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smoking, was old before he used tea and coffee, lost his teeth 

 early, was never sick, "or out of humor," and had "his 

 chief dependence always in the goodness of God." "An 

 old soldier, named Mittelsted, died in Prussia in the year 

 1192, in the 112th year of his age; was born 1681, lost at a 

 gambling table, entered the army, and was a soldier 67 years, 

 being in seventeen general engagements," in the campaigns 

 of Frederick I., Frederick William I., and Frederick II. 

 After all these adventures he married three wives, the third 

 in his 110th year. H. Kauper, of Neus, Cologne, was 112. 

 "He was a strong man, and accustomed to walk every day." 

 Helen Gray was 105 years old. " She was of small stature, 

 exceedingly lively, peaceable, and good tempered, and a few 

 years before her death acquired new teeth." Thomas Gar- 

 rick lived to be over 108 years ; "had an extraordinary ap- 

 petite, and had not been sick for twenty years." "Anthony 

 Senish, a farmer of the village of Puy, in Limoges, died in 

 It tO, in the lllth year of his age." He labored till within 

 a few days of his death ; had his teeth, hair, and eyesight ; 

 his food, chestnuts and Turkish corn ; had never been bled 

 nor used any medicine." 



R. Glen, a shoemaker, lived at Tacony, near Philadelphia, 

 was 114 years old. He was a Scotchman ; had seen King Wil- 

 liam III., had a keen appetite, and was married three times, 

 his last wife being thirty years old, and " with whom he lived 

 happily." Notwithstanding the conclusions of some learned 

 ethnologists that the present composite race of Anglo- 

 Americans can never become thoroughly acclimatized, or 

 assume the prerogatives of an indigenous variety on this 

 continent, many instances have been adduced of extreme or 

 extraordinary old age. For a contradiction of a number of 

 statements on this subject, see Dunglison's " Human Health," 

 and other tables of longevity, mortality, etc. Of the negro 

 race on this question of longevity, he says : " Throughout 

 the United States the number of colored persons, who are re- 

 ported to attain the age of one hundred and upwards, bears 

 a large ratio to the whites." See also Prichard on longevity 



