Eureka Reporter | 1906-08-17 | Page 4 | Record-Breaking

record breaking A comparatively oung man was relating his experiences in the late civil war to an attentive crowd with en detail he described numer ous engagements in which he had par laying particular stress up on those in which hand to hand en counters were most evident the con vers atlon drifted to other topics when an old man present suddenly asked him in what year were you borna I 1 was born in 1859 strange commented the elderly party you were born in 1859 and could not have been over 5 years of age at the time you served in the army how can you explain thata without a moment s hesitation and without even the tremor of an eyelid he answered my father earned me on his der