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Show Danced at 103. There is a g3y and festive old lady of 103 years at Etrepagny, in the Department Depart-ment of the Euro, who danced and frisked about as if sue were a merry maiden of sweet 17 when her friends went to wish' her health and happiness the other morning on the occasion of her birthday anniversary. Mme. Nourry is the said centenarian, and was born at Songeons, in the Department of the Oise, at or about the time when people were talking of that famous diamond necklace given by Cardinal de Rohan to Queen Marie Antoinette, 'which was afterward worked into an exciting volume of tic-' tion by the elder Dumas, and when Cal-onnewas Cal-onnewas beginning to give trouble to poor Louis XVI and his finance minister, minis-ter, Neckor. Mme. Nourry has probably troubled her head very little at any time of her life about these historical episodes, for she has for many years been engaged in agricultural pursuits, her husband, who is long ago dead, having been a farmer. Until about four years ago the aged widow used to take her butter, eggs-and poultry to the Gisors market. She is still in possession of all her faculties, facul-ties, is able to see without spectacles, has an excellent appetite and temper, and romped on the green during her birthday fete with the most agile of the young folks. Paris Cor. London Telegraph. |