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Show A Centenarian's Sixty-nine Children. The death is reported in Turkey of a Mohammedan named Hadzi Sulejman Saba, who had reached tho very respect- able age of 133. IIo had 6even wives, sixty sons and nine daughters and had survived them ail. At the time he mar-1 ried his last wife ho was 98 nnd when she joined the majority he was still so! far under the influence of love's young1 dream that he wanted to marry again. ! but the state of his finances did not per- mit of any further participation in matri- monial joys. With the exception of j meat ct tho Dairara festival he lived cx- j clusivciy on Larley bread and beans, drinking only water, but ou this spare ; diet he managed to preserve his health so well that until four davs before ho ! ended his long career he did not know : what it was to be ill. London Figaro. . |