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PRIDE.


Theophile, the French poet, dedicated a book to James I. of England,
in the hope of being personally introduced to that monarch, but being
disappointed in this expectation he wrote the following lines on the
subject:--

"Si Jacques Roi de grand savoir
N'a pas trouvé bon de me voir,
En voici la cause infallible;
C'est que ravi de mon ecrit
Il cout que j'etois tout esprit
Et par consequent invisible."

A.B.M

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LONGEVITY.


The English have two instances on record of remarkable longevity, that
of Henry Jenkins, a Yorkshire fisherman, who died 1670, aged 169; and
Thomas Parr, who died 1635, aged 152. The Russians appear to be the
longest lived of any people, as a proof of this the following article