Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1913 — HAVE LONG DURATION OF LIFE [ARTICLE]

HAVE LONG DURATION OF LIFE

Galt Water Denizens Attain Immense Age, If Scientific Investigation^ Are Correct. Water, particularly salt water, seems to conduce to longevity. There are gigantic mussels and oysters whoße age is assumed to be comparable only with that of the Cape Verde baobab tree and the big tree of California, which live for 6,000 years. Indeed, there appears no particular reason why mussels should ever die, though it is also true that, considering the sort of life a mussel leads, there seems no particular reason why It should ever have lived. Sea anemones, again, delicate and sensitive though they look when we see,them in the rock pools, may attain great age. Sir John Dalyell, a Scottish naturalist, captured in 1828 a sea anemone of the liver-colored sort bo common around our shores Its age was then estimated at seven years. It flourished In Edinburgh until 1887, and waß just attaining a vigorous and sober maturity when, from some unknown cause, it died.—London Mail.