Show AS SPRY AS EVER I Mrs Dunlao of York County South Carolina though 86 years old I picked 1400 pounds of cotton last all Grannie McGuire lives at Beattyville Kentucky at the age of 98 years She retains all her faculties facul-ties and delights in riding horseback horse-back Mrs Mehnert 09 years old has kept the Golden Trumpet Hotel at Reichenbach ermany for eighty consecutive years She is still hale and hearty Uncle Daniel Holcomb who I died at Tariffville Connecticut a few days ago went daily to his traps and handled his own game His age was 86 years Henry Gleason of Pierrepont St Lawrence County New York aged 82 years chopped down a maple tree three feet in diameter and sawed it into stove wood last week At the age of 71 years Mrs Christian of Clairborne Louisiana picked 192 pounds of cotton in one day last season On another day in the course of the forenoon she picked 125 pounds In spite of his 73 Januarys George K Shoenberger the wealthiest man at Clifton Ontario was married on the 17th to Miss Ella Beatty whose Mays have passed into June 25 times Several of Mr Shoenbergers children are older than his bride At Whitesville Del a few days ago a company assembled to witness wit-ness the marriage of Johnatlmn Dennis aged ninety years and Miss Oma Elliott aged fourteen Neither preacher nor groom appeared and the party dispersed On the following follow-ing day the company met again and the two extremes met in matrimony matri-mony The Cincinnati Enquires says Mrs Elizabeth Edwards aged 101 years spent yesterday at the house of her grandson A J Edwards No 13 Plum streesen route to the home of one of her sons at LafayetteInd She is a most remarkable old lady and although totally blind still possesses all her other faculties It gives the Franklin New Hampshire Transcript pleasure to record the following c > John W Keniston eightyfour years of age recently drove an ox team a distance dis-tance of one and a halt miles loaded it with wood and returned home having accomplished the task in a length of time of which would have been creditable to a much younger man His wife Mrs Keniston who is eightyseven years of age spun and doubled and twisted twis-ted three skeins of yarn iu one day Living near Blue Knob Ky is a remarkably aged and well preserved couple Uncle Johnnie Hill aged ninety six and his wife Fannie Hill aged ninetyseven They have been married nearly eighty years Uncle John enjoys the company of young people and although al-though he does not work himself every morning no matter what kind of weather he goes out and superintends the feeding of his stock His wife is very cheErful and bright superintends her housework house-work and does some of it herself Ruth Humphrey widow of Eber Humphrey of Canton village is now living with her adopted daughter daugh-ter in East Granville Massachusetts Massachu-setts at the advanced age of 103 years G months She was born in Southwick Mass July 22 1779 Her 100th birthday was celebrated July 221S79 by a large assemblage of friends and relatives As the day was very pleasant she walked out into the open air to mingle with her visitors and this is the only time that she has left the house for the space of eight years She is quite feeble the present winter and her mental powers seem to suffer with her physical waste She is still able to be around the house it portion of the time |