People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1895 — A Centenarin[?] Donkev. [ARTICLE]

A Centenari n[?] Donkev.

Herbivorous animals ar • generally thought to outlive earn vorotis ones, and of the former e ass thos > dedicated to labor aopear to furni-.h tho largest number of instances o' longevity. A few years ago a d<-rikey died at Cromartv which was known to b-at l ast li)i ye irs oi I. it co dd be traced back to the year 177't. vhen, atari unknown age. it came nto ihe hands of thi then Ross of Cromarty, and it lived in th • same family ••hale and heartv,” until a kick Imm a horse ended its career. No horse is know i to have attained to anything litre such an age as this, b-.t a few have lived to ages varying from 40 to 50 years.