THE SPAN OF LIFE.
A Mexican who has just died at the alleged age of ISS has been predeceased (according to an American paper) during the past dozen years or so by a citizen oi New Brunswick, aged 132, and a comparative youngster of Valley Mills, Texas, whose age was only 115. The Englishman in the street will be pardoned for thinking that the ISS had been inadvertently transposed from a cricket report. Among ex Biblical heroes, probably Old Parr and Henry Jenkins will stand as the best authenticated instances of super-longe-vity. The monument at Bolton (Yorkshire) records that Jenkins attained “ the amazing age of 169.” Jenkins was able to give evidence on oath concerning matters 140 years or so previous. As a hale young centenarian he was in the habit of swimming the Swale “ with ease,” and as a boy he is said to have taken a horse load of arrows to be forwarded north for the battle of Floddeu.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1019, 5 November 1912, Page 4
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161THE SPAN OF LIFE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1019, 5 November 1912, Page 4
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