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A MAN OF THE oi.DEN TiMF. — On WodnftSfUiy, 

 the 23i1 lilt. Moses Brown, the venerable Friend, 

 entered upon his ninety-eighth year. He is, I be- 

 lieve, the oldest individual in this city, where he 

 was born, and where he has passed his long, and 

 useful, and happy life. The regular monthly 

 meeting of the Society of Friends occurred on 

 the forenoon of the same day. In compliance 

 with his almost invariable practice, he was found 

 in his place on that occasion, manifesting his hab- 

 itual interest, and taking an intelligent part in the 

 deliberations and acts of the meeting. At dinner 

 he was surrounded by several of bis family con- 

 nexions and familiar friends. In that group, 

 however, there was neither wife, nor brother, nor 

 son, nor daughter, to extend to the patriarch tlie 

 hand of congratulation, or to revive, with anything 

 like a cotempornry interest, the memories of the 

 distant past. All these he has outliwed ! Of his 

 lineal descendants, only one grand daughter and 

 three great grand children are now living. He 

 was the youngest of four brothers, and in early life 

 his constitution was thought to be so delicate as 

 to give little hope of a long life. Indeed, to quote 

 his own language addressed to the writer of this 

 notice, on the recent anniversary of his birth day, 

 he would gladly have com[)romised, had it been in 

 his power, for a life extended to the term of sixty 

 years! The last of his brothers he has survived 

 more than thirty years. 



On the afternoon of his recent birth day, several 

 of his collateral kindred and personal friends paid 

 him a visit, to congratulate him upon his reaching 

 another mile stone in his long journey with pow- 

 ers of body and mind, which leave him stiil capa- 

 ble of usefulness, and alive to enjoyment. He 

 received them with much kindness, rising from 

 his seat on the sofa, as each one advanced to gi-eet 

 him ; he conversed familiarly upon various topics 

 connected both with the past and the present ; 

 and in no instance did he lapse for a moment 

 either into the garrulity or the torpor of age. He 

 betrays in fact no symptoms of senile dotage, and 

 in proof of this it may be mentioned, that he not 

 only is an efficient suf)ervisor of the Friends' 

 Yearly Meeting Boarding School in this city, but 

 that for years he has been and still is the Treasu- 

 rer of that important and richly-endowed institu- 

 tion. The duties of this responsible office he dis- 

 charges with great exactitude, without the aid even 

 of a clerk to perform the ordinary labors of an 

 accountant. To what causes may this extraordi- 

 nary exemption from the almost inevitable infirm- 

 ities of life thus prolonged be ascribed ? I pretend 

 to offer no philosophical solution of the phenome- 

 non. As a plain man however, I answer, that 

 Moses Brown owes his remarkable longevity and 

 the healthy action of his mental powers, mainly 

 to three causes — first, to temperance and regu- 



larity in his habits of living — secondly, to the 

 influence of his peculiar religious faith and prac- 

 tice, in preserving its votaries from the agitation 

 of the passions, from an exhausting solicitude to 

 win the high prizes of life, and from a voluntary 

 servitude to fashion and to pleasure — thirdly, to 

 the fact that he has never sutiered his 'acuities to 

 rest from want of use ; that he has exerted them 

 constantly upon subjects fitted not only to main- 

 tain their true bahiiice, but to recruit their decay- 

 ing strength, and to ensure to them after the lapse 

 of nearly one hundred years no little of the prac- 

 tical efficiency which is but too generally the ex- 

 clusive possession of those over whose natural 

 force time has achieved no triumph. — Providence 

 Journal. 



The outa snakk. — Before we quitted Chuor, 

 our dandies, who had kindled a fire on the bank 

 of the river, were dressing their rice and curry, 

 when a small snake, approaching the place where 

 they were seated, one of them arose and despatch- 

 ed it with a piece of bamboo. It was about 25 

 inches long, entirely white except the top of the 

 head, which was a deej) shining black. Ihispa.- 

 ticnlar sjiecies is called by the natives the Outa 

 snake. It is very i-are, and of peculiar habits. 

 ''i hcse creatures always go in pairs, and it is re- 

 markable that if one is killed by manor beast, the 

 survivor will follow, until it is either destroyed or 

 obtains its revenge by biting the author of its be- 

 reavement. It has been known, under such cir- 

 cumstances, to keep up the ])ursuit with the most 

 patient perseverance for 300 miles. '^^1 he little 

 creature whose mate was killed by one of the boat- 

 men, was seen after we had ] ushed from shore, 

 gliding along the bank of the stream in a direct 

 line with our boat, and when we reached Cown- 

 poor, there we found it ready to deal its veiigeance 

 upon the wanton destroyer of its conjugal felicity. 

 It was despatched before it could put its evil in- 

 tent into execution Scenes in India. 



Essence of anchovy. — Put as much water 

 into a stew})an, en half a pound of the finest an- 

 chovies, as will make, with their liquor, the quan- 

 tity of nearly three pints ; with a little scraped 

 horse-radish, a small sprig of thyme, three or f^ur 

 chopj)ed shallots, a blade of mace, about a dozen 

 pep])er-corns, a kw bits of lernon-peel, a gill of 

 good beer, with a little sugar, or half a gill of red 

 port, and half a gill of either the best ketchup or 

 soy. After the whole has boiled together for at 

 least a quarter of an hour, rub it with a wooden 

 spoon through a fine sieve ; and, when quite cold 

 put the essence up in bottles, and keep it closely 

 corked for use. This excellent essence wiil re- 

 main good for a long time. 



