<h2> <SPAN name="oldman" id="oldman"></SPAN>A FINE OLD MAN </h2>
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<p>John Wagner, the oldest man in Buffalo—one hundred and four years
old—recently walked a mile and a half in two weeks.</p>
<p>He is as cheerful and bright as any of these other old men that charge
around so persistently and tiresomely in the newspapers, and in every way
as remarkable.</p>
<p>Last November he walked five blocks in a rainstorm, without any shelter
but an umbrella, and cast his vote for Grant, remarking that he had voted
for forty-seven presidents—which was a lie.</p>
<p>His "second crop" of rich brown hair arrived from New York yesterday, and
he has a new set of teeth coming from—Philadelphia.</p>
<p>He is to be married next week to a girl one hundred and two years old, who
still takes in washing.</p>
<p>They have been engaged eighty years, but their parents persistently
refused their consent until three days ago.</p>
<p>John Wagner is two years older than the Rhode Island veteran, and yet has
never tasted a drop of liquor in his life—unless—unless you
count whisky.</p>
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