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Show HE IS 120 YEASfl OLD. aaawjawatoawaaaaaa Egypt puts In a elatnt td posses the oldest person lq the world, one Ahmed Sellm. who has Just turned six score. Ha remember Napoleon In Egypt, or saya he does, and how ha scattered the Mamelukes before hlra "with his whirlwind whirl-wind word," more potent than evea the prophet' heaven-descended blade. He waa long a slave In Cairo, but Is now bedridden and taken care of by a great-granddaughter, great-granddaughter, herself welt along In ; years. Old Arabs remember him as an , old man when they war. boys, and have t bo difficulty In believing that ha to a aged aa he saya he ia. . t ' - - ' |