacustrine regions of the
lower Yangtse and Yellow river.—-China
Review.
Unhappy Persia.
The shah himself is not a Persian, but «
Turk, the hereditary chief of a Turcoman
tribe; the language of his private and domes‘
tic life is not I‘ersian, but Turkish. With
the instruments of oppression ready to his
hand, he is all powerful for evil, provided he
is content with the lion’s share of a plundered
province or the wealth of a subject convicted
of being too rich. He is powerless for good
or for a single reform so long as the Mujta-
' bids, the priestly order in Persia, with their
enormous influence over a. superstitious peo-
ple, dread and dislike “infidel” and western
innovations likely to weaken their own
power.
The great mass of the people are as apa-
thetic in political matters as they are fanati-
cal in religion. As for their capacity to
rouse themselves to the hope or the conception
of better things in store for their unhappy
country, those who indulge the dream must
take them as they are, and not be led astray
by analogies of free and Christian popula-
tions that have no bearing on the question.
Superstition and vice have debased and en-
feebled the national life of Persia. to an extent
that the ordinary English mind finds diflicult
to conceive. The incredible toil and squalid
misery of the ordinary peasant’s life is en-
dured with one object, which is to amass
sufficient savings to enable him to go on pil-
grimage to the Shiah shrines once in his life
at least, which done, he becomes a beggar
again—London Spectator.
Jefferson Davis' RIM-
When Jefferson Davis was captured in
Georgia, at the close of the war, a fine En-
glish made rifle was found in his possession.
It was presented to him by a British blockade
runner for his personal protection, while he
was living in the executive mansion at Rich-
mond, and it is said that he used to practice
with it at odd times until he became quite an
expert shot. . After the capture the rifle was
sent to Washington and finally found its way
into the Ordnance museum, where it was
labeled “J elf Davis’ Rifle,” and exhibited
with many other relics of the late rebellion.
When the Ordnance museum was broken up
some time ago, the historical gun wan sent to
the Springfield arsenal.-—New York Star.
Henry Shaw’s Bequest.
St. Louis profits largely by the will of Mr.
Henry Shaw, its noted philanthropist, the
founder of the Shaw botanical garden. His
estate is estimated to be worth nearly $5,000,-
000. The botanical garden and park he leaves
to the city, in care of a well selected board of
trustees, and in addition to this he leaves
property, the income of which is to form a
fund for improving and adding to the gift.
Nearly all of Mr. Shaw’s estate is left for
this purpose. It is one of the largest be-
quests of the kind ever made in the United
States—Frank Leslie‘s Newspaper.
CONFLICTING ' ADVICE.
Burdette Reads Up on Farming and
Chicken Raising and Gets All Mixed Up.
Talk about dissensions in religion, about
warring cree-is and battling churches, if you
want to get lmee deep in a swamp of conflict-
ing views and opinions, wade through a file
of agricultural papers. Now, there’s nothing
vague, intangible, invisible and abstract 1n
agriculture. The ground is real and the
crops are sometimes real; in the case of an
amateur ' gardener who moves out of towu
because he can save a year’s rent on June
peas, I grant you there is a degree of abstrac-
tion that makes the science of aerated meta-
physics solid as a football match. But in
the soft and thawing weeks of spring a loam
farm in a clay country is about as real as
they make ’em.
But now, I read in my favorite agricultural
paper the other day that a man who “had a
patch clay over rock basted it heavily with
coal ashes,” and myl Talk about richness!
And crops! Such melons! And peas! And
such corn! Don’t talk. I went straight
away to the kitchen and gave orders that
every handful of coal ashes was to be placed
in fruit jars and kept in the refrigerator
until such time as I could have it applied to
the garden. No matter what price the
neighbors might offer for it, not an ounce of
it was to be sold. '
Then I went back to the desk and turned
over to the next page of the paper, and a
farmer and market gardener in Hennessy
county said that a mixture of pounded glass,
rock salt, alkali and brimstone, poured on red
hot, was far preferable, as afertilizer, to coal
ashes. He said he had killed every tree in a
healthy orchard, and made the fairest kitchen
garden in the Pomona valleya howling waste
by light applications of coal ashes. My blood
ran cold as I hastened out once more to noti-
fy the senescbal that if I found one flake of
coal ashes about the castle within fifteen
minutes from the ukase (oo-kaz) Iwould hang
a few traitors, more or less, from the fourth
story hook in the Martino tower.
Then I went back and read that any man
who kept hens'and wanted eggs must be pre
pared to spend most of his income on corn,
but it would be the best investment he ever
made. Nothing like corn, not cracked, but fed
in whole grains, for making hens lay; it made
them lay seven times a week When nothing
else would, and in fact it was the only thing
that would make hens lay all the year round.
Straightway I ordered a. carload of corn to
be puichased for the cackling denizens of
Crocus Hall, but before the messenger had set
forth to comer the corn market I read from
another expert that “Rough on Rats” was
much bettv: for hens than corn, inasmuch as
it killed firm at once, thereby saving great
expense of keeping and was quite as produc-
tive when viewad as an egg plant. He closed
a narrative of his experience with corn by
piously hoping that the man who first sug-
gested the destruction of all the poultry in
America by the use of corn as a food might
never, in this world or the next, be permitted
to eat a pullet, or taste custard, omelette, egg
hog, or anything else in which the hen or her
product entered as a component part. He
said you must feed little else but than pound-
ed bone.
While I was wondering whose bones I
would like to pound my eye fell upon the tes-
timonial of one of the leading poultcrers in
New York state, who said that he had lost
about ninety-eight of the finest hens that
ever noted the fool in their sanest moments,
by the ignorance or malice of a hired man,
who had mixed a spoonful of pounded bone
in their food one Sunday morning, while he,
the owner, was at church. He said that when
he came home and found what had been done
he chased the soulless imbecile clear across
the township with a neck yoke, and if bed a
caught him he’d a kicked him to death with
a hay teddor.
So I let up on the corner and the market
broke all to pieces. I am now feeding my
hens on anything» they like, same as I have
been doing all summer. They wander around
the place and make their own selection, and
if there is anything that I particularly~ don’t
want them to have, they use it for dessert.
However, there are. just two things in ag and
poultri culture I would like to know: I’Vhat
is good to put on land, and what is the best
kind of feed to scatter about your estate to
make your hens lay and poison your neigh—
bor’s—Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle.
Fishing in the Wilsons.
An invitation has been received from a
party on the upper pond to visit their camp,
and we thought this a good opportunity to
try the fishing there, so one morning found
us paddling in that direction. As we passed
our old fishing ground we concluded to stop
for half an hour and try our luck. Each of
us had a rod and a hand line, and all the hooks
were covered with worm bait.
Before long I felt a bite—not a rush and a
grab as a half pounder is likely to make, but
a deliberate trial of the bait. I waited for
the next bite, which was sure to come. It
came, and then I felt him indeed. He would
not budge an inch, and, as I was using a very
light leader, to drag him up to the surface by
the usual hand line method was impossible. I
pulled as much as I dared. however, and at
last he stopped shaking his head and started,
as it seemed to me, at about sixty miles an
hour, and away from the boat. The line was
wound on a. stick, and I remember now how
that stick danced around in the boat, as the
line ran through my fingers. I snubbed him
all I dared, and at last turned him. Now he
came directly for the boat, and it seemed as
though I couldn’t get the line in fast enough.
Then under the boat like a shot, and again I
had to pay out line. After a while he began
to tire. I asked for the landing net, and
from the blank looks of the boys I knew it
had been left at home.
Resolved not to lose the fish, I played him
very carefully, till at length he turned on his
side from sheer exhaustion, and then insert-
ing my fingers in his gills I lifted him quickly
into the boat. He weighed three pounds and
a half, the largest trout it has ever been my
fortune to catch yet—G. W. Bardwell in
Outing.
When They Sing of Love.
When poet and novelist pass into the fif-
ties, we see by many an example that either
they cannot or will not have much to do
with the subtleties or the glories of a pas-
sion that fills half the romance books and
created their writers To sing of love rap-
turously, to exalt it, to analyze and illus-
trate it in a hundred ways, is a delight when
you are a young man of genius under its in-
fluence; and not only a delight: it is evi-
dently understood to be a foremost duty to
mankind. So it is with us in our salad days,
and in the days of summer; but when July
is past, and August, the mood changes. As
September wears through, the Michaelmas
green goose seems as likely to be the bird of
love as any other, and as worthy of celebra-
tion. Arrived at the autumnal time of life
they who still tune the lyre to the old strain
do so with a. faint uncertainty, as if it were
not quite the dignified thing. Or they cease
from it altogether, or tune it to a mocking
goose song, something like the serenade that
Mephistopheles sings in Gounod’s “Faust,”
which is almost as much of a wonder in its
wayasthe sacred music of hell which the'
same personage delivers into Margaret’s ear
from the cathedral chapeL—Nineteenth Cen-
tury.
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THOSE WRINKLED nHANDS.
Those wrinkled hands that o‘er a woman‘s breast
Now folded lie in death’s last solemn sleep,
Alas! how cold and still; but God knows best;
His time will choose; while we in silence weep,
Who had by those dear hands been often blest,
But now shall miss the love that flowed so deep.
No more shall we enjoy their soft caress,
Nor feel again their clinging tenderness.
In those lines where the plow of time has run,
And heaped with furrows deep the trace of years,
The marks of toll, the change of'shade and sun.
The record of a lengthened life appears;
Many a tale they tell of joys begun,
And hope soon ended in adash of tears.
Those veins of blue her sunny skies unroll,
That skin so fair the whiteness of her soul.
But Io! as we read on what sight is this?
A cherub form with dimpled hands and small.
Bright golden locks, and lips that tempt a kiss,
Like paintings seen on old cathedral wall;
Some angel sent from distant worlds of bliss,
That sunbeams bring to this dim earthly ball.
Again we look, a laughing girl is seen—
To school she skips or ramps in orchards green.
In these oddly fashioned lines next we trace
The vision of a maiden sweet and fair;
By garden gate she waits; upon her face
Bests liglit‘s rosy tinge, as if gathered there
The crimson blush of thousand mornings” grace;
Or is it that glow of bliss beyond compare,
Aught else that love‘s warm thrill, as there she
stands,
Holding in her own another‘s tender hands?
Life‘s busy noon unfolds; and what befell
In sober age; how hands now pale and cold
Were moved to kindly acts, oft strove to quell
A neighbor's grief, and wipe the gathering mold
Of death from aching brows. Sickbeds can tell;
And poor their saintly deeds confess with old.
Then rest, sweet hands, with scars of battle won,
Like folded banners when the day is done.
—Varnum Lincoln.
“110 Will Save the Melon?
Modern human skill seems to be equal to
the solving of many problems over which our
grandfathers puzzled in vain. This is partic-
ularly evident in the matter of preserving
food indefinitely, and of so prolonging the
season in which to enjoy the eating of arti-
cles formerly regarded as perishable. But
there are, as yet, limits set upon man’s abil-
ity in the art preservative. There is the
melon. Today it is peerless among table
fruit, and refreshes the palates of rich and
poor. To—morrow it will pass into enforced
retirement, for no man has discovered the
art of its preservation. Who would not de-
light to bring forth a perfect, untainted
melon as an accompaniment to one"s Thanks-
giving turkey? And who, possessed of even
average means, would not willingly pay a
round sum for such a melon at Christmas
time? The plebeian pumpkin is arrogant in
its defiance of time and decay. The Iordly
melon yields quickly to both. The human
voice can be so engrafted upon a waxen cyl-
inder as to be enduring. Yet the melon,
with its hard, compact covering, must be en’
joyed on the moment or not at all. Is there
no Edison of the melon patch, who shall we
serve this delicious fruit asthe wizard of
electricity has preserved a. more perishable»
thing? There is a fortune in store for such a
man, and millions will rise up and call him
blessed.——Pittsburg Bulletin.
Advertisements on the Quilt.
Some brilliant woman with a business head
upon her shoulders has invented a new fea-
ture for church fairs called the advertising
spread. Business houses and firms are visited
and requested to send in their advertisements
printed: upon-a twelve inch squareof white
cotton cloth. These are taken in hand by the
young ladies of the church and the printed
lettering entirely covered with the Kensing-
ton stitch in colored silks. The squares are
then sewed together after the manner of a
patchwork quilt, the border neatly finished
off with lace and ribbon, and the completed
spread hung up in some conspicuous part of
the fair ball so that he who runs may road.
For this privilege the advertiser is not taxed:
at certain fixed rates per word or line, but is-
modestly requested to contribute whatever
amount his pocketbook and bump of benevo-
lence may admit of, the result being gener-
ally more satisfactory to the fair organizers
of the fair than to the contributor, who has
at least the consolation of feeling that he has
been fieeced in a. good cause—New York
Werld.
Il‘lnding the Nile Sources.
It facilitates research very greatly to learn
where not to look for anything which we
wish to find. The scientific world must be
deeply indebted to the Beer of South Africa,
who demonstrates the folly of looking for the
sources of the Nile south of the equator.
“They are spending no end of money to-
find out the source of the Nile, and actually
send people into Africa south of the equator
to discover its source.
“IVcll, is not the world round?”
Taking an orange to illustrate the matter,
and drawing a line round the center of it, the
man said:
“Here is the equator. You see where the
equator is, don’t you? Well, the fools expect
to find that the Nile rises on this side of it;
but how on earth can men with common
sense believe that water will run up hilli
“Tell, these Englanders are the greatest fools;
what say you?‘
They all agreed with him.—Youth’s Com-
panion.
To Metalizc “700d.
Steep in a bath of caustic alkali at a tem-
perature of between 164 degs. and 197 degs.
Fahr. for two or three days, according to its
permeability. Then place it in a bath of hy-
drosulphate of calcium for twenty-four to
thirty-six hours, then add a concentrated so-
lution of sulphur; forty—eight hours after this
addition place it in a third bath of acetate of
lead between 90 degs. and 120 degs. Fahr.,
where it must remain thirty to fifty hours,
according to its permeability. When com-
pletely dried it will take an extremely fine
polish, and if rubbed with lead, zinc or tin,
and afterward with a. burnisher of glass, it
will be like a metal mirror, and it is impossi-
ble for moisture to damage it in any way.—
New York Telegram.
Mn. Wray’s Rose Wine.
Did you ever see any rose wine? Yes. rose
wine. No alcohol in it, and yet it is fer-
mented wine, and as delightful to tasteas any
beverage that ever pleased the palate. “Tell,
we don’t believe there is but one woman in
America that can make this wine, at least as
good as it appeared to us a few days ago,
when on our return home from Watson
springs, we stopped a short time at the hour
pitable home of Mr. Walter Wray, in Greene
county, and his estimable wife said to us that
she wanted us to try some of her rose wine.-— -
Madison (G3,) Madisonian.
{How's Your Horse?
Those who talk about the intelligence of a
horse are referred to the fact that of the fifty
things which may frighten him into run-
ning away not one would alarm a calf. The
fact is the calves of this country have not
been brought to the front as justice demands.
--Detroit Free Press.
A Logical Conclusion.
Johnny—What does father mean when he
talks about belonging to the Rod and Gun
club?
Mother—A rod, I suppose, my boy, is the
distance at which they fire their guns when
shooting at a. mark—Boston Herald.
Norwalk Chronicler