Haifa Century in a MADHOUSE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 170, 23 June 1883, Page 2

Haifa Century m a MADHOUSE.

Dr Rarie, m his annual report of the Dundee Royal Asylum, mentions a curious entertainment which, took place m that establishment on December 31 last. It consisted of a ball and suppjr party, "ken by ; one of the inin*tes to his fellow-patients, on the ' occasion, of the fiftieth anniversary of his admission to the asylum. The . venerable host B«ems to hive borne ths weight of years and of his mental trouble iisjhtly, for he presided; at his- jubilee with muoh bonhommie, and entered oq his second half-*- century: of luaatic asylum life with sanguine anticipations, and amidst the oordiaL cohgratulat : ons of a large circle of eacantri 5 friends. The only parallel to this singular entartainment at Dundee of which we can think is the dinner by Mr Dotrit to the collttgiaaaof the Marshalsea, vkm he ended his lons incarceration m that historic prison^ Ie is a atartliasf speculation, that this aged lunaUc of Dundea, if 'Beuc : bask to his native village, woqld bee|nal to two -and.-ta half Rip Van Winkle i. But this is not all'}" far Dr' Rorie mantiois thin the fifty years which have baeti so auspiciously cancluiad were his secoal term of restdenca m the Dan ied Asylum, and that he had once been discharged recovered after a preriong sojoam thera