AN INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 798, 3 August 1877, Page 4

AN INTERESTING BIOGRAPHY.

—o—'Will shortly fae issued, and in active preparation, a volume entitled, “ The Bast Hours of Methuselah. 1 ' The writer is evidently conversant with his subject, and was in early days intimately* connected with Methuselah in Business. Mr M was just cutting his fourteenth set of teeth at the ago of ‘968, when death snaked him in. It appears that he evinced no disposition to enter the hymeneal state until his 175 th year, when he became enamoured of a young lady named Sheba, some 58 years his junior. The marriage was a very happy one, and Mr and Mrs Methuselah lived together for over 200 years very happily, having raised a family of 769 children. Their only sorrow consisted in the loss of some 200 and odd little ones, who fell victims to measles, croup, and whooping -cough during their infancy. On the death of his first wife Methuselah was so profoundly affected that he remained single for 64 years. In the prime of his manhood his heart was again touched by the beauty of a young lady named Miriam. His second marriage was very unhappy, and he only lived 114 years with Mi s Methuselah nurn, her two, when he obtained a divoi’ce He subsequently married eleven times and died of a broken heart, caused by ‘the perfidy of his thirteenth wife. He was followed to the grave by 31,422 of his lineal descendants, the eldest of whom was only 300 years his junior. It is the opinion of the author that Methuselah might still be living and going round with the boys had he not ‘taken to heart so seriously the bad conduct of his last and well-beloved spouse. It is not a pleasant thought for any woman that the want of fealty of one of their sex may possibly have deprived the world of one of its oldest ■and most experienced inhabitants.— •San Francisco News Letter.