Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1881 — One Hundred and Forty Years Old. [ARTICLE]

One Hundred and Forty Years Old.

An audience gathered in the African M. E. Zion Church, Newark, N. J., Thursday night, to listen to a lecture by Dr. Albert Delany, a centenarian. Dr. Delany stated that he was born in Sierra Leone, in 1780, and that his father is still living in Freetown, that colony, at the age of 140 years. Delany is about six feet high, and black. He used good language and talked with considerable fluency. His wife accompanies him. Dr. Delany said that he is one of the 100 native ministers who attended Livingstone in one of his earlier expeditions into Africa, and his discourse was on Africa and the man to whose explorations we owe much of our knowledge about that tropical country. The eccentricity of Louis of Bavaria has broken out in a new form. His palace is now closed all day, and opened from sunset to sunrise. He breakfasts about dusk, dines at midnight and sups at dawn.