MODERN METHUSELAH.
INDIAN 160 YEARS OLD,
A census of India bus revealed a man who claims to he 160 years old, which means that lie was well on the way to his majority iielore there was any settlement in Australia or New Zealand. The Indian Mutiny was in 1857, and this modern Methuselah remembers it as occurring in his late middle age.
His second full-grown set of teeth have been worn down to their sockets with chewing, but he still enjoys enormous meals. He declares he was horn when Warren Hastings was ruling British India in 1772.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 10, 9 December 1932, Page 4
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