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Close behind M. Doumergue's, moved two other pairs of distinguished pedal extremities, conveying, respectively, the stoop-shouldered little figure of Edward, Prince of Wales, and the swaying rotund bulk of Ahmed Mirza, recently deposed Shah of Persia. Came other European princes, potentates, diplomats. Came scores of officials, bedight with badges...
Young Ahmad Mirza, 26-year-old Shah of Persia, loved pleasure and gambled too much on the Riviera (TIME, March 10). His 36 ministers last week deposed him. His young brother, the Crown Prince, aged 25, fled the capital. His baby son, aged 2, was named Shah. Thereupon much monstrous agitation for the creation of a republic collapsed. The 36 ministers will enjoy the pleasures of regency for 19 years...
...Mirza Ali Mahamad began preaching in southern Persia at the age of 19, on May 23, 1844. He prophesied the coming of the Great Teacher. He was condemned and shot to death in 1850. Of his followers, 20,000 were killed by the Sultan...
...reading, to be given in Sever 11 at 8 o'clock this evening, will be mainly chosen from "Queen Anne's Men." It will include an extract from "The Rape of the Lock," and one from Pope's "Iliad"; Addison's "The Citizen's Journal," and "The Vision of Mirza"; Swift's account of the Struldbrugs, from "Gulliver's Travels"; Gay's fable, "The Hare and Many Friends"; and, a letter of Lady Mary...
...Mirza (a mirzinary wretch, and prototype of the Echo).............J. C. Ford...