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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 279, 6 September 1878, Page 11

Living to a ripe old age is not yet one of the " lost arts." The illustrious Pius IX. was spared to see his 86th year. Count de Waldeck who died three years ago, was past 100. The Emperor of Germany is 82. Marshal MacMahon is 72. The late M. Thiers was over 80, and the historian Guizot had reached S7. Lord Brougham was 89 Lord Palmerston 81, and Earl Russell 86. William Cullen Bryant was past 83, Richard H. Dana, who introduced Bryant to the public is still living in Boston at the age of 91. Mr. Longfellow is 71, and Whittier has passed 70. Charles O'Connor is 73. Cardinal McCloskey is 68, and Pope Leo XIII. is the same. Mr. Gladstone is 74. Carlisle is 83, and still bright. Peter Cooper is active at 86. Emerson is 7." and Victor Hugo 76. Chief Justice Taney was 87 Charles Carroll of Carrollton lived to see 91. John Adams reached 92, and Thomas Jefferson 83. — Pilot. The New York Christian Advocate figures out that if the Catholics of this country keep up the rate of increase they have maintained for some decades back they will form 52 per cent, of the population in 1930. But for the aggression and despotism of Russia, Poland would now be a great and prosperous Catholic kingdom, with a population exceeding 30,000,000 of inhabitants. At present there are some 9,940,500 Poles under the Russian dominion. Of these, nearly 6,000,000 are Catholics ; with the exception of 160,000 Poles living abroad (in England, France, America, &c), the remaining 4,000,000 have been forced into the Greek Church. The Dean of Chichester was select preacher at Oxford the other day. "Ye men of science," said he, "ye men of science, leave me my ancestors in Paradise, and I do not grudge you yours in the Zoological Gardens,"