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Show Longevity of Animals. The average age of cats is 25 years; of squirrels and hares, 7 or 8 years; rabbits, T; a bear rarely exceeds 20 years; a dog lives 20 years; a wolf, 20; a fox, 14 to 16; lions are long lived, the one known by the name of Poinpey lived to the age of 70: elephants have been known, it is ns-sertod, ns-sertod, to live to the great age of 400 years. When Alexander the Great- had conquered Porus, king of India, he took a great elephant, which had fought very valiantly for the king, and named him Ajax, dedicating him to the sun, and let him go with this inscription: "Alexander, "Alexan-der, the son of Jupiter, dedicated Ajax to the sun." The elephant wan found with this inscription 350 years after. Pigs have been known to live to the age of 20, and the rhinoceros to 20; a horse has been known to live to the age of C2, but average from 25 to 30; camels sometimes live to the eg of tOO; stags are very long lived; sheep seldom exceed the age of 10; cows live about 15 years. Cnvier considered it probable that whales sometimes live 4,000 years; the dolphin and porpoise attain the age of 40; an eagle died at Vienna at the ago of 104; ravens frequently reach tho age of 100; swans have been known to live 300 years. Mr. Malerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of 200 years. Pelicans Peli-cans are long lived; the tortoiso has been knowu to live to 107. Journal of Health. A Lesson In Manners. That the manners of our fathers is not ours is well enotrjh understood, and the phrase "of the old school" has come to be used rather as a reproach to the degenerate de-generate present generation. An old lady who belonged to the times when courtesy was perhaps more general, as it certainly was more elaborate, than it is now, administered rather neatly a rebuko to a lad who did not come up to her ideas. She had known the boy's father when he wa3 in Harvard, as now was the son, and as the latter could hardly remember his parents, who died in his infancy, he was always eager to learn all he could about them. The youth was invited to call upon the old lady, who is now beyond the term set by the Psalmist for man's life, at a country coun-try place one day last summer, and bad an interview with her upon the wide veranda, where she was sitting when he arrived. He lifted his hat, and then, replacing re-placing it upon his head, went on talking talk-ing with the old dame, who regarded him with looks of disapproval. "Do I look like my father?" the young man asked at length. "I cannot toll," tho old lady replied, dryly. "I never saw him with his hat on when he talked with a lady." Youth's Companion. |