Some Old Folks

Rafael Luna and Petra Negrete were lately married in Guanajuato, Mexico. The bride is 25 and the groom 99 years oíd. Miss Jane Burrell died recently at Sey mour, Ind.,agedllOye&rs. She claimed to be the oldest maiden lady in the country. John and Sarah Burnham, of Essex, Mass., celebrated the 03d anniversary of their marriage reeently. The husband is 89 and hia wife 80 years old. CollinsFitch, of Meade county, Ky., is the oldest Mason in the order in that state, havjng become a member of the order in 1820. He is past 95 years of age. The oldest person in the state of Indiana is Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll, who lives in Warren township, near Indianapolis. Her age is 113 years and her health is good, Mrs. Catharine Smitley, of Muskingum county, O., celebrated the lOOth anniversary of her birth recently. She is in good health, and her mental vigor is unimpáired. Anderson Burrell, a planter living near Montgomery, Ala., is the father of thirty-one children and the grandfather of sixty. He is 71 years old, and has been married four times. Kev. John Gibson, of Philadelphia, is 117 years old. His face is coa! black and his hair snow white. He was formerly a slave. His health is good, but he has been blind for several years. Daniel Hulto, a planter of Crawford county, Ga., reached the age of 100 years recently, and bids fair to live for a quarter of a eentury to come. He was a gallant soldier in the war of 1813. Mrs. Lydia Strope, who recently died at Green Bay, Wis., was 102 years old. On the same day Mr. Jane W. Edgecomb died in Damariscotta, Me., at the age of 103 years 4 mopths and 12 days. Mrs. Elizabeth Carroll, of Warren, Ind., claims to have been born in Pennsylvania in 1774. Her husband was a soldier in the war of 1812. There is good reason to think that Mrs. Carroll is really 113 years old, although she is as activo as most women of (iO.