Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Age and Intellect. [ARTICLE]

Age and Intellect.

The history of literary and scientific men furnishes many an illustrious example of intellectual powe r undimmed and undiminished by the influences of old age.- Plato, Bacon, Milton, Burke, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Gladstone, and Bancroft, Whittier, and Holmes, of America, exhibited and exhibit to the latest the same ability which distinguished their earlier years. It may be doubted, however, whether this kind of exemption from the effects of age is not chiefly confined to men of. extraordinary endowments. But case 1- , of mental deterioration are common enough, and are the rule among the inferior grades of intellect.

A battlesnake was recently killed in Lee County, Ga., which was eleven feet long, had nineteen rattlas and a button, and in his stomach a full-grown rabbit. Even a naturalist would not care to confront such a reptile in a narrow path.

Nothing satisfactory can be spiritually obtained in which selfishness has ever so slight a share; and what we will to do, especially if it be any act ok spiritual progress, we caa always accomplish. — Anari.