VETERAN CELEBRITIES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume X, Issue 1837, 25 January 1888, Page 2

VETERAN CELEBRITIES.

M. Ferdinand de Lesseps celebrated the anniversary of his birthday. 911 November 19, and entered upon his 83rd year. He can look around him and see but very few men of anything like equal eminence who are as old as he.'- "The German Emporer is 90, Dr. Dollinger>. is 88, Moltke and Bancroft the historian are each 87, Kossuth is §5, and Professor Owen is 83; but it is not easy.,to extend the list. Yet it is astonishing to, 'note the large number of living great men who have passed the ordinary limit- of human life. Of sovereigns, the Pope, is 77, and King William of the Netherlands is well on in his 71st year. ,X)f statesmen, Mr. Gladstone is 79, Mr. Bright is 76, Prince Bismarck is 72, M. Jules Grevy is 74, M. Leon Say and M. Leroyer are each 71, Lord Selborne |s 75, Sir B. Alcock is 78, Lord Sherbro'oke is 76, and Lord Granville ib 72. Of.generals, MacMahon is 79, Lebceuf ' is 78, and Bazaine and Cialdini are each 76. Of poets, Lord Tennyson is 78, Mr. Browning is 75, and Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is 78. Of musicians, M. Verdi is 73. Of engineers, Lord Armstrong is 77 : raind Sir John HawksbSw- iS 76. Of '''painters Meiesonier is 72;; ahd.dnally of showmen, Barnum is 77.' . Perhaps* however, "Tjfc. Chevreul, who is^fairly 'started upon" his 102 nd year, ought" n6t% t Woinitte'd7' i ln any case, the catalogue is far 'frdni beicrg a complete one. As "it? stands? > i&\ is sufficiently remarkable, Wojhaireimentioned the names of: jiiirty-tw^perfpnß, the average age of eaclvbenmovflrf^ylt may be doubted whether inmejapUirpJbf the world 'iUrty : tWb^m^^jtf '^aafid^* able celebrity and' 'bf !/ aß~firew.'&V%aee length of life have evertelOTe^befti&fiU?* at one time.