Don't get me wrong. I believe in the walking fish of Java. Its more formal name is the mudskipper or walking catfish and its Linnean name is Clarias batrachus. But I don't believe that a Japanese politician lived to be 300, even if he appeared on the one-yen note.
The rest of the oddities are more standard, encompassing the largest typewriter and rubber tree, as well as some topiary and a fellow tearing a deck of cards into eighths. Also odd is Ripley's delivery, which is pitched to carry in a large room, despite the other people who appear speaking in more normal tones.
Ripley's newspaper series is still running, although he is no longer in charge, having died many years ago. Were he still producing it, that would make him the world's oldest newspaper cartoonist, and a fit subject for consideration.
The rest of the oddities are more standard, encompassing the largest typewriter and rubber tree, as well as some topiary and a fellow tearing a deck of cards into eighths. Also odd is Ripley's delivery, which is pitched to carry in a large room, despite the other people who appear speaking in more normal tones.
Ripley's newspaper series is still running, although he is no longer in charge, having died many years ago. Were he still producing it, that would make him the world's oldest newspaper cartoonist, and a fit subject for consideration.