Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1880 — Ages of Animals. [ARTICLE]

Ages of Animals.

it before, but it will foSnedyfo; \ U T ed tofte afljejUTaeventy. Item* £i°Luu i&XiJSJ Bfejfoanfo here bmlmwn to live tottie aITxX th^ V Great had woquered one Peru*, King of India, he took a great efei>W, which had fought very valiantly for the tiny, mimed him ak <tedic*te«t him to the ran. mod then letUm go with the fe--cription, “Alexander, the sea of Jupiter, 4eafoate< Ajax to the eon.” This elephant wee found with this inscription three handled and fifty jean after. Pigs have been known to live to the age of thirty years; the rhinoceros to twenty. A hone has been known to live to the age of sixty-two, bat avenges twenty-fire to thirty. fiMntln mnTtimw Uvs to too ago of one hundred. Stags an long-lived. Sheep seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows live abont fifteen yean. Cuvier considers it probable that whales srsnorimaa live one thousand yean. The dolphin and porpoise attain the age of thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at toe age of one handled and finor years. Sevens frequently reach the age of one hundred. Swans have been known to lire three hundred years. M. MaUertou has the skeleton of a swan that attained the age of two hundred. A tortoise has been known to live one hundred and seven.