Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-01-16
HOLDERS OF ODD RECORDS
Unique Distinctions Claimed for People
 All Over the World

Quite the youngest chauffeur in the world is a New York infant, who is only three and one.half years old. His father had built for him petrol motor of one and a quarter horse power and limited in speed to seven miles an hour. The child operates this himself while his father accompanies him on bicy- cle.
 The oldest inhabitdnt in the world is giant tortoise from the Seychelles. It weighs 970 pounds and is known to be over l50 years old. Very probably its age is somewhere about 300 years.
 A distinct record is that held by the Rev. E. Clapton, rector of Stebbing, Essex. On recent Sunday he assisted to ring peal of 720 changes on the bells before church. After this he con ducted the whole service, preached the sermon and played the organ.
 A record in families is that which culminated in remarkable marriage at Worcester. After courtship of a week Mir. Wolf Berenson, who is 9S years old, was married to Mrs, Annie Goldman, lady thirty-one years young CT. IL is stated that Mir. Berenson has seven children, sixty-three grand child ren, seventeen great grand children and one great-great grand child. He has two children in Poland, and two great Russian army, The gride has five ehU- dren and twenty-eight grand children. and, altogether, it is said that the fam ily circle numbers no fewer than l24
 There are ten Lincolnshire agricul tural laborers who are the fathers of l50 children. The Lincolnshire Agrieul tural society awards prizes every year to such race benefactors as these. In one ease competitor had twenty chil dren, of whom seventeen were brought mp and twelve were placed out. In an other ease there were nineteen born, of whom fifteen were brought up and eleven placed out. A record in this di rection is held by Mrs. Mary Gillespie, a woman of S6. She had thirty ehil- dren, made up of fifteen sets of twins.
 A man has lived for eight years in his wife s tomb, thus establishing . record. This is Mir. Jonathan Reed, known as the hermit of Evergreen cem. etery, Brooklyn. He was a retired mer- chant and finally died from a stroke of appoplexy in his wife s tomb, He had lived there for eight years and always refused to believe that his wife was dead Indeed, he contended that death was wholly unnecessary and quite an avoidable experience, which was the result of vital heat, and could be easily remedied by artificial means. As he was wealthy enough to indulge in his pet theory, he had constructed for him mausoleum with elaborate heating facilities. Finally he was found dead on the marble floor.
 Very remarkable is the record which belongs to Mary Dickerson, an old lady of 70. For the past twenty years she has slept standing. The whole night through she remains in an upright DO. sition leaning against a wall. The req son for the adoption of this course is that she finds it the only preventive of terribly disturbing dreams, which are the result of the habit of taking nor phine Even now if she wished to sleep in bed she would have fearful dreams. All piano-playing records have been eclipsed by the playing of Mir. Gardner, at Marseilles. He played the piano for twenty hours. His first rest last ed ten minutes, during which he swal- lowed some soup and poached egg. At other times he took kola and lemonade and was massaged for ten minutes. After this he went OF playing until an other rest, when he partook of two eggs and wing of a chicken, washed down with glass of Bordeaux and a cup of coffee. When eramp seized the artist s fingers, they were immediately massaged and some more kOla and a glass of champagne were given him Toward the end of his task the pianist E face became very eongested and his hands were very much swollen, while his arms had to be propped up with | cushions. He won wager of f40 and afterward collapsed owing to the nerv. ous strain.
 Very recently billiard match was played in Paris which lasted for twenty four hours During the whole period the players did not leave the room for more than a minute at time. The match took place between Jules Cohen .I4 they walked about thirty miles during the course of the game.-Tid Bits.