Connecticut, was still living recently in her 106th
year. Ben Evans, part Indian, part negro, a great hunter of Wilkes
County, Georgia, died at 107; baptized after he was 100. Mrs. Betsy L.
Moody died on the 4th of July in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, aged 104. Wm.
Henry Williams of Cincinnati, died a few months ago at 102. James
Fitzgerald of Prince Edwards Island, over a hundred years old, is
still able to work. Mrs. Lydia Van Ranst lately died on East 16th
Street, New York, aged 100 years and ten months; and Mrs. Johanna
O'Sullivan in Boston in her 103d year. Mrs. Betsy Perkins of Rome, N.
Y., was apparently in excellent health when she died suddenly at the
breakfast table in her 101st year. Rev. Hugh Call died in Wayne
County, Indiana, at 104. After his hundredth year he once fancied
death was near, and sent for his family to see him die; but when they
arrived in midwinter, they found the old man busy cutting wood to make
a fire for his visitors.

Many of these examples show that the faculties of both soul and body
ought to be maintained in good condition to the last, as fruit falls
from the trees ripe and perfect. When we leave our earthly tenement,
we ought to leave it in a respectable condition, and not carry any
infirmities from it to the better world.

REMARKABLE FASTING.

"Signor Merlatti, a young Italian, completed in December his fifty
days' fast, at the Grand Hotel, Paris, in time to enjoy the
festivities of the holidays. Unlike his rival, Succi, he partook of no
mysterious elixir, but existed on water alone. At the conclusion of
his feat, he was so nearly dead that the surgeons were anticipating by
way of dissection more light on the effects of privation from food. He
was barely able to move about without help. His stomach was unable to
hold any solids, and at the big banquet over which he presided he
could not have had a very convivial time, as he was unable to take a
mouthful of food. He has since gradually recovered. Succi, meanwhile,
is engaged in another fast. He fences and takes any amount of
exercise, to show that his mysterious liquid is what does it."

This is a little over the record of Dr. Tanner, but the result is very
different. Dr. Tanner came out in good condition, with a splendid and
healthy appetite. In the first twenty-four hours he ate something
every hour or two, indulging largely in watermelons, milk, apples,
beefsteak, potatoes, English ale, and Hungarian wine. He gained eight