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Colonist, Volume XXVII, Issue 3777, 28 November 1883, Page 3

. ..pBNXEiTAEii.NS.^T-TThe '^.JLancet':' ap?ri pears to believe .that a-case of ttiapre*! cedented old age capabljß of verifieatiou hadi afc lasfc beea: jdisooveredi rjAfcpFesent the highest age known capable hf proof ia 106, at which Lady Smith I died a few years1 since. It is a£Srniedy however, that at JAuberine cn JEoyans, a village near Grenoble, an old W??1^ is liv'inff" whb ia " authentically" fenow^ to be 123, atid who is prorM by;cer-«: tificate to have been married 99* years' ago last January.'She had a son'killed; at the battle of Friediand,' in 18Q7J who mußt, therefore^ hav<i been borq» at the very leaßt,r rjitiety' ftb*re9! yeaifi ago. The local dbctoi1, iDr Bonne| believes iv' her; btit she is \ practicallf Bupported by popular curioHty^aboue her ;age,"'»nd;'has, :theiief6re, tempfcatibh H. 6 exaggerate; ' sfi^ has her certificate^ which' doidld übt have been forged, theireal question » one of identity. fi ißishe the persotf'to whom the cartificates given, or the daughter, or a niuch younger sister? Ifc is"astbundirifif, ijn'isaßeaiJof extreme age, when three generations of cont'emporarieß haye passed awrayj, how inexact local eyi.dence|bec6]mes^ • No family should be'without'iiiV tne'-moi't careful and abstemious will now and then hare a twinge of stomaohio pain | no remedy » more reliable, none more^ infallible ,thao Wolfe's Sohnappi.—idrt.' ~' „ ,