Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — OLD MEN AND OLD THINGS. [ARTICLE]

OLD MEN AND OLD THINGS.

The Bey. David I* Hunn, of Buffalo, Is thought to be the oldest living graduate of Yale College Mr. Hunn Is hearty at the age of 93 years. A Peiwbxlvania lady has an egg which she claims Is 103 years old. She la saving It for Oscar Wilde when he makes his first appearon the stage In this country. The Bev. James Freeman Clarke, of Boston, has lust completed his 74th year. Phy*> Icaßy and mentally he yet seems as vigorous as he was thirty years ago. An elm tree planted near a Connecticut house seventy years ago has shoved the building more than a foot from its original foundations, and now threatens to topple It over, In order to get more room for its spreading rootft. Thebe Is a man living in Georgia at the age of 75 years whose father was 101 years old when the former was born, and who lived to accompany him to the polls to oast his first vote. The son now splits rails, builds fences, digs goobers, and olds fair to live as long as his father. , L