has passed-away in the person of Victor Baillot, of Laroche, in the department of the Yonne. This tough old veteran was Dorn in April, 1793, and was consequently nearly 103 years old at the time of his death. He was cut down by a British trooper at Waterloo and owed his life to the remarkable thickness of his skull. He was taken prisoner and conveyed to England, whence he returned after the peace. He endeavoured to re-enter the army but was rejected as unfit for service, the doctors finding that he had consumptive tendent cies! Evidently Victor Baillot's consumption' was not of the kind known as "galloping" inasmuch as it took eighty-two years to kill its victim. The secret of his long life seems to have Lain in a phlegmatic- temperament and regular habits. He was never known to get excited or to delay a meal. He lived chiefly on eggs and vegetables, and put plenty of water in his wine. Meat he tasted only occasionally. His second wife died when he was 81 years old, and for the next fourteen years he lived [quite alone in his cottage, cultivating his garden and attending to his wants. During the last few years of his life he was under the care of his daughter, a young woman of sixty or so. Three years ago President Felix Faure, in the course of one of his tours, decorated the old fellow with the cross of the Legion of Honour: which shows that merit is bound to meet with its reward, even if it has to wait about eighty years to get it. It is certainly not every day that one hears of man who earned a distinction under seapelion: and received it under M. Felix aura.
11th February.
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