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given in the register as twenty-five. He died in July 

 1856, and was buried in the family vault in Martley 

 Church. The Rev. James Hastings stood six feet four 

 inches in his stockings, was a strikingly handsome 

 man, and had fifteen children. He had but one 

 sister, and no brother, whilst his wife had one brother 

 and no sister. His father did not much exceed sixty 

 years in age ; and Mr. Hastings informs me from his 

 family records, which extend to the time of Henry H, 

 that there are no remarkable cases of great age among 

 his earlier progenitors. 



4. Captain Lahrbush in March 1870 celebrated in 

 New York city his hundred and fourth birthday anni- 

 versary. He was born in London, on the 9th of 

 March 1766. He entered the British army on the 

 17th of October 1789, and documents connected with 

 this entry prove his age at that time to have been 

 twenty-three years. 



5. Jacob William Luning died recently, at Morden 

 College, Blackheath, in his hundred and fourth year. 

 Documentary evidence sufiicient to satisfy Dr. Farr, 

 of the Registrar-Generars Office, has been adduced, 

 proving that he was born at Hamelvorden in 1767, 

 and similar evidence of the date and the age he gave 

 when he was naturalised as a British subject, also 

 when he was married, and, what is still more impor- 

 tant, when he insured his life — an occasion on which 

 men are not likely to add anything to their age. 



As to the means by which to live long, and to 

 give ourselves the chance of enduring to our hundred 

 and tenth year, if we have it in us, or to our eightieth 



