Our Oldest Inhabitants

James Stone is a Louisville (Ky.) man, 103 years of age, who has had eleven wives. Tuoson, Arizona, has two centenarians, Mexieans, boni in Sonora- Bascual Cruz, 110 years oíd, and Jesue Ob.'edo, 100 years oíd. Mrs. Margaret Dodson, of Houston County, Tex., glories in the fact tnat she has fift3'-one great-grand-children HWng. The Sixth Ward of Saginaw Citv, Mich., claims a Frenen woman 110 years of age, who planted, eultivated, and dug two acres of potatoes last season. Mrs. Sarah Moseley, of Madison, Ind., is enjoying a visit from her son, wliom she has not seen in forty-seven years. Mrs. Moseley is 111 years oíd. Sixteen soldiers met in Paris, Ky., recently, whose united ages were 1,39) years, or an average of 8(! J years. The olde.-st was 9ti, and the younge.st 82. " I'm not at all t red," said Mrs Alio, of Tylersburg, Pa., as she sat down ín her son's house, after a walk of seven and a half miles- and she is in her 107th yesti". Airs. Hannah Cox, of Helderness, N. H., has just celebrated her lOith birthday. She goes all abont the house without assistance, and reacU without glasees. Mrs. Rebecoa Frost, of Hart County, Georgia, tells stories of the Revolutionaxy YVar. She is 107 reara of age and still in splendid health, retacaros all her facultias. When the grandmother of K. B. Doak, of Stockton, Cal., was a century oíd she made hitn a pair of woollen sooks. She died recently at Wvthe County, Va., aged 103 years. Mis. Eaglin, a Kentucky lady of Carroll County, was always a great lover of the circus. She is 98 years of age, but recently walked two miles to attend one. Mrs. Mary Walker, of Phillipsburg, N. J., cLiims to be 107 years of age, and says it is all owing to her remalning an old ruiid. Family cares, she says, are the ruin of the health of thousaads. Marsao, the oldFrench trader, diedin Hay City, Mich., rocen tly,aged 100 years. He was an old stager, kaew the traite of the Northwest wheu they ran through au al most unbroken wilderness, and fought on the stalt" of Genera Lewis Cass. Half a oesturv ago Eider William L. Benodict, of Warwick, N. Y., cradlec: and bound a lield of grain. On the same farm he pei'formed the same work dnring the present harvest. He afteTward drovo fifteen miles to ful'filt an appointment to preaah. He is over 80 years of aq;e. Kentueky has a number of honoreil citizens who have lived iiearly a century. Louisville presents seven men who are over 90 years of age. They are: i)r. C. (J. (Jrahani, í)li; II. I i. Wilkes, 91; Asa Kmerson, 9i; Tliomas L. Butler, 92; William Giveus, 92; Joan P. Youug, 91. lt also has twenty-two tliat are 80 and over, and seventy-seven that are 70 and over. A census enumerator of San Diego found an oíd bliud man who claims lo be one of the men who helped builil the "Oíd Mission." 105 years ago. He believes he is 130 years of ige. At the ranchería below the Oourt House was found aD oíd Indian woman who claims to be also 120 years of ase. Her llesli and skin are so vrithered that she resembles rather an animated Kgyptian mummy than a human being.- N. Y. Sun. m --It seems difficult to account for so small a creature as a bird making tones as loud ta singing, as an animal 1,000 timos its size. But it has been disnovered that in birds the lungs have se eral openings communicatiag with ci rrespondlng air bags or cells, which hU the whole cavity of the body from tüe neek downwards, and into which the air passes and repasses. - More than 125,000 children die au nuilly in Franco before reauhing the end of their firat year. One-fifth of the entire number are in l'aris.