carefully avoided water all his life and had
a love for brandy.

Possession of Faculties.--Eglebert Hoff was a lad driving a team in
Norway when the news was brought that Charles I was beheaded. He died
in Fishkill, N.Y., in 1764 at the age of one hundred and twenty-eight.
He never used spectacles, read fluently, and his memory and senses were
retained until his death, which was due to an accident. Nicolas
Petours, curate of the parish of Baleene and afterward canon of the
Cathedral of Constance, died at the age of one hundred and
thirty-seven; he was always a healthy, vigorous man, and celebrated
mass five days before his death. Mr. Evans of Spital Street,
Spitalfields, London, died in 1780 aged one hundred and thirty-nine,
having full possession of his mental faculties. Of interest to
Americans is the case of David Kinnison, who, when one hundred and
eleven, related to Lossing the historian the tale of the Boston Tea
Party, of which he had been a member. He died in good mental condition
at the age of one hundred and fifteen. Anthony Senish, a farmer of the
village of Limoges, died in 1770 in his one hundred and eleventh year.
He labored until two weeks before his death, had still his hair, and
his sight had not failed him. His usual food was chestnuts and Turkish
corn; he had never been bled or used any medicine. Not very long ago
there was alive in Tacony, near Philadelphia, a shoemaker named R. Glen
in his one hundred and fourteenth year. He had seen King William III,
and all his faculties were perfectly retained; he enjoyed good health,
walking weekly to Philadelphia to church. His third wife was but thirty
years old.

Longevity in Ireland.--Lord Bacon said that at one time there was not a
village in all Ireland in which there was not a man living upward of
eighty. In Dunsford, a small village, there were living at one time 80
persons above the age of four score. Colonel Thomas Winslow was
supposed to have died in Ireland on August 26, 1766, aged one hundred
and forty-six. There was a man by the name of Butler who died at
Kilkenny in 1769 aged one hundred and thirty-three. He rode after the
hounds while yet a centenarian. Mrs. Eckelston, a widow in
Phillipstown, Kings County, Ireland, died in 1690 at one hundred and
forty-three.

There are a number of instances in which there is extraordinary
renovation of the senses or even of the body in old age,--a new period
of life, as it were, is begun. A remarkable i