William Riddell, who died at one hundred and sixteen carefully avoided water all his life and had a love for brandy.
Possession of Faculties .-- Eglebert Hoff was a lad driving a team in Norway when the news was brought that Charles I was beheaded.

He died in Fishkill, N.Y., in 1764 at the age of one hundred and twenty-eight.
He never used spectacles, read fluently, and his memory and senses were retained until his death, which was due to an accident.

Nicolas Petours, curate of the parish of Baleene and afterward canon of the Cathedral of Constance, died at the age of one hundred and thirty-seven; he was always a healthy, vigorous man, and celebrated mass five days before his death.

Mr.Evans of Spital Street, Spitalfields, London, died in 1780 aged one hundred and thirty-nine, having full possession of his mental faculties.

Of interest to Americans is the case of David Kinnison, who, when one hundred and eleven, related to Lossing the historian the tale of the Boston Tea Party, of which he had been a member.