BRIDEGROOM OF 140

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11045, 31 October 1921, Page 5

BRIDEGROOM OF 140

CHECKS A BRAT OF NINETY-TWO. MR JENNINGS FINDS SOME OLD FOLKS. “You often hear about the end of the day of the-old men,” said Mr W. T. Jennings, M.P., on his return to the Dominion, “but I came across some remarkable instances of vitality in some old 'uns during my trip round the world. In Constantinople I was taken to see an old fellow called Zaro, who is reported to he 140 years of age. The other day the cablegrams said he had just been married for the fourth time, and I disbelieved it, but General Harrington and others assured me it was a fact and took me to see the patriarch. Whatever doubt there may be about him being 140, he is a very old man, much over the century. They told me that a week before the marriage Zaro had a row with one of his children—a lad of 92 years of age—and kicked the young fellow out of the home. An enterprising firm of New York show people has Dee n trying to get him to come over for exhibition purposes, but so far without result. “Another instance of longevity I came across was at Winnipeg, where I MW photographs of a Moose Jaw Indian, who was reported to be 135 years of age. He certainly looked it from tbe jphoto graphs. “The third case was that of Dr Stephen Smith, of New York, who is 100 years of age. He says that, at sixty years of age, he found he was passing awaj, and resolved to diet himself. He quaintly said it was a case of diet or die. At present he is very much alive, and is to open the Public Health Association’s meeting in New York on November 15th next.”