Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-10-04
MUNICIPALITIES.

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Queen Mareherita last winter saidthat
Mrs. Astor was the most beautiful I've.
man ever presented to her F' " Z
1t is a mistake that Santa Anna Ten
Mexico poor man. He carried into
| exile m the West Indies a great fsrfune >,
spent thousands co"k-fghting and gam
bling, and left his widow rich. ! .,
A movement is now afoot TO raise by -
dime subscription throughout the coun-
try fund to add to the $500 left byMfs-
brown for monument to the memory
OF her son, "Artemus Ward"
Sir Moses Montefore will he one hunA
dred years old October 9th. 1t is. pro,
POSED to establish Montefiore profes-
sorship at the Hebrew College at Cincin-
matt IN cOmmemOration Of the event. D.
| George Augustus Sala is to visit Igsusls
tralia in January next on a leeturinc.
tour. lie will speak on life as he has
seen it, a prolific theme. After stayiu@
twelve months he will lecture. in ,san
I e rahciSco'-o i7ui e.o 10 > yL1.o sss.i,gT
| The estate of the late Nicholas.
Anchorena Of Buenos Ayrs., perhans
the richest person in the world. con-
sisted Of seventeen dretf sSi,iaf, n1;}essg
of lanG, four hundred thousand ,sheet,.sI
and a hundred and fifty thousand cows.
ltbesides houses In the city. '' - H3f1I
In middle life Mr.. Gladstone forrnu-
lated to- himself rules for chewing, food
Ihirty-two bites were to be given to-
| each mouthful Of meat, certain less num-
bers to fish, bread, etc. These rules no 2
has since closely adhered to, and Jbas "a
trained his children 10 do the, sanleRoijSs
Mr.. Gladstone has several tinss.lately' !,
shown signs ofphysical weakness. AbOut
a fortnight ago he nearly fell down in
the House of Commons, and since then. /,
he tainted in his private room after .un-
| dergolng severe oss-questioning in
the House on the Egyptian debate.
The celebrated alienist. Moreau de
Tours, who lately died in Parisats tbeage
of so, was chiefly k1iowril Hby h4HSTT2
work, entitled la Psychologist Morbide,"
the fundamental idea of which is con-
tained in the celebrstedparadox, whicn
! gave great ofiense at the time, that "ge-
MUS is a nervous disease"r YGHT
More gorgeous dresses are worn by
| Mrs.William Cook, of Philadelphia, at
Saratoga, than by any other visitor. Al
though she has not walked for three
years, and is wheeled ABOUT in an in
valid chair by her maid, she carriedslat
a recent ball huge fan of twenty white
ostrich feathers. nearly hall yard; ,lopg
set in big sticks of solid amber.
Prince Bismarck, it is said. tlistrasts
an Englishman who speaks French per-,
fectly. This is from no contempt fofs
lingui tic attaiDnlents, forthe chancellor.
albeit no man of books, is one OF the.
best of linguists. But he evidently Holds
that an Englishman very familiar with
France and the French is an English
man spoiled. This is rather untiatter,,
ing to the French. Z,
The husband ofthe Baroness sBbsdett-
Coutts is about thirty three, fine and,
manly looking, while she is small,
round-shouldered, and past sixty, She
is but one of the many jisiinguisAedwo
men who have married men itmuchi
| younger than themselves; among them
Miss Thackeray, Miss Mnlock. Rose
Terry, Grace Greenwood, George Eliot,
and Madame de Stael. ''.i - ''''-'l
Muley Hassan, Emperor, of MOROCCO,
is young and handsome man of good
bearIng and imposing manners. He Is
unable to speak any language besides
| hIs own Makhreby or Western Arabic.
but knows how to read, and is the. only
subs criber to newspaper in the empire.
| The fortunate sheet is a small weekly
| Arabia journal, printed in Algiers and
sent 10 him r,ghlarly by a messengeriEq