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Show Stretching Span of Life. The publication of n monumental work by Viscount Hryce at the ripe age of eighty-three should persuade mnny of us who want to feel what It Is like to be an octogenarian Unit old uge can be attained without the aid of thyroid glands borrowed frtm the monkey, snys u writer In the London Chronicle, One of the secrets of old age would seem to he a lifetime of Intellectual activity, and a lion's share of public service. It Is iulta astonishing the number of public men living at the present day who have pissed their eightieth birthday. Lord Chniiuliig Is In Ids elghty-tlrst year; Viscount Mor-ley Mor-ley Is eighty-three; Mr. Frederic Harrison Har-rison Is close on ninety; Sir Henry Poland Is still a igorous letter writer, ninety-one, while the earl of Halshury Is ninety-seven, und possibly there.nrc otheis. Tho "Hampton of Macedonia." mm....... . if I tit tfVoiii (!ti1milll nil nn |