Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1901 — Old Age in Spain. [ARTICLE]

Old Age in Spain.

▲ Madrid correspondent says that ilnce many municipalities announced that they would confer a pension for life on all persons In their respective localities who had attained the age of 100 years on the Ist of January, hundreds of centenarians have appeared. At Seville there is a beggar in hlsJOSth year; Barcelona boasts of a farmer 116 years of age; while Valencia rejoices In a mason who claims to have attained the great age of ISO years, and ia Still hale and hearty. At the age of 88 be was old In war against Napoleon, and remember the principal episodes In the great Bonaparte’s career. At Tortoaa there has been baptized a girl, named Elisa Sagnrra, In the presence of Its mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother, and great-great-grand-mother. The latter, who was 98 years of age, stood as a godmother.