■iA tradesman in Kiel has just received a. postcard dated Lagos, December 2, IS9S, wishing him a happy ne\\\year. The sender died five years ago. - - . Literature, the fine arts, and the sciences give us several grand old men, but; only one, Sir Theodore Martin, a -nonagenarian. Next to him come Mr. W. 1\ Frith.- 1!-. A., eightyeight; Mr. Alfred H.ussell Wallaco, ■ eightylour; Lord Kelvin, eighty-three; Mr. llolman Hunt, 11.A., eighty; and Mr,. George Merer dith, seventy-nine. The peerage has a singularly hardy veteran in the liarl of \\ eniyss, eighty-pipe; colonial fitatesriianship a remarkably active worker in Lord Stratheona, eighty-seven!- and' medicine is specially distinguished in this category by Lord Lister, eighty .--"Pall Mall Gazette."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 8
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114Untitled Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 26, 25 October 1907, Page 8
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