BRIDEGROOM OF 140.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 November 1921, Page 11

BRIDEGROOM OF 140.

CHECKS A BRAT OF NINETY-TWO. MR. JENNINGS FINDS SOME OLD FOLKS. “You often hear about the end of the day of the old man,’, said Mr. W. T. Jennings. M.P., on his return to the Dominion, “but I came across some remarkable instances of vitality in some old ’uns during my trip round the world. In Constantinople T was taken to see an old fellow called Zaro, who is reported to <be 140 years of age. The other day the cablegrams said he had just been married for the fourth time, and I disbelieved it, but General Harrington and others assured me it was a fact and took me to see the patriarch. Whatever doubt there may be about him being 140, he is a very old man, much over the century. They told me that a week before the marriage Zaro had a row with one of his children—a lad of 92 years of age—and kicked the young fellow out of the home. An enterprising firm of New York show people has been trying to get him to come over for exhibition purposes, but so far without result.

“Another instance of longevity 1 eame across was at Winnipeg, where I saw photographs of a Moose Jaw Indian, who was reported to be 18'5 years of age. He certainly looked it from the photographs. “The third case was that of Dr. Stephen Smith, of New York, who is 100 years of age. He says that, at sixty years of age, he found he was passing away, and resolved to diet himself. He quaintly said it was a case of diet or die. At present he is very much alive, and is to open the Public Health Association’s meeting in New York on NoXWftber 15 next,” \