The bee., 1883-03-10
GOOD OLD AGE.
Wen and Women Who Have Lived More
Than One Hundred Years.

The longevity of the patriarchs may
: not be attained. but the century-post is
passed by more people than one would
suppose. If modern scientists may be
, believed, the Biblical characters who
were said to have reached a phenome-
nal age were really much younger than
the scriptural record nales it appear.
The question rests altogether on the
proper translation of certain words,
and the claim set up by many philolo-
gists of this day is that the translators
of the Bible erred in making the patri-
arehs so long-lived. Thus it is held
by one scientist who has given the sub
ject close study that Adam, instead of
reaching the age of $50 years, as is al
legged in the existing version of the
Bible, really died at 1870; that Seth
died at 121 and not 912; Enos at ia
and not 935; Cain at 119 instead of 910;
Mahalaleel at 122 instead of S35; Jared
at lat instead of 962; Methuselah at
124 instead of $50, and Noah at 159 in
stead of $50. This theory would make
the ancients no older than many men
and women who have died during the
last century or two, and to whose
age there is not much, if any, question.
A few years ago some English author
tiles obstinately asserted that there
was no authenticated instance Of
person reaching one hundred years.
They were soon obliged to recant this
opinion, for undeniable centenarians
turned up, and writers of this school
now affirm LOG to 108 years the high
est possible limit. There is no doubt
tendency to overstate in respect to
the very old, and many false claims
have been exposed. 1t is altogether
probable, however, that persons have
reached considerably greater age
than 108. One United States pensioner
at least attained III, and it is hardly
to be supposed that the age in this
case was misstated years before when
the pension was granted.
There is a tablet in church at
Warsaw, in Poland, erected to the
memory OF priest named Cybuiski,
who was reported to have been born in
1900 and to have died in 1867. 1t is
said that these dates are unquestion-
ably correct:
Daniel Waldo was born at Wind
ham, Connecticut, in 1862 and died in
1864, at the age of 102. He served in
the American army inl 1878 and gradu-
ated at Yale college in 1888. He was
a Congregational minister, and re-
tanned his physical and mental powers
to the last.
Varnavas Panoolos, the Greek pa
triot, who gave his immense fortune
to the cause of his country, died in
1856, aged Ill years.
Thomas Parr, born in Shropshire IN
1843, lived in three centuries. ae
titled the soil until he was more tlAan
130 years old. At 120 he married a
widow, and seemed to be in perfect
health. In 1856 PARIS great age and
his apparent soundness of body and
mind made Linn a great deal of a GU
riosity, and the ESrd of Arundel, think
ing to please his royal master, took
Parr to the court of Charles I. The
old man, whose long life had been
passed in the most simple fashion,
fell a victim to his appetite ut the
kings table, and died of overeasing at
the age of 152. DR.. Harvey made a
post mortem examination and found
no signs of disease.
Charles Macklin, the actor and dra-
matist, was born in IRELAND in 1890.
He remained on the stage until 1889,
and died in 1892, aged 1tb7.
Francis Hupozoli, WHIP was horn in
Sardinia in 1887, died ia 1902 at the
age of lis. He was first a clergyman,
then merchant at 3 eio, and then
Venetian consul at Smyrna. He
married his fifth wife when ninety
eight years old, and had four children
by her. He drank water only, and
never smoked. He kept diary in
twenty-five volumes. Att 100 his gray
hair became black. At lis two large
new teeth came, an6 he began to
eat meat again, but he died two years
later.
Marion Delorme was born in
France in 16la She was the wife of
a member Of the malcoAtent party,
and was prosecuted as sach by Car
dinal Richelieu. She spread rumor
that she was dead in 1880, and got
ND a moek funeral of herself. She
escaped to England and married a
lord, who soon died, leaving $4,000.
On her way to Parh she was robbed
by brigands and compelled to marry
the chief. He died, and she married
M. Laborde. After seventeen years
he died, and she returned to Paris,
where she was robbed Of all her money
by her servants. She lived in poV-
erty to the age of 134.
Letitia Cox, who died at Bybrook,
Jamaica, in 1898, claimed to have been
Young woman when Port Royal was
destroyed by an earthquake, which
was on June 9, 1892. This would
/, make her about 16O years old.
In Sewer county, Arkansas, there is
colored woman named Edna Good
mon, -rllo ie 1a5 yros,rG old Tor tho
last quarter of a century she has fire.
quently talked about dying, each time
winding up her remarks with the wish
that she might live tosee just one more
cotton crop.
Tamah Brooks, colored womanl liv-
ing at Atlanta, Ga, is 123 years old,
and has given birth to several children
since her Tooth birthday.
Henry Johnson was sold on the aue-
tion block in King and Queen county,
Virginia, when eighteen years old.