Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Married One Hundred Years. [ARTICLE]

Married One Hundred Years.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of a marriage is a silver wedding, the fiftieth is a golden wedding, the seventyfifth is a diamond wedding, but what is the one hundredth? An impossible thing, says the learned editor, when the question is referred to him. Yet such a wedding is actually reported as celebrated not long ago in the town of Zsombolyl, Hungary, where the venerable couple have long been allowed a pension in recognition of their great age and their fidelity to each other. The marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as having taken place in May, 1793, at which time, according to the record, they were of marriageable age. As in Hungary at that time a bridegroom must have reached the age of ZO and a bride that of 15, the pair must now be at least 120 and 115 years old.

The highest pressure used to drive a water wheel is claimed by a valley near Grenoble, France, where a turbine ten feet in diameter has been operated since 1857 with ahead of 1,638 feet. A flow of about seventy-five gallons of water per second give’s a force of 1,500horse power. Do not force others to bear the burden of your song.