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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, 1 JUNE 30, 1888.
EOROPEANDYNASTIES.
Imperialism and Royalty in
Babyhood.
Emperors and Kings as Boys-Em-
presses and Queens as Girls How
Europe’s Future Eulers Look
To Day, and what They Do.
[Special Correspondence Sunxt South.]
“Kings are made for nations,” says Carmen
Sylva, the poet-qieen of Roumania. True they
have a great deal to say in shaping the history
of the worid. Consequently it is of interest
to Bee how they, or some of them, are them
selves shaped before they come into their high
positions. It is not altogether a happy lot into
which they are born. Some are launched into
a life of sorrow, like the rest of mortais. The
Czar of Russia wae happier before he
became a wearer of a crown. King Ludwig
of Bavaria was born with the highest dreams
for benefiting his subjects, only to find him
self at last compelled to end his troubles in the
waters of Lake Starnberg. His brother, King
Otto, was a bright, studious boy, and now he
sits in his castle prison of Nymphenbnrg, an
abject imbecile, and peels potatoes or shoots at
peasants with an unloaded gun for his royal
amusement. Princesses arrive frequently at a
similar fate. The Empress Charlotte is still
lamenting the loss of an imperial crown. The
Empress Eugene has seen all her hopes en
tombed in the fair county of Kent. The Queen
of Sweden has just been declared insane.
Queen Elizibeth, of Roumania, lives a life of
gardener. Bavaria has also a duke-doctor
who has a splendid reputation In his profes
sion. Many princes and princesses, however,
go into literature, and crowd an already
crowded profession. Many of the Austrian
archdukes are famous as scientists and scien
tific writers; and the Crown Prince himself is
writing agrpat book on the Austro-Hungarian
Empire. The Archduchess Valerie writes
charming verso; the King of Sweden has trang
lated Shakspeare. Princess Beatrice of Eng
land recently illustrated a charmiDg Christmas
book. The King of Portugal is a famous
writer, and the Queen of Roumania has writ
ten stories for children and several volumes
of poems. In fact the list might be extended
indefinitely. One of the re cent literary pro
ductions of Europe. “My Journey to Buiga
ria,” by Countess Maria zu Erbach-Schwen-
berg, a sister of Prince Alexander of Eulgaria,
was set up in type and printed by Prince Lud
Tin; LATE KMI'EKOK WILLIAM I. OF GERMANY AS
A BOV, !l YE A US OF AGE.
sorrow that she has not been able to fulfill the
mission of queens, in presenting an heir to the
throne. The divinity that is supposed to hedge
in royalty, has not prevented physical wreck
from entering the palaces of rulers.
Not all princes and princesses grew np to be
models of humanity. Castollar once sent an
agent to the Vatican about some church busi
ness, to Pius IX. “Why is it you are so hard
on poor Isabella?’’ he asked. Her hereditary
weaknesses were given as a reason. And then
the Pontiff gave au interesting sketch of roy
alty as he knew it. “I ask you, is there in all
Europe a monarch who has a right to cast the,
smallest pebble at her? The Queen of England
is a being apart. .Pass in review the lives of
her brother monarchs who have been her con
temporaries. There’s Napoleon HI. But per
haps, its he was an upstart, we had better
leave his failings entirely to God. But does
she not compare favorably with that ice-hearted
refrigerator, Leopold I., and with other mem
bers of his family? If we go on to Holland,
what do we lind there? A beautiful, witty
and meritorious queen unequally mated with
an incarnation of the worst deadly sins. The
German Emperor is a sinner, though not the
worst. I shan’t do more than touch on the
grievances of the Empress of Austria. Char
lotte, her sister-in-law, was a very unhappy
woman, through the fault of Maximilian.
Then the King of Wurtemburg. What exten
uating circumstances can bo pleaded in his
favor? Did you ever see his wife? She was
a miracle of beauty. And as for my enemy,
Victor Emanuel, Christian charity will not
allow mo to say that he ought to be the Sultan
of Turkey instead of the King of Italy.”
Some of those whose pictures are given in
this article may have eventually to be classed
in the same category. Some of them would,
judged by their past lives, certainly belong
there. But it must be said that as a rule, royal
princes and princesses are brought up as well
as the rest of high stationed humanity, and
many do credit to themselves and to the world.
The Christain and Monarchical world counts
among its combined reigning families about
eight hundred princes and princesses, and of
EMPEROK ALEXANDER III. AS A BOY, 11 OF AGE
(present ruler of Russia).
wig of Battenberg and his wife, the oldest
daughter of the Duke of Hesse. The Prince
has a small but very complete printing estab
lishment in his palace and the book above men
tioned is said to he typographically beautifully
done. Some of them therefore make some re
turn for the sixty millions of dollars, which is
Europe’s annual budget for royalty and impe
rially.
It is interesting to look over a photograph
album and knowing the men and women as
they have grown up to be, see them as they
were in childhood. Some of the portraits of
the princess furnished by M. de Grimm for
this article have a similar interest. First of
a 1 there is that of the Prince Imperial of
France as a boy of three, dressed in the uni
form of Napoleon the First’s old guard. Some
months ago the last act in the dramatic histo
ry of the Bonapartes was performed by the re
moval of tha remains of Napoleon Iiland of
his only son and heir from the little gray church
at Chislehurst, in Kent, to their final resting
place at Fainborough. There in their coffins,
in which rest wreathes from the Widowed Em-
presp, are the simple inscriptions;
NAPOLEON Ilf.
Louis Eugene Napoleon, Prince Imperial,
Ne a Paris le 10 Mars. 1850
Mart en So'.aat a Itabtiozi, Afrique le 1 er Juin
1870.
R. T. P.
What bright prospects were before the young
boy when he was photographed in the sol-
( W. I
EMPRESS DAGMAR OF RUSSIA.
feminine material of Europe. The latest sta
tistics, however, say that there are at the pres
ent time eight German princesses ready for en
gagements, three daughters of the Emperor
of Germany and five descended from the
house of Witlesbach.
It is also interesting to note, from the same sta
tistical authority that providence has taken care
to provide the same number of German prin
ces, heirs to thrones, some of whom are likely
to make their choice at these two courts. The
oldest of these is Prince Leopold of Schaum-
bnrg-Sondershausen,(who is 55). The youngest
Prince Rupert of Bavaria, aged eighteen. Be
sides these there are Prince Gnnther of
Schwarzburg-Recdoisladt, Prince William of
Nassau, the future Grand Duke of Luxemburg,
both aged thirty-five. Hereditary Prince Fred
erick of Aubalt, the Hereditary Prince Freder
ick Aupert of Saxony, aged 22, and the Hered
itary Grard Duke Erast Ludwig of Hesse,
aged 19. And some European princes, when
they get married, live long. On September 9,
Duke Max of Bavaria will celebrate his golden
wedding.
It is interesting to compare the picture of
the late Emperor William as a boy of nine with
that of his great grandson, Prince Wilhelm, the
son of the Emperor William, the fourth in
the line of succession to the German Impe
rial throne. He looks an enterprising boy
dressed in his regimentals and will doubtless
some day be a splendid specimen of the race of
the IIoheEzollerns.
Should he not be called to rulership, he will
be successful to form matrimonial alliances, a
possible one cf which would be with the little
Princess Wilhelmins, of Holland, now in her
eighth year:
Prince Bismarck has long had his weather
eye open about the question of the future of
Holland, where in the event of the King’s
death, the Salic law not being in force, interna
tional complications about the future of the
He is bathed, dressed and put to bed by dif
ferent ladies under the superintendesce of Le-
nora de Zacon. Twice a day he is visited by
the doctors of the Royal Faculty of Madrid
and the Queen’s private physician, Dr. Riebel
and theMonteros of Spain have still their tra
ditional effice of guarding the little king’s
slumbers in an adjoining chamber. On fine
days he is driven out in a close landau on the
knees of his nurse Raymandaand accompanied
by the ever watching governess; but on state
occasions the privilege of carrying his majesty
and is descended from a ruling race. The dler prince, to take part in his musical recrea-
Russians forced him to forego his rights as an tions, but he will undouotedly do so when
antonomons hereditary prince, which was re- Lord Randolph Churchill has brought abont
cognized by the treaty of annexation of hia permanent friendship between the Britons and
native country to Russia in 1803, and which bis the Muscovites. The Czarevna, too, is, like
father enjoyed np to the reign of Alexander II. her husband, very fond of music, and enjoys
He once issued a protest against Ruesia’s ob- nothing better when m Denmark, than playing
literation of his Asiatic principality, as a mat- the piano four-handed with her sister, the
ter of form, and showed a certain amount of Princess of Wales. The imperial couple have
moral courage in risking his personal liberty five children. The Grand Duke Nicholas, the
in view of the example before him of bis rela- heir to the throne, was born m 1808; Grand
tive, the Prince of Ahkhasia, George Schawa- Duke George,__in 1871; the Grand Duchess
chidze, who was sent into exile for presuming Zenia, in 1875; the Grand Duke Michael, in
to assert the rights of the Abkhasian people. 1878; and the Grand Duchess O ga, in 18n_.
But he is now a faithful servant prince of The hereditary prince is nineteen years old,
the Czar,-and the Czar knows how to reward hetman or chief of all the Cossack troops. He
as well as to permit those who thus ask him, is represented in our picture in the officer’s
and if his imperial majesty’s mother-in law, the uniform of the Cossacks of the guard. He is of
Queen of Denmark, does not cause him to put a quiet, studious temperament and of affable
forward her youngest son Prince Waldemar, manners, but has a will of his own.
this young Nicholas Dadiani may yet have to | A pretty group is that formed by the Czar-
be counted among European rulers.
GRAND DUKE ALEXIS OF RUSSIA AS A ROY.
dier’s uniform in which the picture presents
him; his father, the ruler of France and the
d etator of Europe, his mother the leader of
the gaieties of the Tuileries. Later in 1870,
the little Luln, behind the fearful mitrailleuse
on the heights Of Saarbrucker, and made his
father proud by turning the crank that poured
death and destruction upon the hosts of the
advancing Germans. It was a short lived tri
umph for Napoleon the Little, who was cap
tured at Sedan and ended his life in exile in
Bngland, leaving the legacy of his rule and his
family ambition to the Prince. And then the
boy, grown np to be a handsome youth, about
whom Napoleon istic hopes were beginning to
cluster thiok and fast, was slain by the assa-
gaies of the Zulus, and France was relieved of
at less: one disturbing element in the future.
Youthful recklessness caused a vast change in
the history of the world's events. Accustomed
to vaulting on the back of his horse without
the aid of stiriups, he tried to do so in the face
of danger, the horse proved restive, the girth
of the saddle gave way, and he remained a
victim to Zulu vengeance. From all that is
left of the Imperial family the widowei Em
press. ‘Quelle finaltl” Qnelle finale! ex-
* claimed an old Frenchman duting the ceremo
nies at Farnborough.
Imagine if we can, the Prince of Wilss as a
boy, and now as a man, the genial heir expect
ant of a throne, the first gentleman and sport
ing man of England, the admirer of American
beauty and the great John L. The picture
dates from the ytar 1840, and the Prince is in
terested in watching a performance at Ast- j
ley’s theatre. He was then called “Barrie" or
“Baby” and was live years old when ho was
taken by his parents with his sister, now the
Dowager Empress of Germany, to witness the
glories of an equestrian performance, includ
ing the spotted steeds, Beauty and Selim, a
gratd tableau from the “R; jah of Nagpcre’’
and tie tricks of the elephants. Since then
the Prince ha3 seen the elephant in all his
forms, but now, after having caused infinite
pain and sorrow to one of the most beautiful of
European princesses, has settled down to be a
model husband. This is the way with prin
ces, as well as peasants and even republicans,
only the world is quicker to forget the early
irregularities of a scion of royalty than of an
ordinary human being. The l’rmce of Wales
is now forty-seven, and in a few weeks will
have the pleasure of seeing his second daugh
ter, the Princess Victoria married to the
Crown Prince of Greece, Prince Constantine,
the Duke of Spans. whose pictures are given
beneath. To Englishmen it must be a pleas
ure to see a royal princess marrying outside
of German and Danish families, who have
1'l.lXCE EITEL WILLIAM, SON OF THE PRESENT
CROWS l'EINCE OF GERMANY.
course in so large a number there are many
black sheep. Among these (the families, not
the black sheep), the most flourishing dynasty
is that of Holstein, which holds the thrones of
Russia, Denmark, Greece and Oldenburg, and
numbers fifty-three princes, including twenty-
five grand-duker. two kings and an emperor.
The house of Stettin unites the royal crowns
of Saxony, England, Portugal and Belgium,
besides some ducal and grand-ducal sceptres.
Tee Bourbons, with forty-seven princes, have
held Sicilv, l’.trms, and Spain. M re numer
ous than the lIoheLzollerus, the Hesses, and
the bouse cf Savoy, are the imperial Hapshurg-
Lorraiue. with their thirty-three archdukes,
and the old race of Wittelshach, numbering
twenty-three princes of or in Bavaria.
Of onC e reigning fami ies mediatized
since 1810, thtre are 724 princes, for royalty is
not always a permanency. Rulership can be
as once Bismarck said to Prince Alexander of
Bulgaria, a very beautiiul memory. Some of
the princes are in early life taught to ,earn
trades, so that if the worst should happen,
they mav always be sure of earning an honest
livelihood. AU the boys of the Emperor o
Germany are skilled mechanics. Tne Present
liegent of Bavaria decided to have each of h^s
sons taiieht a trade. Prince Ruprech% t'e
future K'tig of Bavaria, served an apprentice-
ship in the turnery workshop of Joseph tu-
dres, cf Munich. Prince Frarz, of Bavaria,
is qualifying to earn a living as house painter, - .
ana irs youngest brother is learning to be a | hitherto furnished much of the marriageable
THE I-BSENT CZAREVITCH OF RUSSIA AS A YOUTH.
kingdom of canals would be likeiy to arise.
But these complications need not trouble the
genei al newspaper reader at present. Another
yonng possible suitor might be the handsome
little son of the Crown Prince of Sweden, Prince
Gustave Adolphe, bom in 1882, but Prince
Bismarck would, if he lives as long, most cer
tainly ol ject, and he is building the great Bal-
canal for the purpose of having the German
fleet on hand in case d,fficulties with Holland
should arise.
Probably no little prince of Europe has been
the subject of so much newspaper notoriety as
the little Alfonso XIII of Spain, who came to
displace the little Princess of Asturia, Maria
dela Mercedes on May 17, 1880, and was pro
claimed Kirg the self-same day. What a dis
appointment he caused. Zorilia, the Spanish
revolutionist, and the Carlists at one time as
serted that an Austrian boy had been substi
tuted for a daughter. The latter had already
arranged that the Infanta Mercedes, who, in
the event of no boy heir appearing, would have
been Queen, should be married to Dan Jaime,
the sou of Don Carlos, so as to make the recon
ciliation between the Carlists and the Mon
archists possible. But the little king thwarted
the Carlists’ calculations, and increased the
Spanish royal family to three—Dona Maria
Theresa having been bom in 1882. Both the
Pope and Emperor of Austria had strongly
urged Don Carlos to settle his dispute with the
Isabellaist branch by the proposed union. Don
Carlos has yet hopes in the future, for like all
Spaniards he has a superstitions belief in con
nection with number 13—which number the
young king wears on his title—though modern
chroniclers do not say whether he, Don Carlos,
has a dread of Alfonso XIH bringing woe to
bis own hopes or the race of the Isabellaists.
The number XIII has not so far proved an in-
evna and her two youngest children, the Grand
Duke Michael and the Grand Duchees Olga.
They are yet too yonng to have a history.
The Czarevna herself, is a most charming and
loveable woman, and almost idolized in Rus
sia, where she is the acknowledged protectress
of all who have wrongs which they are desir
ous of bringing to the notice of the Czar. Her
married life has been a happy one, in spite of
the fact that neither she nor her husband had
any special liking for one another, when the
Czarevitch Wladimir died and left to his broth
er the legacy of his love. Their family is
healthy. They do not seem to have inherited
the hereditary insanity which English author
ities say belong to the Romanoffs. All the
sons of Czsr Paul I., like that unhappv mon
arch himself, who was murdered in 1801, be
came subjects to fits of insanity. Paul I. had
four sons—Czar Alexander I., the Grand Duke
Constantine, Czar Nicholas I., and the Grand
Duke Michael. Every one of them, after his
forty-fifth year, exhibited undoubted signs of
mental derangement. This was not fully dis
covered in the case of Nicholas I., until after
the Czar’s death. An English physician, says
Ccuut Vilzthum, of Eckstadt, in his Memoirs,
noticed the appearance of the hereditary dis
ease in the Czar as early as July, 1853, and he
then predicted that the monarch had not more
than two years of life before him. This he
stated in a letter to Lord Palmerston. The
Emperor Nicholas died in March 1855, about
four months earlier than the date predicted.
prince ijiferial Louis nafoleon oe France. I The Count appears to have no doubt that the
. . Crimean war, so far as it depended on Nicholas,
Still more interesting perhaps is the por- wa8 th ’ h t o{ a ru ^ « whoa0 men tai
ait ( P t r “ e °t mi C h Z "H t I equipo^e was disturbed.” But physicians
was aboy oi ten, and had no hope of becoming Eon . English would not agree with this assertion.
£ zar ° f w , e u h t d u all °i de i r The insanity should rather be looked for in
brother, Whadim.r, the Czarevi ch, who event the ru i era 0 j t jj 6 Allies who went into the Cri-
w?. !ut S “ ar mean war with the foolish notion of arresting
of Denmark, and died leaving her to the care progress of events of Southeastern Europe.
Alexander III has never been credited with
are becoming supreme in the musical world
great intellectual gifts, but.he> is said to be at wheQ we t0 their pro ductions-know
heart good natuied and kindly and the oc- ttlat jjj ere mu8 t be a future for the Muscovite
cupant of a high position which he would wil- 1
liDgly have escaped. As a youth he was much i , = - , a daf ar ,
averse to study, and his father did not press f Itis t ru0 that t f he Romanoffs’ have produced
it on him, believing a vigorous constitution to gome s t raD g e specimens of princely humanity.
be ° f ? h ° £3. er f d L U0I1; ,5 Ut Among them was the Grand Duke lonstantinS,
when the unexpected death of his older the co | sin o{ the pre8ent and nephew o{ tb e
brother made it probable that he would some ] t Emperor. His father was, at the time
day bear the sceptre, he took pams to fit him- | when the P poltrait herew ith given was made,
self for his new prospects. He has grown up
to be much of a man, and though we got ugly
glimpses of him from Nihilistic sources, he is
by no means the tyrant that he has been de
scribed, though he is Russian to the backbone,
Grand Admiral of Russia. He became known
to the world by stealing his mother’s jewels
for the purpose of giving them to one of our
own fair but frail countrywomen, Fanny Lear.
For this crime he was sent by the emperor
and of necessity the bearer of Russian Impe- rnto semi-exTe. depi^ed of hls title, and or
an ox, as k raler stnb“om as “a bit m I dered t0 take U P his residen . oe in Central 4 aia ’
GRAND-DUKE NICOLAS OF RUSSIA, COUSIN OF
THE PRESENT EMPEROR—(SON OF CONSTAN
TINE) TIIE DIAMOND TU1EF.
belongs either to the Infanta Isabella or to the
Duchess of Medina, the Camasera Major of
the court.
The Queen is the oathed guardian of thu lit
tle boy. In the Hall of the Congress, Canovas
del Castillo, approached the foot of the throne
and said: ‘ Senora, will it please your majesty
to reiterate before the Cortes the oath, which
before the Council of Ministers yon have
already made, in accordance with article 98 ol
the Constitution.” Queen Christiana, rising,
placed her right hand on and said:
*Vgw e ar by God and thettoly Gospels to be
faithful to the Heir to the crown daring Us or
h^r minority, and to guard the laws, so God
help and defend me, and if I fail may He pan-
isn ms!” This ceremony took place oh the
ninth of May, 1886. The takiDg care ol the
boy-king is now the life work ol Queen Re
gent Christina. Throughout the palace the
baby Alfonso is always called “The King,’’
hut by his mother simply “the child.” He is
above all her child, the last living token ol
affection ot her huiband, bnt especially the
supreme heritage intrusted by him to her care.
A correspondent writing from Madrid says:
“In Queon Christina’s eyes the sovereign is
still the lost dead monarch, and not infre
quently, when the "King” is mentioned, a
strange, startled expression comes into her
face and involuntarily she mnrmers, “Ah! the
child!” The little fellow’s father is, it may
the midst of his family, especially when out of
Russia and spending his holidays with his
Daniah father-in-law at Fredericksburg, a
kindly natnred gentleman and a loving father.
He probably would have been very glad if he
could have accepted the invitation of the king
of Denmark, who is said to have remarked to
him last summer, that it would be best for
THE PRINCE OF WALES AS A EOT.
jury to the present ponrff, and if the King’s
health continues, he has every chance of being
both crowned ard anointed ruler. He is, in
fact, a sturdy child, and his mother, the Queen,
delights in showing him off to her irditnes and
expatiating on his strength, health and pro
gress. The little fellow is well cared for and
the Queen heiself delights in assisting at all
the petty details of baby life.
THE SON OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF SWEDEN.
be here said, not yet allowed to repose in its
tomb. Clothed only in a thin garment his
body lies on a slab of rock near a running
spring of water in a cavern in the side of the
mountain on the slope of which the Escurial is
built. There it wil! remain until it has attained
all the peculiar properties of a mummy, and
then only will it be placed in its niche in that
marvellous Jasper vault under the great dome
of the Escuria! Church, where only the re
mains of Spanish Kings and the mothers of
lungs are allowed to lie. Some bodies, nota
bly that of Queen Isabella’s profligate father,
remained on the rocky table for years and
years, subjected to the peculiar atmosphere of
the cavern, before it was in a fit state to be
transferred to the vanit. The name of this
ghastly cavern is the “pndrido.”
The most striking and curious picture of the
collection is that of the little old man, clad in
a fnr colored coat and a Russian military cap.
It is that of a prince, who intt rested Europe
considerably sometime ago, and who will
doubtless be heard fiom again in gcod time.
Nicholas Dadiani, Prince of Mingrelia, born
in 1870—now a handsome young fellow and
aide-de-camp to the Czar, has been and is yet
the Russian candid*te for the throne of|Bnlga-
ria, upon which Prince Ferdinand planted
himself somewhat boldly over a year ago after
Alexander Gf Battenburg had abdicated.
Prince Ferdinand is suffering from a big head
and a ciionic disease of the nose, also from a
lack of recognition on the part of European
powers and princes. Hi3 mother managed to
get his name into the last edition of the Gotha
Calendar among the reigning princes of Eu
rope, but in the last edition he is relegated to
semi obscurity, and eventually his name will
have to be classed among tha princes without
thrones. Russia knows how to wait and to
get what she wants in the end, ard the Prince
of Mingrelia will, in all piobabiiity, be event
ually the ruler of Bulgaria, in spite of Eng
land’s threats to send two squadrons to the
Black Sea in case Russia tries to interfere in
Bulgarian sffairs again In the first place it is
problematic whether the English fleet will be
able to get into the Black Sea at all, in face of
the great fleet that Russia herself has in the
Euxine. However, Prince Nicolas Dadiani, is
well bred, has a cultivated mind, is polished
He is at present a man of thirty-eight in Sam-
arcund, where he married the daughter or a
post-master. Physiognomists can read, if
they choose, the traits of deviltry in the
young face as drawn from a photograph and
given with this article. The expression on it
is certainly not as charming as that on the face
of the other Russian prince—the Grand Duke
Alexis, the third brother of the present em
peror, and is now the Grand Admtral of the
Russian fleet. He visited the United States
in 1871 while on his voyage round the worid
and is still pleasantly remembered. He has
grown up to be a splendid fellow, and his char
acter is of the best. He married the daughter
of Joukovsky, the well-known Russian poet,
but the union was annulled by imperial com
mand, and since then he has remained un
bound to family ties. And with Alexis as a
bov we close this review of the youthful scion
of European royalty, without, however, ex
hausting the subject.
PERSONAL MEHTION.
What the People Are Doing
aitf^"***” 0 *
A,
Robert Browning recent!^refused $1,000
from a Boston firm for a short poem.
Rnbenstein is again reported engaged for a
tour of this country for $100,000.
A bast of the late Matthew Arnold is to be
placed in Poet’s Comer, Westminister Abbey.
Charles G. Leland (Hans Bteitman) is mak
ing a “Dictionary cf American words and
Phrases.
Trinity College, Cambridge, England, re
cently bought an autograph letter of Sir Isaac
Newton for $315,
The late Vice President Wheeler gave away
between $40,000 and $50,000 during the closing
years of his life.
The degree of doctor of laws was conferred
,. . . ,. „ ^ , upon Judge D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, by
him to give up his Russian situation, bring to Hiawassee College.
Denmark his loved onep; his treasures of art ,, . , , . * 4
and gold, and all of h s household sods, and Ms. Blame has engaged passage to return to
so to live out his days in peaceful Denmark, United States on the steamer Trave from
free from the fear of the daggers and bombs of Southampton July 10,
the dynamiters. The visits of the Czar to the Chas. E, Simon, a mechanic of Arkadelphia,
court of his wife’s father, which grow more has fallen heir to a good portion of an $1,000,-
and more protracted every year, are in fact 000 estate in Canada.
the only breathing spells of anything like The Earl of Dudley, who comes of age this
peace of mind granted to the unhappy rules of month, has an income of $1,000,000 a year.
Russia by the Nihilists, who follow him with j He has been lame from his birth,
demoniacal hatred.
THE DAUGHTER OF THE KING OF HOLLAND.
The pictures of him, drawn by correspond
ents in Denmark during the past summer, are
entirely flattering to the Czar. There he de
lighted in makiDg excursions with his children
and the Empress, and amnsing himself like
any one relieved from duty and enjoy ing a
good holiday. He was, as a boy, very taciturn,
and this is one of his charactsristics to this
Herr Krapp, of the celbrated gun works of
Essen has gone to St. Petersburg to take some
contracts for the Russian artillery.
Robert Louis Stevenson, the story writer, is
in San Eraucisco making arrangements for
his seven months' yacht cruise in the South Pa
cific.
In the grand court of the Kremlin at Mos-
day, bat he has been made arbitrary and des- cow there is abont to be erected a monument
potic principally by the persecution of the in memory of the late czar which will cost
mal-contents who have threatened his life ever $050,050.
since he came to the throne. Even now, The ashes of Bethoven will be removed July
whenever he is away from St. Petersburg, he 21 to the new Central cemetery at Vienna,
is a comparatively happy man. If Shakspeare’s where they will rest beside those ol Mczart and
assertion be trn», that he who hath not mnsic Schubert
ito^tleWe Ar‘ra 'dXt tloft The oldest living graduate of West Point is
toe catelorr tor we have to^ntooritv of M General G. W. C. Butler, of St. Louis, who was
Stralwslh for laying* tha^^tlm^botnb-ridden * n tke "ji 888 °* 1820 ’ and “ now ei S hty ' nine
Czar of Russia beguiles ths interim of time, Y e8rs ola -
when he is not dodging Nihilistic missils, by - Col. J. M. G. Parker, ex-postmaster of New
playing on toe Fench horn, with which instrn-1 Orleans, died at Lowell, Mass. He was a reia-
1 tive by marriage of Gen. B. F. Butler, and
leaves a wife, one son and two daughters.
Mr. Gladstone is what would be called in
this country a freeh-air crank. He has a great
horror of a badly ventilated room and is
pretty apt to be made sick if he speaks in one.
Pro. Elliot Cones, the ornithologist, is hard
at work at the Smithsonian Institution prepar
ing the natural history words that are to be
used in Century Dictionary.
The 100th birthday anniversary of H. Corn-
ton, the oldest resident of the Northwest, was
celebrated on the 29to nit by the Board of
Trade at St. Joseph, Misouri.
George B. Thayer, of Hartford, Conn., who
crossed the continent to California on the bi
cycle two years ago, is crossing toe ocean now
to do Europe in toe same way.
General Fremont was in San Francisco
recently, for a few days on a vieit after an
absence of nine years. His health is poor and
he will soon start for the East.
Nero, an aged negro of Henry county Ala.,
claims to be 108 years old, was married nine
times, and is the father of 117 children. He
has been a preacher for 86 years.
A large memorial window is abont to be
placed in Trinity Church, Lennox, Mass., in
scribed; “In loving memory of Chester Alan
Arthur, twenty-first President of toe United
States."
Henry VillBrd confirms the statement that
he is about to undertake an expedition to the
south pole. Dr. Nenmayes, director of the
Deutche Zewarte, of Hamburg, will c%-opper-
ate with him.
Captain Robert B. Taylor, who died at the
Asylum for the Insane in Lexington, Ky., re
cently, was toe pioneer telegraph operator em
ployed by toe New Orleans and Ohio Com
pany, which established the first telegraph
line south of the Ohio in 1847.
The Memph's Bridge.
Mechanic, Augusta, Ga: Tell u» something
about tbe proposed bridge over tbe Mississippi at
Memphis.
We can’t tell much yet, as we think tbe plans have
not been perft cted—nor Its exact location deter
mined. The appraocb from the west will begin
about a mile from tbe banks of tbe river, wblle that
from tbe east, or Memphis, side It will be only four
hundred feet; as Mempbls Is ballt on a commanding
bluff. The central span will be seven hundred feet,
and tbe others six hundred! eet; and the bridge will
be built of steel a Dd solid maionrT, and is estimated
to cost $2 000,000. It is expected that there will be
only one railway track—but there will be a wagon
and toot way on a level with the track.
Religious Denominations.
Sunday Scbdol Scholar, Dalton. Ga: What is the
number ot Metbodists, and Baptists and Catholics,
and how many Sunday Schools in tbe United States?
Tbe latest statistics we have seen gives tbe num
ber of Metbodists at 4.601.410; Baptists, 3 728.745;
and Romon Catholics at 7.000 000. But It Is stated
that tbe Catholics connt all their population, ltis es
timated tbdt If tbe Methodists did the same, tbe
denomination would count over 23,000,000. As to
Sunday Schools in tbe United States, we cant say—
but we have seen a statement that In all tbe world
there are 18 400 159 teachers and scholars, of which
about one-half are In the United States.
Robes of Office.
Democrat Hoy. Chapel mil. N. C.: I sffmetlmes see
mention of “Robes of Office,” In connection with the
U. S- Supreme Court Juages. What Is meant?
The “robes” are worn by Justices ot the Supreme
Court on all State, or so to speak, c fficial occasions.
Tbe garment Is a long black robe, enveloping tbe
person from tbe shoulders to the feet. It is made
full, with full sleeves and full body, and somewhat
resembles the robe worn by the clergymen of some
cnurcbes, except, perhaps it has less elaboration
abont the shoulders. Tbe custom of wearing these
robes of office was borrowed from cur cousins across
the sea, where such garments are worn almost uni
versally by public personages In Church and State.
Washington’s Oath.
Young Politician, Montgomery, Ala.: Who admin
istered tbe oath to Washington on bis first taking
the Presidential < flice?
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston, ot New York, ad
ministered tbe oatb oft nice to Washington. He was
Cbancellor of tbe State of New York, wblcb office
be beid until 1801. He was born in tbe city of New
York. Nov. 27th, 1746, and died Feb. 2Gth, 1813. He
stood high as a statesman and jurist. His late years
were devoted to Introducing into New York State,
Improvements in agriculture, and encouraging a
taste for tbe fine arts among bis countrymen, as well
as having been associated with Robert Fnlton In tbe
early experiments In steam navigation:
The House of Hanover.
A. H. 8 , Columbus, Miss.: 1. Why is It that the
four Georges and William and Victoria, of Great
Britain, are called of tbe House of Hanover, when
their last name Is Guelph? 2 Was Queen Victo
ria’s husband her cousin; If so, whose son was he,
and what was his name?
1. Tbe name of Guelph or—or as It Is familiarly
wrltter.G uelf—was that of an illustrious family whlcb
long occupied a large place In European politics.
As one writer remarks: “To give a fall account of
tbe party quarrels of Gnelf and Gblbellln would be
to give tbe history of Mediaeval Italy.” It was
transplanted from Italy to Germany in the 11th
century, where It became tbe ruling race for sev
eral centuries. Tbe family still continues In two
lines of Brnnswlck, the royal one of Great Britain,
and tbe dneal one of Germany. The lather ol
George I., Elector ot Hanover. 2. Qoacn VMarla
was married to her cousin, nieae Albert, sen ot
Duke Ejruoct Lot flaxe-Cob;
Louise of Saxe Altenbnrg.
PRINCE NICOLAS OF MINGRELIA.
ment he is an adept” Mr. Strakosch further
says that on one occasion, while he was Czar
evitch, he played a Fench horn obligato to a
song given by Mme. Nilssohn. Ia his private
orchestra at Gatchina he is said to take his
part faithfully among toe brass along with toe
musicians. Historians do not make any record
of the fact that he has ewer invited his brothei-
in law, toe Duke of Edinburg, toe Eug'ish fid-
Mrs. Gregory has lately completed two ele
gant portraits cf ex-Gov. and Mrs. McDaniel,
for their new residence in Monroe, Walton
county, Ga. Her work is always elegantly
finished both in crayon afid oil.
DR. H. ROBINSON,
Discoverer of Cacterine or Extract of the Mexi
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