A MARRY CENTENARIAN.

Dunstan Times, Issue 879, 21 February 1879, Page 3

A MARRY CENTENARIAN.

-o~ r*. ' a.V i ■’£ , , x ~ ; -** *£ j ligltt cehtsnariisq cocked her 4»Jt .jskedn'* Detroit. with a smile on her withered face passed thence to another and possibly a more serious world. Her name was Margaret Eagan, and her age onq;iwi<Wp| >n4#&rft. lived so long that her relatives had lost sight of her for a 1 though she had grandchildren that were well-to-do, she was suffered to end her days as-» pensioner Jof the Littlec Sisters "|f Tfrit she 4i4 notf droop'’arid lose her spirits. She was as happy as the days were long. She used to sing, tell stories, and even dame* fSrtthe crones in- ther; hospital. Every aay she* would sfroll into'the infirmary with a big jews-harp, and sit there, for hours playing uncertain jigs and rickety' reels, and contriving 'to bring brick jrowan cheeks “the finsTi of excitement and to dull; eves the I'ght of other days. Only five days before her death she entertained her com-panionih'n-tliiipray,'arid during hey -jllness she amused herself with her jews-harp, joking, laughing, and singing, whistling, and smiling like a girl of sixteen. A few; hours before herdeath .the Jittlei old lady remarked to the doctor, ” I’m strong and hearty an ! shall live to a good old age.” It was her last joke. 11 is not every centenarian who cantrip through- the Valley of the Shadow, keeping step to the creaking jangle of a rusty jews harp. o. j-TTtr; ’ft -. .. . ’ ■ I From our exchanges we learn thrdl io neaoly eveyy stream tiout have been liberated they have increased, and good catches a>e frequently made. In the Earnscleugh however, they do not appear to havethrive 1 so.welL : j A very careful Bridgeport man always carries a bottle of whisky in his pocket as an antidote foi rattlesnake bites. He is now over 53.years old and has never once died of a rattlesnake bite, and be attributes his escape to the antidote. —Norristown Herald. An attorney was making a high flown speech the other day, telling about angels’ tears, weeping willows, and silent tomb stones, when His Honor said—’Confine your,.remarks to, the dog fight ” hatest American Invention.—A Troy inf ventor will shortly take out a patent for a eataphoue. By .wines stretched along backjOTcV fences and’ housetops he conveys, with the aid of some machinery, concatenated caterwauls into an air-tight barred. By another simple contrivance the sound cun be compressed, and can be use 1 in quantities for fire and burglar a.arms. The inventor savs it is useful for blasting rocks. Pnde and a hot summer go’s before a fall. Peadlocks. —Fal.e curls. A Hard Thing to Sharpen.—The water’s edge. The Butchers ’Song.—” The suet buy and buy.” A Small hoy and a gun are harmless when apart, hut they make a terrific combination. ! Even the hest-fo-do dentists have to lead a hand-to-mouth existence. . ,j