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Show Hale oia EnmsJuneta. land rho n' PreC0( Pays. In England Eng-land the old man not only has a chane! wtuation It is the exception with na In tS lof 6 he l between 50 60. ho, fWnS the most eniinet and haidestworhngmen will be found to bo over CO. Old Lord Albemarle who fongb at Waterloo, Las entered his 92d year. Lord Cottesloe is 01. The late Viscount Eversley was in his 05th year when he died, lhe present once saw htm when he was 91. Hia lordship lord-ship was returning from shooting, near Windsor, and ho was remarking that ho would soon have to buy a pair of spectacles, specta-cles, as his aim had not been so good of When he was Mr. Shaw Lefevre he did good service as speaker of the house of commons. Sir George Burns, the founder of the Cunard Steamship company com-pany and a great authority on ship building, died aged 05 and in full possession pos-session of his faculties. Lord Wexoor-ough, Wexoor-ough, Mr. Gladstone, Lord Tynham Lord Portman and about one hundred other well known public men, still engaged en-gaged in active public work, are between 80 and 90. Probably the average age of the best known 500 public functionaries who conduct the legal, parliamentary,; military, naval and other public services would be found to be over 60. Cor, Chicago News. . |