The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-06-21
On the steps it's nice to listen
While he tells the story old,
Then the loved ones eyes will glisten
And she'll catch her death of cold.
The Oldest InhsbItaDts.
her BABY.

HER BABY.
Mrs. Ann Hopkins, OF Cedar Creek,
Tenn, is III years old. She has three
sons living, her 4" baby" being 80
years of age.-New York Times.
AN EDITORS REMARKABLE MEMORY.
The Oldest woman in the world is
Eulalia Perez, now living in Los An
geles, California. She is one hundred
and forty years old, and still uses her
needle.
NOT TO BE BELIEVED.
A news item states that Miguel Soils.
q farmer living near BogOta, South
America, is $50 years old I; but as moth
ing is said about him cutting four cords
of wood after supper, or blowing a
forty-acre field before breakfast, not
much confidence can be placed in the
tatement.-Norristo Herald.
GONE TO GROW UP WITH THE COUNTRY.
Medford township can boast of the
oldest inhabitant In the person Of Lucy
Dupee, a eolored lady, who has reached
the remarkable age of log years. She
has little girl who is So, and as spry
as children of that age usually are.
She has come to Kansas for her health
and to grow up with the country.
When the assessor called to see her the
old lady was sewing without the aid OF
glasses, and says she can walk as much
as g miIe at time without fatigue,
She is an orphan.-Hutchinson. Kan.
Interior.
NO GLASSES FOR HIM.
The Boston Journal gives the follow
ing account of Major ApollOs Phelps,
of Sufield, Conn.,, now 90 years of age
His hair is snowy white, but It grows
1 a. rlgya q hn fc Ell oh IL
to read without spectacles. He lives
within sixty rods of where he was
born, and his fathers family were six
six-footers. he used no liquor during
his lifetime, and has brought up ter
children. He was noted in his youth
for his athletic sttainments, insomuct
that he tells of lifting 100 pound
milestone at AgawaTn, used to GRIND
bark, and of raising horse from the
ground by getting under him."
THE OLDEST MAN IN OHIO.
On Monday afternoon the village o.
Lodi, Medina county. did honor tx
Lomer Griffin, its oldest inhabissnt
and probabl the oldest human being
in the United States, by observing tbs
10th anniversary of his birthday.
BORN IN 1854.
James James, or 60 Double Jimmy,
as he is more Familiarity called, live
on farm twelve miles south of Wealth.
erford, Parker county, Texas, with hii
daughter, Mrs. Nancy Wheat, 63 year
of age. This old gentleman was borE
near the Red House, in Prince william
county, Virginia, May 10th, 17e4.
AN ZVEN HUNDRED.
George Goethe was born in Hess,
Cassel, April 18th, 1878. His physiqn'
is neither large or small, but solid AND
icOmpactly built. He has had bat tw(
i serious attacks of illness in century
one was severe attack Of measles IL
early manhood, and the bilious feYel
brought hin quite low after he hai
passed his three score years. His lifi
has been one of activity until thu
weight of accommodating years admon
iehed him that his work was about fin
ished. He has always been q temper
ate man. By this is meant that b,
would take his toddy whenever he fel
like it. He has used tobacco TO-
eighty-six years, or since he was four
teen years old, and that, too, of th,
strongest kind that could be grown
Notwithstanding These little 8 irEegu
afities," he has been member Of the
Lutherans church fer over sixty years
Mr.. Goethe has seventeen grandchil
dren. BE is becoming quite feeble
The sands In the hour-glasa Of his lif
!, are nearly run out.-W yandotte, Kan.
Correspondents Kansas City Times.