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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2032, 18 February 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Lancet motion-, a tu.- a ml. city <d two Kussi.-.n i 'ur;;.i , w I. -e nam-, ire not familiar to u-. lb-; d- vhs of two p-rs.-ns of extraordinary ace i a i;u—la. lire' i, that of a man named >ril--i.- in tl..- pr-.viuce I'ultowa, at the age • f o’i l.an-'.r- 1 and seventeen. 111. ;bat of a w man one hun Ire lan I th.r-y years 11, named Anna K’ra. tu t;i- pr via- of Baku. It is di die alt to j Mg ■ of the evil uce ~u which these assertions ■ f extra-.r-linaiy longevity are based. but the ag s Wj-jI i -till be wonderful if we ma le allowance of ten years for poe-iide error in the lir-f case and twenty intheseco-.il. It is stated that the eldest son of Scnbny. at cighty-two. was less active than the '-.•her m his ■ ne hundred and sixth year. Further exploration in Masai Land will SH necessary in order to learn whether there an active volcano in Last Africa. Ur. (i. 1. Fischer, formerly of Zanzibar, has published in tiermany a narrative of the journey he made in 1 Sc*.* at the instance of the Hamburg ideographical .Society ; and he declared that twice in the course of the trip he- saw smoke rising from the summit of the Volcanic mountain Kongo Nrrai, a peak seven thousand feet high. Several of his Coircanions testify to the same effect. A new method cf t.eating amall-pox with ether and -piuin. the ether being administered hyp .d-.tmtcaily and the opium by llie mouth, ba.-. recently been tried in Tatis with remarkable •uee-.-'S. even in very severe ca=*-i.