Extraordinary Tenacity Of Life

Odo of the most extraordtnury instaDces of teuacity ol ife is recorded o late Bnglish papers. A woiuan died at tbe age of f'orty-six, who, from the age of two years, had heen coufined to her bed, an idiot, blind and terribly deforraed, an J yet in anoh a s'ate of heaith as tiever to have required medical ad Bread ind cheese aud ale were her accustomed food, snd her appotiie was uofailing and ber digestión perfict; so that f-he U said to have p:issed her" tune - f sueh a thing eau be concoived - pleasantly and happil v. Khe died suddenly aud unexpectedly, after her usual supper. passmarkable fact that her ohet was deformed aud ber heart at a considerable distauce from its natural position biug very large and a uiass of (at, with do muscular tistes. The gpine was doubly curved, the boues wcre limeless aud pliable, and other organg of the body wcre out of place aud deformed. The head ' in:sshapfn aud contamed two quarts of water. It is marvelous that such aoialformed beiug could huve lived t all, but thatlife should have been prolonged as it was in this case, and eveu enjoyed, is a phyeical phenomeDon ihich we think must be without parallel. It is painful to realize that the flesh in which we live is heir to sunh ills; and the contemplation of such a sigbtless, mindless, ehapeless, aimless, profitlesa existence, sets at naught all tbeories of creation and of Providence.