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THE JAINA GAZETTE
'The rainbow appeared at 4 a. m. and lasted 10 minutes.' It had been raining hard during the night and chere was a light drizzle while the phenomenon existed.
A bright moon was shining at the time and there was one huge arch of colour resembling a rainbow but with a whitish hue. A reflection of the rainbow could also be seen.'
This was an unusual spectacle, but unusual only because it was the light of the moon which was refracted into the component parts instead of that of the sun, Got a son at 95.
R. Hughes, of New Bern. North Caroline, America is now 95. His wife is 27, Their son was born on December 23, 1934. His first wife bore him 16 children. Mr. Hughes walks without a cane, works in his garden and does odd jobs about the house. He has no need for glasses. His grandfather lived to bed 15,— Reuter. Young at 60.
"At the age of sixty years, a man should be regarded as being in his full bloom and not as an old man, but in this land we become decrepits at a very early age and rejoice at the attainment of fifty years," declares Gandhiji in the course of a message on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee celebration of Lady Vidyagauri, a public worker of Ahemdabad. 164 Years of age.
Mohammed Akher-ud. Din Sarkar, an inhabitant of village Washin, P. S. Tarash, (Pabna), is an old man of 163 years. He is now living on milk and plantain. He has sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons. He can freely converse and talk about the affairs of the East India Com. pany.—Amrita Bazar Patrika.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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