n. His
great-grandson was said to have died in this century in Cork at the age
of one hundred and three. Parr is celebrated by a monument reared to
his memory in Westminster Abbey.

The author of the Dutch dictionary entitled "Het algemen historish
Vanderbok" says that there was a peasant in Hungary named Jean Korin
who was one hundred and seventy-two and his wife was one hundred and
sixty-four; they had lived together one hundred and forty-eight years,
and had a son at the time of their death who was one hundred and
sixteen.

Setrasch Czarten, or, as he is called by Baily, Petratsh Zartan, was
also born in Hungary at a village four miles from Teneswaer in 1537. He
lived for one hundred and eighty years in one village and died at the
age of one hundred and eighty-seven, or, as another authority has it,
one hundred and eighty-five. A few days before his death he had walked
a mile to wait at the post-office for the arrival of travelers and to
ask for succor, which, on account of his remarkable age, was rarely
refused him. He had lost nearly all his teeth and his beard and hair
were white. He was accustomed to eat a little cake the Hungarians call
kalatschen, with which he drank milk. After each repast he took a glass
of eau-de-vie. His son was living at ninety-seven and his descendants
to the fifth generation embellished his old age. Shortly before his
death Count Wallis had his portrait painted. Comparing his age with
that of others, we find that he was five years older than the Patriarch
Isaac, ten more than Abraham, thirty-seven more than Nahor, sixteen
more than Henry Jenkins, and thirty-three more than "old Parr."

Sundry Instances of Great Age.--In a churchyard near Cardiff,
Glamorganshire, is the following inscription: "Here lieth the body of
William Edwards, of Cacreg, who departed this life 24th February, Anno
Domini 1668, anno aetatis suae one hundred and sixty-eight."

Jonas Warren of Balydole died in 1787 aged one hundred and sixty-seven.
He was called the "father of the fishermen" in his vicinity, as he had
followed the trade for ninety-five years.

The Journal de Madrid, 1775, contains the account of a South American
negress living in Spanish possessions who was one hundred and
seventy-four years of age. The description is written by a witness, who
declares that she told of events which confirmed her age. This is
possibly the oft-quoted case that was described in the London
Chronicle, October 5, 1780