A CENTURY HENCE.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4594, 26 September 1883, Page 2

A CENTURY HENCE.

The following items are from " The Boston Daily Globe," which bears the date of printing 1981:—

As some boys were playing in an open lot t near Broad street yesterday, a heavy package fell from a passing aerial car. It struck Harry Hall; a lad of some 10 years, on the head, and crushed the skull so that the brains were exposed. Dr Donolley was called at once ; the crushed bones were removed, and their place supplied with the magnetic ossitier.' The operation required some little time, but the boy was able to be out last evening. The first execution under the law, of Illinois, which makes it a capital <jrjme to borrow money, took place at Chicago yesterday at the hour of noon. The poor /ajpretch who then paid the penalty for the misdeeds was a professional broker. Oa the .3rd ulfc. he went into the office of the leading bootblack of the city, a man of great wealth and well-known generosity, and tried to get ten cents, representing that he was starving under the operation of the act forbidding loans. la his despair fcho impoverished dabbler in stocks forgot that he was himself violating the very law under which ho was suffering. But that did not excuse him. .A* dozen witnesses were on the spot to testify to the rash act. He was promptlyconvicted, and, in the discretion of the court, was sentenced to death by poison. The dose ordered was a dram of Lake Michigan water. The victim died in great agony.

The body of Jamea Jackson, who was drowned on Tuesday evening last by failing overboird in Boston harbor, was re» covered yesterday morning and handed to the harbor medical relief physicians, who soon restored him to consciousness. Seventy-two hours elapsed between his drowning a|d resuscitation. One hundred years ago tHiy would have buried the maa as soon as they found him. •'$ Albert Prince recovered §10,000 from the National-Horse and Cattle Life Insurance Company at the last term of the Supreme Court, for the loss of fire valaable horses that were killed last fall by the explosion of the hot-air reservoirs on Spring Street, near Mr Prince's Residence. The company will now sue the city for damages, alleging that the reservoirs wero imperfectly constructed andunfifc to supply the pipes for warming the streets.

The oldest man iv the world is residing in Bogota. His name is Miguel LoUo, of Spanißh Criollo race, and he is 180 years old ! Dr Hernandez, who heard of him, wont to see him and found him atwork in a garden. His skin is like parchment, and his hair as white as snow. He eats only once a day, and takes his meals in a half hour, as he says that system is beatfor digestion. He fasts on the Ist and 15th of .erery month, and he drinks a large quantity of pure wate^... He never tastes dishes that are hot or^Utritire. and such is the confidence that he has in his dietary system that he never diverges from it. Where is Melehisedech now? and shouldn't this be a shove along for the blue-ribbon army ? In " Girls Gossip " in Truth, M&dge writes :—" You say that girls 'who. want to have good complexions should wash their faces in almost boiling water. Not only girls should do this, but women who do not want to get wrinkles. lam about fifty, and have not a wrinkle. This is due to my having washed my face night and morning with very hot water. The water tightens the skin, and prevents it from wrinkling." She further adds, that she uses hot water twice a day—once when dressing for dinner, and again when going to bed—and she finds Out a Httfe extract of elder flowers dropped into the * water makes it soothing and grateful '"' daring the hot and freckly time of year. " You see, I never contradict, and I sometimes forget," said Lord Beaconsfield when asked why he was a fomrite of the Queen,