His usual food was chestnuts and
Turkish corn; he had never been bled or used any medicine. Not
very long ago there was alive in Tacony, near Philadelphia, a
shoemaker named R. Glen in his one hundred and fourteenth year.
He had seen King William III, and all his faculties were
perfectly retained; he enjoyed good health, walking weekly to
Philadelphia to church. His third wife was but thirty years old.
Longevity in Ireland.--Lord Bacon said that at one time there was
not a village in all Ireland in which there was not a man living
upward of eighty. In Dunsford, a small village, there were living
at one time 80 persons above the age of four score. Colonel
Thomas Winslow was supposed to have died in Ireland on August 26,
1766, aged one hundred and forty-six. There was a man by the name
of Butler who died at Kilkenny in 1769 aged one hundred and
thirty-three. He rode after the hounds while yet a centenarian.
Mrs. Eckelston, a widow in Phillipstown, Kings County, Ireland,
died in 1690 at one hundred and forty-three.
There are a number of instances in which there is extraordinary
renovation of the senses or even of the body in old age,--a new
period of life, as it were, is begun. A remarkable instance is an
old magistrate known to Hufeland, who lived at Rechingen and who
died in 1791 aged one hundred and twenty.
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