REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF LONGRVITY.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3621, 4 August 1880, Page 2

REMARKABLE INSTANCES OF LONGRVITY.

At a recent religious oeremonuP at the Hofburg, in Vienna; twelre old men were presented to the Bmperor of Austria whose collectire ages amounted to 1082 years, giving an arerage of 90 yean and two months each. One of them was 102 years old.. On; the same occasion i twelre old women were presented to the : Empress, one of whom was. 92 years of age, six were 89, and fire' 88 years, fifing a total of 1066 years. .OnlheVame day, at the Cathedral of St. Stephen; twelre old men were presented to the Cardinal Archbishop, whose colleetire ages amounted to 1017 years. The collectire ages of the whole three; groups (thirty-six persons) amounted to 3165 years, giring an average for each of 87 years and 11 months. During one fortnight there,hare been recorded in the obituary of The Times the deaths, of twenty-fire ladies at ages _ ranging from 85' to 99 years, their united " ages; amounting to 2205 years, giringim average of 88 years and orisr two months to each. Of the opposite sex there wfre twenty-one whose ages ranged from 85,t0 98 years, their [United ages amounting, to 1816 years, giring an arerage of;B7;years and nearly 11 months tdJefcch* v.-.v: ~