Tony Morgan,
a blind negro, was recently living at Mobile, 105 years old. Pompey
Graham of Montgomery, N. Y., lately died at 119, and retained his
faculties. Phebe Jenkins of Beaufort County, South Carolina, was
believed to be 120 years old when she died about a year ago. Mrs.
Louisa Elgin of Seymour, Indiana, whose mother lived to be 115, was
recently living at 105.

"Jennie White, a colored woman, died in St. Joseph, Mo., Monday last,
aged 122 years. She was born in the eastern part of Georgia, and when
twenty years of age was taken to Tennessee, where she remained for
ninety-six years. She had lived in St. Joseph about ten years. She was
a cook for Captain Waterfall, of George Washington's staff, during the
war of the Revolution. She remembered the death of Washington well,
and used to tell a number of interesting stories about early times.
She died in full possession of all her mental faculties, but was a
cripple and helpless."

MALES AND FEMALES.--In the first number of the JOURNAL it was stated
that although women were from two to six per cent more numerous in
population, more males were born by four to sixteen per cent. This was
a typographical error; it should have been from four to six per cent,
generally four. The greatest excess of males is in illegitimate
births. The reversal of proportions in the progress of life shows that
the male mortality is much greater than the female. Hence the more
tranquil habits and greater predominance of the moral nature in women
increases their longevity, while the greater indulgence of the
passions and appetites, the greater muscular and intellectual force
among men, are hostile to longevity. Hence the establishment of a true
religion, or the application of the "New Education," will greatly
increase longevity. It will also be increased by greater care of
health in manufacturing establishments, and by diminishing the hours
of labor; for exhausting physical labor not only shortens life but
predisposes to intemperance. The injurious effect of excessive toil is
shown in the shorter lives of the poor, and is enforced by Finlaison's
"Report on Friendly Societies to the British Parliament," which says
(p. 211) "The practicable difference in the distribution of sickness
seems to turn upon the amount of the _expenditure of physical force_.
This is no new thing, for in all ages the enervation and decrepitude
of the bodily frame has been observed to follow a prodigal waste of
the ment