Punch,  30 (1856), 120.

Extraordinary Longevity

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Expertise


    Reports that 'no less an authority than George P Bidder' (the 'calculating phenomenon') was hired to establish the astonishing age of a piece of soap in the Old Commercial Inn.



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