CELEBRITIES.

Clutha Leader, Volume XVII, Issue 855, 5 December 1890, Page 3

CELEBRITIES.

1 It has : been a favorite subject with statisticians to point out the different callings of men calculated to prejudice or favor longlevity. Thus we find it repeatedly asserted that brain work and unremitting intellectual labor necessarily abbreviate life, but it is not always borne out by facts. If we take poets, we find the immortal bard of Avon called away at 46 in the full development of his genius. He died in the zenith of his fame, conscious of the dawn ' presaging a sunburst of posthumourous fame.' It is impossible to bring the language to a more exquisite degree of perfection than Shakespeare did. In him w« find its most rythmic genius, the acutest intellect, the prof6undest imagination confined to one man, who truly held the mirror up to nature.' In the famous lines of Dr Johnson : — Each change of many coloured life he drew ; Exhausted world and then imagined new, Existence saw him spurn her bonded reign, And pantirig time toiled after him in vain. Pope, whose unrivalled poetry has charmed succeding generations, died aged 56. Byron, who will live as long as the creations or his genius are understood, attained the age of 73 ; while i . Rogers, the great author of our ' eternal i destiny,' died at the ripe age of 93. Turning to German literature ,we find that the chill of death palsied the hand of the immortal Schiller st the same ■ ' premature age of 46, at which his great English brother, Shakespeare laid down his pen, 'both dying at the threshold of i their goal, leaving some of their works half finished. For diction of language and 1 ; width of imagination Schiller i ' stands unsurpassed. Of him it may be truly said : — He taught new lands to rise, new seas to roll, Called into being scenes unknown before, And passing nature's bonds, was something more. 1 Goethe, who as a dramatist, stands still ; higher thisih Schiller, and whose burst 1 of genius is for ever portrayed iri Faust, Egmont, Wilhelm Meiaters Lehrjahre, and other works, lived to 83. Klopstock and Wieland, whose creations are full of magic solemnity, died in the discrepitude of age. An insight into ] French literature shows Tdltaire, the i nations greatest satirist and poet, who in his works disci oses the lineaments of his age, called away at the mature age of 84. Lamartine, the great historian, : left this world aged 78. Calderori, a ; famous Spanish writer, died aged 87. i Instancing men of science, we find ; Plato, the greatest of philosophers, ( attain the age of 82. William Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, died aged 79, bis famous works but half completed. Among contemporaries, we find the Very B^ev. P. Dunne, late Vicar-General of Albury, N.S.W., who is long past the noon of manhood, and though ailing for some time, is now, notwithstanding , his advanced age, in excellent health. , This he explains as follows : — ' *I have used some of Warner's ; safe cure while suffering from pains in ;. ibhe back and loins diie tp ; disorder of \ the liver and kidneys, and found prompt I and complete relief.' Mr W. Adams, M. • L. A. of Queensland, who has filled the i mayoral chair of- Buridaberg on three i successive occassions, though past the * zenith), of life, lbbks -well and hearty,

due, as he willingly affirms, to the use of Warner's safe cure. The Hon. Geo. Thorne, ex-premier of Queensland, graduated in medicine ; he retired re* cently from politics, and resides in the prosperous town of Ipswich, -founded by his father. . Ever at heart the rwelfare of his fellow-beings, he says :— <■* I haxe recommended Warner's safe cure to many people who have suffered from different complaints, and in every case a cure has been affected. Personally I have used the medicine and derived the greatest benefit from it.' Mr R. H. J. Reeves, M.H.R., New Zealand, is of commanding presence, and an able and popular politician, he endorses the .efficacy of Warner's safe cure in. exceptional terms of praise. The unanimous verdict of these distinguished cononists in favor of this specific is convincing and incontestible proof that ie is the. surest safeguard to vigorous health, as well as the only means of attaining a joyous and greatly, prolonged existence.