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Show THORNTON AND HIS BUCKETS. The Former Is One Hundred and the L.aU ter Are Seventy-five Years Old. Obed Thornton of Arcade, N. Y., has got his two sap buckets ready for use in the maple sugar making season of 1894, says a correspondent. There would be nothing particularly noticeable in that fact, because scores of other people in sugar regions are getting their sap buckets buck-ets ready in the same way, but these two buckets of Obed Thornton were made by him in 1819, and he has used them every season 6ince. More than that he was 25 years old when he made the buckets and three weeks ago celebrated cele-brated the oue hundredth anniversary of his birth. Mr. Thornton came to Wyoming county coun-ty from New Hampshire in 1818. He drove an ox team all the way. He settled set-tled on the farm where he has lived ever since. He has been back to his old New Hampshire home three times and made the journey each time on foot. In 1844 one of his teeth began to ache. Some one told him that if he applied tobacco smoke to the tooth it would stop the aching. He began smoking a pipe. The tooth quit aching. He has smoked almost constantly ever since and has the same tooth yet. Mr. Thorn--ton has nevr had to use glasses, and his hearing is as good as it ever was. He is as lively as a man of 50. |