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Evening Star, Issue 3390, 2 January 1874, Page 2

The way to treat a man of doubtful credit is to take a note of him. Our schoolboy remarks that when his teacher undertakes to “show him what is what,” he only finds out which is switch. A boarder, of a Shakespearian turn, says that his bed reminds him of Richard 111, because it is “deformed, unfinished,” and scarce half made up.” Five German families, all related to each other and living in one school district in Wisconsin, have seventy-live children among them, all sound and healthy. An American contemporary says:—“ The oldest man in the world has at length neeu discovered. His name is Josie Martino Contiho, a resident of Cape Frio, in the province of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, who was born on the 20th of May, 1694, and is therefore nearly one hundred and eighty years old ! It is said that he has forty-two children by six wives, and can count one hundred and twenty-three grandchildren, eighty-six great grandchildren, and twenty children of the last.”