Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1870 — How an Old Negro Calculated His Age. [ARTICLE]

How an Old Negro Calculated His Age.

The Petersburg (Va.) papers relate the following registration incident in that city: . An aged colored man came up to his voting place upon crotches, seemingly with great difficulty. The prescribed

formula, “ How old are you?” was naked, when the old man was thrown into much perplexity. Recovering himself, however, he muttered in ap undertone, which was overheard: '' “ Well, how ole is my die IhiUisar /• It so happened that a gentleman was Standing by, well acquainted with him, who promptly answered: “Your old master Is about flfty-flve years of age.” * “ Well, how ole Is missus?” “She is about forty-five years old.” "An’ Miss Sallle ?" • "Thirty-five, perhaps, next fall.” “An’young missus*" « Nineteen this coming August." 1 “ Well, I’se older den all put together; for I knows when dey all was born." It is needless to say that the old man was passed amid the good feelings of all present.