so heavily against all cheerful views of life
and longevity, that at the risk of becoming monotonous I again refer
to this subject and present examples of longevity which cannot be
denied, in addition to the list previously given. Medical collegiate
scepticism can deny anything. Ultra sceptics deny centenarian life, as
they also denied the existence of hydrophobia, while those who
admitted its existence denied its curability.

Connecticut alone furnishes a good supply of centenarians. Three years
ago Mr. Frederick Nash, of Westport, Conn, published a pamphlet giving
the old people living in Connecticut, including twenty-three
centenarians, whom he described. The names of twelve of these were as
follows:

Edmund R. Kidder, of Berlin, Aug. 17, 1784.
Jeremiah Austin, Coventry, Feb. 10, 1783.
Mrs. Lucy Luther, Hadlyme, Jan. 6, 1784.
Walter Pease, Enfield, March 29, 1784.
Egbert Cowles, Farmington, April 4, 1785.
Mrs. Eunice Hollister, Glastonbury, Aug. 9, 1784.
Mrs. Elsie Chittenden, Guilford, April 24, 1784.
Miss Eunice Saxton, Colchester, Sept. 6, 1784.
Marvin Smith, Montville, Nov. 18, 1784.
Mrs. Phebe Briggs, Sherman, Nov. 16, 1784.
Mrs. Elizabeth Buck, Wethersfield, Jan. 10, 1784.
Mrs. Clarissa D. Raymond, Milton, April 22, 1782.

The others are either of foreign birth or former slaves, whose precise
ages cannot be established.

In addition to this list the newspapers gave us Mrs. Abigail Ford of
Washington, born in 1780, Mr. Darby Green of Reading, born in 1779,
Tryphena Jackson, colored, born in 1782, and Wm. Hamilton, Irish, also
in 1782; and an old sailor in New Haven town house claims to have been
born in 1778.

The very careful investigation of Connecticut by Mr. Nash shows that
"the duration of human life in this State is greater than it was a
generation ago. Then only one person in 500 lived to see 80 years. Now
one per cent of the population live to that age. The average age of
6,223 persons is 83 years. The number of ages ranging from 84 to 89
years is large, and those who are 90 and over number 651; nine are 99,
thirteen are 98, and eleven are 97. No age of less than 80 years has
been recorded.

"It may be pleasing to our grandmothers to know that in this list of
more than 6,000, more than 4,000 are women, and that only eight of the
twenty centenarians are men. The list adds strength to what has
already been held as true, that married people always live longer than
single,