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Show A MIRACLK OP LONGEVITY loth la llam.n Opinion llMpMlLf the I lie uf the -. The pope appean to hnve recovered from the aerloui dlipoiltlon which gave die to the recent alarming report! re-port! Hli hollneta haa never had a atrong constitution. About hli twentieth twen-tieth year he believed that he waa waiting with phthlili, end wroto an eloquent piece ot Ialln verie on hla approaching ap-proaching end, "Why Flatter Thyielf I ' Ten yeara later, when he wat apoitolle delegate at Ilenevento, he came near dying of a pernlcloua fever It waa thought that he waa loit He waa aaved by the act, then thought foolhardy, fool-hardy, of l)r Volpli. phytlrttn t0 the king of Naplra, In plunging him Into a bath of cold water at the moment of Ihe mod violent attack of the fever. leo XIII haa not gone out of (he vait Incluiure which aurroundi the Vatican In iwenty yeara, and yet hai turpaiaed Ihe yean of life ot PI111 IX who alone nt all the popea had eireeded the yeara ot Peter. In the eyet of inper-ttltloua inper-ttltloua Itomtnt Io XIII bat per formed another miracle of longevity, lie hat eacaped a critical dale one determined by a cibullatl, calculation, which aet the end ot hla life for the , rear 189 J It It laid all hli pre-dccetiora pre-dccetiora In thlt century plui IX flregory XVI, I'lui Mil ua x',i., Plui VII., have ohe)cd Ihe i 0f ng-urea ng-urea I.eo Xll. alone hat neaped It, and the 11 me ralculatlnn If i were extct In bit caie. would aialgn blm ten yeara more ot eilatmre which would make the pontiff nirpm aie0 Ihe ace ot Doge Dandolo |