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Show HAVE LONG DURATION OF LIFE Ufa Salt Water Denizens Attain Immense Age, If Scientific Investigations Are Correct. ted Water, particularly salt water. I seems to conduce to longevity. There are gigantic mussels and oysters whose age is assumed to be comparable compar-able only with that of the Cape Verde t baobab tree and the big tree of Caii-d" Caii-d" fornia, which live for 5,000 years. In-!tl In-!tl deed, there appears no particular ts reason why mussels should ever die, " though it is also true that, consider-s' consider-s' lng the sort of life a mussel leads, lr there seems no particular reason why it should ever have lived. " Sea anemones, again, delicate and f sensitive though they look when we 1 see them in the rock pools, may attain at-tain great age. Sir John Dalyell, a 1 Scottish naturalist, captured in J.S28 a sea anemone of the liver-colored sort so common around our shores. Its age was then estimated at seven years. It flourished in Edinburgh until un-til 1887, and was just attaining a vigorous vigor-ous and sober maturity when, from some unknown cause, it died. London Lon-don Mail. |