mory of G. Stanley, gent., who died in 1719, aged one
hundred and fifty-one.

There was a Dane named Draakenburg, born in 1623, who until his
ninety-first year served as a seaman in the royal navy, and had spent
fifteen years of his life in Turkey as a slave in the greatest misery.
He was married at one hundred and ten to a woman of sixty, but outlived
her a long time, in his one hundred and thirtieth year he again fell in
love with a young country girl, who, as may well be supposed, rejected
him. He died in 1772 in his one hundred and forty-sixth year. Jean
Effingham died in Cornwall in 1757 in his one hundred and forty-fourth
year. He was born in the reign of James I and was a soldier at the
battle of Hochstadt; he never drank strong liquors and rarely ate meat;
eight days before his death he walked three miles.

Bridget Devine, the well-known inhabitant of Olean Street, Manchester
died at the age of one hundred and forty-seven in 1845. On the register
of the Cheshire Parish is a record of the death of Thomas Hough of
Frodsam in 1591 at the age of one hundred and forty-one.

Peter Garden of Auchterless died in 1775 at the age of one hundred and
thirty-one. He had seen and talked with Henry Jenkins about the battle
of Flodden Field, at which the latter was present when a boy of twelve.
It seems almost incredible that a man could say that he had heard the
story of an event which had happened two hundred and sixty-three years
before related by the lips of an eye-witness to that event;
nevertheless, in this case it was true. A remarkable instance of
longevity in one family has recently been published in the St. Thomas's
Hospital Gazette. Mrs. B., born in 1630 (five years after the
accession of Charles I), died March 13, 1732. She was tended in her
last illness by her great-granddaughter, Miss Jane C., born 1718, died
1807, and Miss Sarah C., born 1725, died 1811. A great-niece of one of
these two ladies, Mrs. W., who remembers one of them, was born in 1803,
and is at the present time alive and well. It will be seen from the
above facts that there are three lives only to bridge over the long
period between 1630 and 1896, and that there is at present living a
lady who personally knew Miss C., who had nursed a relative born in
1630. The last lady of this remarkable trio is hale and hearty, and has
just successfully undergone an operation for cataract. Similar to the
case of the centenarian who had seen Henry Jenkins was t