LONGEVITY ON THE ISLAND. It is a matter of unusual' interest, and worthy of special mention, that among the good people whose lives are briefly chroni¬ cled in these pages, many lived to be more than four score years of age, a number to be more than four score and ten, and sev¬ eral to be more than five score: At first view it will doubtless seem somewhat re¬ markable that on this far northern island, which is subject to the rigors, of almost arc¬ tic winters, and over whose shores, during several months of the year, the waters of the great Gulf break frequently with all the vio¬ lence the stormy can give them, such longevity of human life is of so com¬ mon occurrence as to make it a subject of deeply interested and general comment. But a little reflection will show that the fact at first so surprising only proves the virility and hardihood of the people who inhabit the Island, and their sufficiency for any condi¬ tions and requirements that may befall them. Moreover, Nature, in her system of constant compensations and balancing of forces, fur¬ nishes these people, in the very rigor of their climate and the exactions of their daily lives, the stimulus that gives them such firmness of fiber and enduring vitality. ' We note a case of extraordinary inter¬ est, even amid extraordinary conditions. Near the village of Alma in Prince county, on the , there died a few years ago one Mrs. Donald Graham , who, at the time of her death lacked but fourteen days of being one hundred and eleven years old. There can be no doubt as to the correctness of the chronology in this case, as the bap¬ tism of the woman in her childhood is a matter of record in the church where it oc¬ curred. Her maiden name was Brown, and she was a daughter of John Brown , of lottetown. When she was seven years old a vicious rooster pecked out one of her eyes, but this only seemed to make the other grow stronger, and it retained its strength and luster to the end of this long and busy Kfe, Mrs. Graham being able to read and sew without glasses to the day of her death. She was very vivacious and highly vitalized, al* ' ways in good spirits, and seemingly ready: to dare Fate herself into the lists and meet her on almost equal terms, when adversities came strong being most radiant in her cour¬ age and cheerfulness. Her memory was re- ' markably good, and her reminiscences of the early clays on the Island—those days of sim¬ plicity in life and iron seriousness of pur¬ pose—wherein heroic men and women were laying the foundations of what is in itself a glorious little empire, whose rule of produc¬ tion is "greatness, not bigness," were ex¬ ceedingly interesting in the narration, and unquestionably very truthful in "the details, and were always heard with close attention.