This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...the Zabala, Independencia and Constitucion. The University of Uruguay has more than 400 students and a relatively very large number of native and foreign professors; there are also normal and elementary schools, a military college, etc. Banks are: English (2), and Italian, Spanish and French (1 each). No city in South America is more cosmopolitan in character: nearly all the languages of the civilized world arc heard in its streets. The environs contain beautiful residences surrounded by gardens; at a distance of about three miles from the city is the fine park called El Prado. Marrion Wilcox. MONTEVIDEO, Department of. See Uruguay. MONTEZ, Lola (assumed name of Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert), adventuress: b. Limerick, Ireland, 1818; d. Astoria, N. Y., 17 Jan. 1861. Her parents took the child to India, where her father died, and her mother, again marrying, sent Lola back to Europe. In 1837 she married a Captain James, went to India with him, tired of him and returned to England in 1842. She next became a public dancer, performing in London and in cities of the Continent, and in 1846 went to Munich, where she fascinated the old artist-king Louis I of Bavaria who made her his mistress, created her Countess of Landsficld and granted her a large annuity. For a while she also exercised great political power, which she directed against the Jesuits and in favor of liberalism; but with the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 she was once more set adrift. In London she married a guardsman, Stafford Heald, was soon divorced from him and in 1851 sailed for the United States. After touring through this country with a play called 'Lola Montez in Bavaria,' she went to Australia, returned here, was twice married in California and in 1858 lectured in New York where sh...
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