Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-24
FOREIGN a0sSiP.

Queen Victoria has twenty-five
grandchildren.
-Baron Nordenskjold will start this
spring On d new Arctic exposition up
the eastern coast of Greenland, e direc-
lion in which few attempts have hither-
TO been made.
in London, Mrs. Murphy, drunken
lv engaged i'm household pursuits. fell,
and her head striking in tin sauce
pan, Just filled the utensil and fitted SO
closely that she could not remove 1T +;
and she died of suffocation.
The recent death of Matilda Diez,
the greatest actress Spain ever pro-
duced, caused general mourning in that
country, her funeral in Madrid being
one of great public demonstration. She
was born in 1918, and was known as the
Rachel of Spain.
When DR.. Wecker, the celebrated
German oculist, removed Gambetta' s
right eve in 1867, the organ was pre-
served in spirits. sit is the eye," the
surgeon said, s'of = man who is sure to
enact an important part in the worlds
history" He was right, and the eye is
!, still preserved.
DR.. Ball, in a lecture before the
Paris Faculty of Medicine, said "there
: IS a broad frontier between folly and
reason, between sanity and insanity,
peopled by millions of inhabitants. He
held that the number of persons per-
fectly reasonable on all points through
out the entire period of their existence
formed but minority of mankind.
4 in the southern portion of the coun-
try drained by the River Congo, in
Africa, there has been found by Lieu
tenant Wissman very dense popula-
ton. During his journey from Loanda
to Zanzibar this traveller does not seem
to have met with any serious obstacles.
On the contrary, the noted Mirambo
gave him every assistance. At one por-
ton of his route he found a tribe Of
. dwarf negroes.
A church in the village Of Cesano,
near Albenga, Italy, was robbed. The
authorities searched. the stable of sus-
pected man. They found subter-
ranean apartment. The entrance was
hidden by straw. A poor woman, thirty
years old, entirely nude, was the only
occupant. She had been there thirteen
years, fed on swil and acorns. Her
{ reason was gone, and she was speech
: less. She was removed to an hospital,
and her father was placed under arrest.
! The physicians in one of the hospit-
Z ais. Of Vienna have made.the remarka-
BILE discovery, in dissecting the body of
patient, that he had carried about in
his brain an iron nail covered with rust.
that to all appearances must have held
its singular lodgment since early child
hood. The man was forty-five years of
age, bookbinder, and always passed
for a thoroughly intelligent person. The
nail in his brain did not seem to effect
his mental powers in any particular.
There is probably no case on record to
parallel this.
When Wagner first went to Paris,
Z in.1S40, the celebrated musician Liszt
was, the idol Of the public, the pet of
society, shining in the meridian splen-
dor of his unexampled career. 1t is not
surprising that Wagner, looking up to
him from the abasement of poverty,
should have turned bitter and resent
full, and fancied that List disliked him,
when Liszt was only unaware of his ex-
istence. Afterward Wagner learned
how completely he had misunderstood
the great and generous artist, and a
friendship grew up between them which
was never broken. Twenty years later
Wagner married Liszt's daughter.