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...paradise but a woman's world, "governed with the utmost deliberation and care, not by a man at all, but by a woman." That was the Sultan Valide, the Sultan's mother. No. 2 was neither man nor woman, but the Kislar Agha, the Chief Black Eunuch, "the most feared, and consequently the most bribed, official in the whole of the Ottoman Empire...
Died. Zaro Agha. circa 160. a Turk believed to be the oldest man in the world; of uremia; in Istanbul. Doctors who examined Zaro Agha thought his abnormal pituitary gland responsible for his longevity, never wholly subscribed to his statement that he was born two years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence...
...devout, erudite, horse-loving Marquess of Zetland, was less profound than it sounded. All it meant was that Colombo, Lord Glanely's unbeaten favorite, was named after the capital of Ceylon and that the two second choices were the Maharajah of Rajpipla's Windsor Lad and the Agha Khan's Umidwar. The man who had more real interest in the race than anyone else in the world thought so little of the Marquess's tip that he did exactly the opposite...
...read in TIME, June 12, under Miscellany and "Slapper" what struck me as a funny story. I translated it to my parents and a few relatives. They did not find it funny. Finally my uncle said that he knew of a similar story so I listened carefully: "Ahmet Agha was slapped by a friend and instead of retaliating he appealed to the village judge. After a weighty consideration the judge ordered the guilty party to pay a fine (considerably less than $5) to his friend. Ahmet Agha received the money from his friend, doubled it, placed it on the judge...
Died. Mostofi el Mamalek, thrice Premier of Persia; in Teheran, Persia. He was the only Persian given the title of Agha (Dignity or Lord) by the Shahs...