Whittier's Birthday

Whittier, in celebrating his birtlulav anniversary at Boston, said: "It is a rather queer thing to congratulase a man upon that he is 75 years oíd," smillingly adding, "Perhaps it is something to live so long in tliis wicked wond." He thought the New England Old Thees.- The oldest tree in the world, so ƒ ar as any one knowu, is the Bo tree of the sacml city of Amarapoora in Burinah. It waaplanted 288 B. O., and is therefore now 2,170 years old. Sir James Emerson Tenncnt gires reasons for believing that the tree is really of tliis wonderful age, and refors to historie documenta in which it ia mentioned at different dates, as 182 A. D., 223 A. 1)., and so on to the present day. "To it," says Sir James, "kings have even dedicated their dominions in testiniony of a belief that il is a branch of the idéntica] fig-tree ander which Buddha reclined at Urumelaya when hc undervvent his apotheosis. ' Itsleaves are osrried away aa streamera by pügrims, bnt it is too sacred to touch witli aknife, and tberefore they are only gathered vhwi they fall. Tlic king oakin Winder forcst, Englaml, isl,eOyears okl.