Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-01
BIOGRAPHY OF METHUSELAH.
His Tremendous Boyhood---His Ricl
and Rare Experience as Boy.

From the Cincinnati eaturd, ~ Night
w hat d lremenuUus boyhOOd old Me
thuselah had? He died at the rather 2d
vanced age of 969 years, about 900 wears
more Than mans span OF life At that
rate, when he was goo years old, he about
equaled an ordinary lad of sixteen. He
was thirty or forty before his parents
bought hlm a rattle to play with, am he
dldn have the meas es and other infan-
tile diseases until he was over 100. He
was in 10 SOFT Of hurry about these things,
as be had SO far TO 60. We imagine that
he was rather delicate child to begin
with, as most people were VINO lived to "a
great age. We Can imagine his mothers
anxiety with regard to his delica,e con
stitution, telling Mrs. Brown across the
way, en- his nineteenth birthday, that she
was atald she never would be able to
raise that child.n Generations of men
lived and passed away while he was 60
ing aToun' in petlicoats, sand he was al
most centenarian when he get his first
boots. His father used 10 hex him when
ne was $50 Tor robin. neighbor's wa
tefmelon patch.
Young Methuselah was probably in
| the vicinity OF hundred years Old when
he was first sent to school We can i'm
aglne him sitting on the low bench learn
Ing the b-ab's, among the great great
grand children of people who began life
when he did. He was mschievous. of
course-all boys are, no matter what their
age 1--WE experience mild fliskiness
ourselves OCCASIONALLY, and had to be
punished for it.
william Henry Methuselab, stand up!"
says the teacher, catching him in the very
act OF placing a bent pin in a seat
where schooimate WIS about to SIT down
What do you mean by such conduct as
this2o
Young Mathuselah begins to snifiie
and wipe his eyes On the Corner of lis
Jacket.
'ohe would think" continues the
teacher, sternly. THAT you wasn't over
seventy five or eighty years Old by the
ay you behave. Instead of that YOU
have already celebrated your first centen-
Mat almost young man, in fact. You
ought to be ashamed OF YOURSELF
Fnen Methuselah is condemned, as an
expiarlon, to sit among the girls,'' until
recess. and you think that isl t an agree.
able form OF punishment you will have
to ask some one oider than Metbuselah
Whenever circus came to town, with
children bait price . on It's bills. Young
hethuselah musi have experienced diff
Guilty in making the ticket-seller under.
stand that he vas entitled to go in on
hait price ticket, particularly after he
had got along toward his 200th wear.
But he probably did it. Boys are enter
prlslng and persistent where circus is
concerned. And we viii bet that Me,hus.
elah. IN his youthful DAYS, could accumu-
late as much odd iron as the next boy,
and lay II up for the coming show.
When this youngster got in his teens
say from 200 to 800 years old--he lrob-
ably did as other young gentlemen of
tender age do, went around wi the
girls 1t must have been a little empar-
RAISING to him, after beaung Young
lady about spell-taking her to concerts,
parties, balls "tc.-to discover, that she
was great-great-granchild Of some old
trend OF his fathers, but these things
are inevitable under the peculiar ana ex-
ceptlonal character OF the circumstances.
they could hardly be otherwise. There
Is no record to show that any woman
lived in his time to an age that would
compare with his. And if there had. the
world would never have known it.
At least. not from her. She wouldn't
have acknowledged to ANYTHING over
forty had she lived twice the age of
Methuselah. That Is the kind of hair
pin woman is.
Emp Dying the proportion of twenty
one to seventy to Methuselahs years. we
ind that he was a minor until he was o70
years old If the laws regulating minors
were enforced in his day, young Methuse-
lab must have been run out of billiard |
rooms and shut out from bars for over
two centuries. And what a sensation must
nave been created when he stepped I'D
to deposit his Irst vote. Of course he |
voted Tor all the Presidents, from Wash
lngton (whom he remembers shaking |
hands with down. All the old men did |
that. And when he got to be along in
years, say 900 or such a matter. be could |
SIT and tell the boys about the hard win
ter OF 80, and the panic of 81. and the
Hood OF 80, and the hard cider campaign
OF 40, and all that sort of thing. This
Is all we have to write at present OF
Methuselah, the original coolest inhabi-
tant."
A graduate of one of our leading Amer
lean colleges is arfino 90 ooo,, a. 49,, r