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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 187, 8 August 1881, Page 4

Emperor William, on his 70th birthday, told his physician he would make him a Count if he brought him to his 80th. He kept his promise, and now promises to make him a Prince if he brings him to his 90th birthday. It is pleasant to see ourselves (says a home payer) as others see us ; and English restheticism.from an American point of view, can scarcely fail to assume an original appearance. The " New York Commerical Advertiser" thus unburdens its feelings on the subject: — " London is afflicted with a lot of assthetically diseased males and female idiots, who go dawdling, and mouthing, and dreaming, and dressing themselves up as guys of centuries departed. The women are called "mopheads," because they hang their hair all to thunder over their eyes, and get themselves up as medireval Ladies of Shallot. No wonder England is going to the dogs. " The death is announced, in his 62nd year, of Mr Jos. Bravo, of Palace-green, Kensington, and of Seville, St. Anne's Bay, Jamaica. He was the father of j the late Mr Charles Delancey Turner Bravo, barrister-at-law, whose death by poison a few years ago formed the subject of a protracted coroner's inquiry in South London, and which created so much sensation at the time as " the Balham Mystery. " Tnere rcß.dei in this parish, about seven miles from Natcbiiocbes, an old negro earned Friday Atkins. He olat'ma that he was bora in 1747, in the Sia-e of North Carolina, thus rr iking hie »ge 134 yoars. He lived in North Carolina twenty-three years. He wsa then carried to Alabama, where he resided six ly-seven years. Prom Aalbama be was taken to Da Soto Parish, La., living there twenty-foar years. He was thea moved into this parish, where |he baa resided for the past twenty years. He is cot at all feeble, but makes his own living cow. Last year he* raised two bales of cotton, weighing 5001 b escb, and nearly enough corn fco supply bis wanle. He complains that his eyesight is failing him, tut says last year he shot blue birds oat of the war tins' nes'.a, seldom caieeing them, but he cannot do it now. A number of persons know Friday Aikins, aaJ can testify to hie beiag a very old maa. Probably be is the oldest person living in this fctite, and is undoubteily a r*mßrkable instance of longevity in thiß rapid age of fast living and short esißtenoe.f-Aajerioftn pager.