A wearer of the St.Helena medal--a distinction awarded to survivors of the Napoleonic campaigns, and who lives at Grand Fayt, also in the Nord--is one hundred and three years old, and has been for the last sixty-eight years a sort of rural policeman in his native commune.

It is a rather remarkable fact in connection with the examples of longevity cited that in almost every instance the centenarian is a person in the humblest rank of life.
According to the compilers of these records, France can claim the honor of having possessed the oldest woman of modern times.

This venerable dame, having attained one hundred and fifty years, died peacefully in a hamlet in the Haute Garonne, where she had spent her prolonged existence, subsisting during the closing decade of her life on goat's milk and cheese.

The woman preserved all her mental faculties to the last, but her body became attenuated to an extraordinary degree, and her skin was like parchment." In the last ten years the St.James' Gazette has kept track of 378 centenarians, of whom 143 were men and 235 were women.

A writer to the Strand Magazine tells of 14 centenarians living in Great Britain within the last half-dozen years.
It may be interesting to review the statistics of Haller, who has collected the greatest number of instances of extreme longevity.