Show INSTANCES Modern Modem Cases Case Where Where- Persons Have Lived to Great Age The average a duration of oC human life liCe f- f seems wems ems at first to have been abnormally high and then to have sunk quite low only Only to to be ral raised d again Of or course no noone noone noone one Is ever er likely to equal the 9 years attributed to Methuselah or the years cars of or Jared but there Ec to b bs no good reason why the ape age of or or eo so should hould not be reached in the future a great deal more often oCten than it now v Is In the seventeenth sC century the average e euge age uge to which mankind lived w was s only just over 13 13 but then they had to contend contend con- con tend against war var famine and pestilence pestilence pestilence lence as well veIl as doctors The average at present Is about 38 38 which Includes of or course course Infant mortality Further ItIs it itIs itis Is computed that In England at the present ent time out of 1000 people over o each i-each tho the ago of ot 75 73 75 thirty eight reach 85 and md two attain to 9 93 5 while one person person per per- son In about every becomes a centenarian cen cun- In former Orator times however howe a 3 aman aman man of 50 SO was considered old and a resident of made a town or a n. village famous amous We re do o not ho however propose here here- hereto to deal with mere centenarians but with in tn inert n who ho ha e ll ed to ages of oC 10 and upward The Record Breaker Dreaker The Tho record probably I Is held heM b by Michael Soils Solis who according to the Lancet L. was living In Bogota In Ho lie claimed to bo be 1 ISO IbO i years old H a l man mm of ot over o eighty years ears ear o of ago o who Investigated b gated the case knew him as 08 a centenarian when he himself IC was a 11 bo boy lint But the tho el signature sig- sig nature natura of ot Michael Michtel Soils Solis who Is Js a halfbreed half half- breed Is extant tant on a document referring to the building of ot a n Franciscan convent at an Salvador Sal under the Ino date 1712 1112 to so that he was not quite BO flO o as ho would wish people to believe o There ther Is Iseri vcr eri little doubt about tho the authenticity of ot this remarkable case The Tho Lancet t in investigated investigated In- In It thoroughly hl In ISiS and camo came to the conclusion that the man was at I least st ISO Years tr old then It wire In 1 r that Dr Hernandez made his Inquiries and nd In n 1 i ho he was still alive so that his sac e. If It he died d In that year ear car eara a was only two years ears short of oC two centuries Michael Soils Solis attributed his extraordinary c lon longe- longe c- c YIt Ity to his re regular ular node mode of or living living- Hou Ho lie u used cd to cat but one m meal 11 a n day and that he lie allowed to get quite cold before beCore he touched It It while hue It consisted of or tho strong strong- est St It and mo most t nourishing foods obtainable For two das da's in every ery week eok eek howeVer howe ho meted fasted and on these occasions only drank rank large quantities o of water Yorkshires Yorkshire's Oldest Man ian A man who nho ho runs rune u a close second to Michad Michael Mich Mich- ad lei ael Soils Solis w-is w born In the parish of ot Bolton Potton Pot Hoi ton In Yorkshire In the year car 1 1500 16 oo This was Henry Benr Jenkins who whoa was a brought tit tip to tho business of ot a n fisherman which em employment loment ho he followed for o over HI IP years On the occasion of or a n trial In York involving Invoking the question que of ot a custom which had been beez followed for tor or years uncounted Jenkins was call called us ns being tho the oldest man In the parish to give 11 e evidence In addition to him were called two other ether men men both hoth on the tho theer er verge o of ot a n hundred who both declared on oath to the Judge that Jenkins was an old man when whon thc they were wre little bo boys The Tho ngo age of ot this modern Me Me- was exact exactly V years ears less than that o of the tho real patriarch for Cor or ho was laid to rest In church In the year car I i. J. J when he was IK lc years rears old Tho The InterestIng Interest- Interest In Ing things In hl history tory which this old oIl man mansaw saw siw happen were extraordinary When hen ho was wis born popery IT was by law the established religion He lie saw the tho Papal su supremacy su- su supremacy thrown ore off two queens beheaded the monasteries dissolved crl and amI the Protestant Pro Pro- become the law Jaw of ot th the land Th Then T popery came In again and was finally overthrown O toro forever During his hla time tho tue hole Whole n navy of ot Spain was do- do b by tho the English and tho republic of r Holland was as as formed He lie wa was w In fact tact I Ian an witness eye of at the most stirring scenes I of oC modern history Thomas Parr Next t came the tho famous Thomas Parr This man lived JI during the reigns re of ot ten sovereigns of ot England and holds tho the record rec rec- Of old ord 1 In that particular Jenkins having seen sec only eight reigns reigns not not ns-not not including tho com corn Parr wa was 11 lIving Ing at tho the same earns Um time as Jenkins iris having hn been born In and he died dl-d lii- lii In 11 ig which makes his ago ngo years ONUS He was a n husbandman and followed this calling steadily for 13 sears carR Ho lIe was vas twice married the second time when hen he ha ought to fo o have c known better that better that I Is when whets ho he was aged years ears Tho The offspring ore off spring of oC this marriage e was a n son who apparently al Inherited hl his fathers father's recipe for longevity lt for or ho he managed to keep kelp alive for Cor Ill years and had a son who made madea maden a n attempt to emulate his grandfather grand grand- father b by living ll to the a ago age e of oC years eara Women omen have ha their share sharo of ot longevity long Just as men have e but they do not attain to nearly the same as their wor worse o I halves old Tho The oldest known knox Is probably Mrs Irs Nancy Nanc H el She Is a a. lady of or color and Ond has attained tI to the nto as of oC l years Her tier case caso was In Investigated by the Kev Re C. C Lee some six years ago aJo and he ho then found round nor her a are age e to be years The gentleman who died In his ninetieth year remembered Mrs Hollifield as his nurse antI and that she had at that time Ime several sc children to so O that the estimate cannot be far Car short of or the mark She Sho lives nt near nar ar Ellenborough N N. C C. C London Standard |