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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 11, 5 July 1887, Page 3

The Benin Statistical Bureau publishes, with reference to the 90th birthday of the Emj -.or, the following interesting particulars a= .1 the ages of persons above 90 years who are now living within the Prussian monaie”y There are 5000 of a greater age than VS, and 200 of them by 10 years. In all Prussian provinces people of 90 to 95 are pi.,-, numerous, particularly in Posen and Silesia, Western and Eastern Prussia. Males or from 90 to 95 number 1700, of whom 255 are in Silesia; moie than 100, 72, of whom 8 are in Silesia. Of females from 90 to 95 th- e are 2766, of whom 371 are in Silesia; from 95 to 100, 641, of whom 99 are in Silesia; more than 100, 167, of whom 30 are in Silesia. At the census of 1885 there were in Prussia 13 males and 7 females exceeding the age of 106, 2 males and 10 females 107 years, 3 males and 2 females 108 years, 1 male and 4 females 109 years, 5 females 110 years, 2 males and 1 female 111 years, 2 females 112 years, 1 female 115 years, another 117 years, and 1 male 118 years, and 1 120 years. A cyclone visited Calcutta and vicinity on May 28, and caused great destruction. A local steamer, with 750 persons on board, was caught by it, and is missing, with its living freight. The district of Orissa was completely devastated. A physician in Russia who fails to respond to respond to the summons of a patient is fined from five to 100 roubles, and, if the case is known to have been an urgent one, he may be sent to prison for three The legal fee for an ordinary visit is from 7 i to 15 cents.