Nov. 26. we take the tokens' of old age to be the bowed form, shrivelled skin, hair grey and scanty, trembling limbs, and various other mental and physical signs of decrepitude, then in Shanghai the men of foreign birth who have reached old age seem to be very few. What becomes of them all? They do not die here, for the graves in the cemeteries, sad to say, are nearly all of the young. and middle-aged. Some of the more lucky seniors have acquired a competence or fortune and gone home, but in these hard times the number must be very small. Is old age nowadays so cleverly concealed, as when a venerable actor plays the part of a young gallant, that we fail to recognize it? Or, as some of our correspondents are earnestly inquiring, has an elixir of life or fountain of youth been at last discovered, so that ina marvellous way the shadow on Time's dial can be made to move several degrees backward: and every old man be able to renew his youth? Whatever
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