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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 84, 15 July 1895, Page 3

It is estimated that 90,000 conversations take place daily over the telephones in New York. There are now published in the United Kingdom 2,081 magazines, of which more than 487 are of a decidedly religious character, Thus the Wairarapa Star Advance Eketahuna ! There were sixteen births and only two deaths at this homo of the mosquito during the quarter ending Juno 30th. The retirement of the New South Wales executioner having been rumoured, there were over 100 applicants for the post. Among them was one from a Chinaman, who forwarded his naturalisation paper to show that he was allee the same as other British gentlemen.

GRANNY GORTON’S BIRTHDAY. Saturday, January 21st, was a great day in Central Village, in the State of Connecticut, in America. On that day Mrs Jonathan Gorton was 100 years old and formerly received her friends, of whom hundreds were present. She wore her best black silk gown, with a rose in the bodice. The venerable lady was seated in a comfortable armchair on. a platform in the best room of her house. Then the train of callers filed through, each and all shaking hands with her. “ Granny Gorton,’’ as she is called, is a trim little body and very nimble on her feet. There was never anything ailed her she says, and, except that her eyesight isn’t quite so good as it used to he, she is as active as any woman of 50. Why has Granny Gorton lived so long ? Why is she so active now ? She lets out the secret herself when she says “There was never anything ailed me.” That’s it, and all of it. People who live 100 years are not ’so very rare. The deaths of 45 such were reported last year in England—22 men and 23 women. Yet, compared to the multitudes who die, these are nothingnothing. Can we not keep things from ailing us, and so live as long as Mrs Gorton 'i Yes, if we will take the trouble to do it! Mon and women 100 years old, ptiU Ti|oiuu9 and clearheaded,