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OUR LONDON
London, December io.—-No
cess has attended the efforts
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have be ® 13 made during the last
% veeks to effect a settlement, of
differences between Prince
mar of Denmark and his
wife, and it is pretty well
that henceforth they will Mve
together apart, the children
maining with their father at
hagen, wherc their mother has
rendered herself altogether impos
sible.
While 'Prince Waidemar is
saint, yet sympathies both at
and abroad are altogether with
since the conduct of the
has been of such an
and eccentric character as to
to the supposition that she is
quite right in her head. She
to take a positive delight in
ing, ridiculing and even
insulting old Queen Louise of
mark ; quarreled with her
ing lather-in-law, the king, as well
as with the crown prince . and
crown princess, and conducted hei
self in such a way as to become the
talk of the Danish capital.
She became the pet aversion of
the princess of Wales and the czar¬
ina, and during the last two years
was purposely avoided by the late
czar owing to her efforts to make
use of her relationship with him,
either for the good of her relatives
or else for that of her country—
France.
Imagining herself far more clev¬
er than she really is, she permitted
herself to be made a cat’s-paw by
certain unscrupulous people in con¬
nection with the famous forged-let¬
ter scandal which had all Europe
by the cars, and almost brought
about a war between Germany and
Russia, the conflict being averted
only by Prince Bismark’s being
able to submit in person to Alex¬
ander proofs of the fradulent
character of the letters showni/to
his Muscovite majesty by Prrficess
Waidemar. » *
Then, tco, she got into no end of
a mess in connection with the scan¬
dal which resulted in the summarj’
recall in disgrace of the French en¬
voy to Copenhagen—the comte
d’Aunaj— and, finally, she sudden
ly sprung the comte de Paris and
the duchess d’Orleans upon the hup
py family party at Fre dens burg,
much to the disgust of all the im¬
perial guests and .to the annoyance
of the Russian emperor, who had
absolutely refused to 6 ee or to hold
any intercourse with the duke of
Orleans when the latter was in St.
Petersburg.
Princess Waidemar never for¬
gave the late czar’s having forced
Prince Waidemar to withdraw his
acceptance to the throne of Bulga¬
ria a short time before it was offered
to .its present occupant, Prince
Ferdinand of Coburg. She bad
hoped to be able to queen it there,
and was bitterly disappointed in
her expectations. Three, months
ago she left her husband and chil¬
dren and journeyed to France and
to^ England,. where she has re¬
mained ever since, absolutely re¬
fusing to go back, and having
placed herself in such a position
that she could not do so if she were
it.
Of course this means a financial
loss to Prince Waidemar, since the
annuity of $30,000 a year allotted
to her on her marriage is payable
to her personally 1 and be ill-af
, can
ford to bring up his children with¬
out ft, all the more so as tbe death
of EmperOr Alexander has been a
heavy pecuniary loss to the old king
and queen of Denmark For Em
Alexander, knowing M
small is tbe civil list of the Danish
king, and how utterly inadequate
is his private fortune, was in tbe
habit of paying a large allowance
his .privol# 1 to the
h» wife- ; i l
Whether an actual
pi— «—*»• ••
BB a fervent cat
l Prince
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Strangely enough the only sister
of Princess Waidemar, Princess
Marguerite of Orleans, who was
jilted a few years ago by the duke
of Orleans, has the reputation of
showing a tendency to similar ec
centricities, having the most ex
travagant notions on many subjects,
notably with regard to her rank
and personal charms.
There are not a few ptfeple who
attnbute fttH-iW* fhte this lent lack «r of mental balance
on the part of the two royal sisters,
Marie and Margurite of Orleans, ’
to . ,, the fact that tneir . parents . . were
first cousins, their father, the due
de * Chartres uTa v' havino- Keen « mn nf
the late duke of f n Orleans, i and their ■
mother a daughter of his jsailor
brother, the prince de Joinville.
Let .me add that Princess Walde
mar d d nc t return to Copenhagen
for the silver-wedding festivities of
her brother-in-law,the crowr. prince
of Denmark, and that she alone' of
all her relatives sent no present or
even a message of c jngratulation.
Indeed, the breach between herself
a nd the royal family of Denmark
s eems to bo final and irreparable,
Apropos of the royal family of
Denmark, I would like to say that
it is a great mistake to imagine that
it is only people of humble rank
who are in the habit of scratching
their names on window panes,
Thus, I noticed on the last occasion
when I was in Denmark that one
of the windows of the royal rail¬
road carriage, ordinariaHy used by
King Christian and his children, is
simply covered with signatures cut
with a diamond. Among them I
noticed “Bertie and Alix” (the
prince and princess of Wales),
“Sacha” (the late czar), “Noki”
(the present czur)^ “Eddie” (the
late duke of Clarence) and, of
course, “Wilhelm” (the present
emperor of Germany), wlio may be
relied upon to put himself in evi¬
dence w henever he gets'the chance.
To the gift of 1,000,000 florins
to the charities of Vienna, just re¬
ported, there is quite a little story
attached. The donor of this
princely cont ribution is Baron Her
mann Ivonigsw arter, the son and
chief heir of that Hebrew banker,
y/ho enjoyed for so many years the
distinction of being the only mem
her of his race and creed who oc
C upied a seat in the Austrian house
of lords.
While serving as hussar in a regi¬
ment stationed at Grosswardein six
years ago young Baron Hermann
fell violently in love with the
daughter of the well-known Hun¬
garian sportsman and nobleman,
Ccmnt Blascowicz. The young
ccuple found all sorts of obstacles
thrown dn the way of their mar
ring., Boron Komgswn.tor . thcent
ening to disinherit his son if he
abandoned his faith,while the Bias
cowiczs would not hear of their
daughter becoming a Jewess. Yet
it was indispensable that one or the
other should be converted, since
marriages between Christians and
Jews are strictly prohibited by
Austrian law.
Finally the young countess gave
way and became a Jewess, to the
horror of all her relatives. The
marriage took place, and when she
birth to a little Boy the joy .of
her old father-in-law knew no
bounds. Realizing the sacrifice
which she had made for his sake,
old baron canceled tlie <Jause in
will that provided for the disin¬
of any child of his who
become a convert to Christi¬
and inserted in lieu -thereof a
that in the event of
Baron Hermann abandoning the
of his fathers he should forfeit
florins of his property to
of Vienna. LkRoy.
W e are selling the
dress goods 20
cent cheaper than
jetitors can
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TARIS REPOSTERS.
TO BE SUCCESSFUL THEY MUST BE
BORN WITH TH* TALENT.
What r& Expected of Them mad now Their
Work is Graded—Why None of Them Are
Old Men—One Reporter’s Experience In
Securing Important Infor m ati on .
. When the "chief of the service of in
formations” consents to annex a do*
bqfcante, his aptitudes are first utilized
in the “department des chiens ereves.”
Xhia * i8 tho professional slang for pick
ing up such items at the police stations
as are not sent» to the prefecture. For
this work he will be paid ^ 3 or 8 oen
timeg a Uue for those ser tod, on the
average about one in twenty of what ho
hands in. These modest auxiliaries have
only exceptionally ^ the i^ perspective of
t0 ake t b em80 noted. In
deed their role is limited, for if they
learn of an accident or an affair out of
the common run they must telephone
the fact to their papers, from whence
tho chief sends as soon as possible oue
or two staff reporters, but if the late
ness of the hour or the gravity of the
event justifies such an initiative, the
titular of tho “chiens ereves” becomes
somebody. In this case, if he is clever,
he can render bis journal special service
by avoiding a “beat,” and he will be
well recompensed. This is why, over at
.the Cafe du Coq d'Or, consumers some
times hear a wmng man at a neighbor
ing table shout gleefully to his com
rades, “At last I have my first crimol”
and the comrades press his hand and
congratulate him warmly.
Perhaps ho is promoted to the dignity
of “enquetcur,” or interviewer. Now
he receives a retaining salary of §50 to
§00 a month and is paid extra for all
tho lines ho writes, so that ho usually
earns §25 to §30 weekly. He must give
his definite measure, however, andshow
if ho really has the gift of the profes
sion, for after two or three failures he
would bo thanked and have his head
cutoff. Of tho 150 thf reporters who each
year spring up on Parisian become press
eight or ten at most survive and
corporals and sergeants in tho profes
sion. To succeed it is necessary not only
,to havo good health, perfeot boaring, a
courtesy and education whioh permit of
being received everywhere, hut groat
cloamess of ideas and a remarkable
power of ossimulatiou. The reporter
may know nothing, but he? must be
quick at understanding everything. It
is necessary that, a question being gi von,
ho shouldknow in a fow iustants who
is tho person in Paris the most probable
to solve it. He must'go to soo this per
son or some ouo clso oqnally informed,
and in 20 phrases of on interview gather
a clear, net and precise resume of tho
responses to malia He must also have
tho scent of a dctectivo and abovo all
love for his profession.
I know a Paris reporter who was sent
out to writo about the doings of a for
eigu sovereign then at a French water
ing place. Ho wont to tho chateau whgre
the monarch was stopping, but was po
litely UtoT kicketl out by tho dally," grand chamber
;■ Wo tol«^xph th, 1>M«
said, new.i relative to his majesty to
our notional papers. You can take from
them for your columns.” This did not
satisfy my confrere. Ho had been scut
at much expense on this special work,
and it would never do for lnm to do
nothing daring hi, tojoaxu. A brilliant
ing tag^t out the valuo ol tuo^ letters trans
lSSgSeticktoS^ffeS^mS” ‘•^hfeuthatrionlf^hrSSTcvof
sir, I will give you a lonis every man
in, ,U ^tniil com nodpnn.» «nnrtot
dZmlhTteL The^tda-^a^hehour drntSn^SvS! when the
dispatches from tho the chateau anivea, j
those two men were very busy in
office over an imaginary correipomlenoe,
bn* as sam as the Morse instrument bo
gan to tick tbe old man inscribed on a
sheet of paper letters at foreign words
he did not understand. Tbe reporter
read these words over hi* shoulder. 0a |
official alspateu was scarcely ou When
sumwSTIS vraT^rca thiT literal
trauMlation to its sender by
one of tho sovereign’s household, while,
as for tbe royal guest and his grand
dumtoWn. tlw W tin, pib«™ o»
oerning re«iinj to themselves the tojotmid long before t^Ucoo, tlieit.
national papers arrived. i
When a reporter has in analogous ctr- i
emnstsnoe. shown therosonroesofi his
MfsaaassM as
tionai that he garni, more Ml a
and tbe ^
so
the employment be filled
Thi* is tho lB£S eeeeoa why
why tboee who are
age are pointed on
before that age the
do rep^’ mh**i*mr*it ’’
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of
the fftoy.toig cS9C t that
|. MAXIM'S NEW IDEA.
A Fort la the Air Which Would Cost a
j Fortune, but End a War.
The celebrated inventor of the Maxim
: gun, one of the most formidable oS
moderh weapons, is hard at work, os he
has been for a long time, upon the ole
problem of aerial navigation. In one im¬
portant respect Maxim is working on
different and less difficult lines than
those which other inventors havo tried
to follow. They have aimed at the de¬
vising of flying machines which could
be operated at a cost not too great to ad
mit of their use in tho ordinary busi
nose affairs of life. Tho inventor of tho
Maxim gun, however, is very nppropvi
ately working, primarily, to produce a
machine which can be used in warfare,
For this purpoee it is not at all noces
sary that the expense of air navigation
should be low enough to bring it within
reach of commerce or travel. What he
is aiming at is the creation of a new
and terrible engine of war, and every
body knows that the great powers of
Europe take little account of cost when
they are doaling with tho armaments
which they regard as essential to their
very existence.
If a flying machine or airship can
be invented which will be efficient in
ordinary weather and will enable tho
power possessing it to attack the for
tresses and camps of its enemies from
above, there will bq a mad rush to ob
tain plenty of tho new engines of de
struction, no matter how much they
may cost to build and operate. The pic
ture of wholesale destruction'which is
held up before the military mind wlien
an inventor talks of pouring dynamite
shells down upon a beleaguered fortress
Into from a great height and thufcblow it
atoms, without risk or possible do
fense, is too attractive to permit money
to stand in tho way at all. Perhaps we
shall see that wonderful dream of the
poet come true which is told in the
lines:
Hear tho heavens an with shouting and there
rained a ahasily dew
Froml J“SL^! ^ uavle8 “rePPUns in the
^traibiue.
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Ax, Expen.iv. Cow.
There is a man in Chicago who payB
|18,000 a yoar for tlio privilege of keep
ing a cow. He is asano man, a business
man, a man of family and generally
respected in the community. His poor
rolativos deolaro him a freak, and his
neighbors shrug their shoulders and
murmur things about rich men’s whims,
The way of it is that he possesses a val
unblo building lot in a choioo residence
portion of the city, and having nothing
else to do with it he pnt a liioo little
fenoe around it and quartered therein
his pet Jersey cow. Tho cow was an
artistic cow and harmonized well with
the green turf and little bashes, so poo
pie rather admired the arrangement.
One day a man came along who thought
he would like to build a house on that
particular lot, so ho banted up the own
er and made him a spot cash offer of
|800,000 for the loud. His offer was ro
fused, decisively and politely.
“But," remonstrated a relative,
aghast, “that would pay you $18,000
Why o a did j™ nta.
it?”
Tlio rich man lit a cigar and turned a
protesting faoo on his accuser. “Yes,”
assented in a puzzled way, “but
what wouhl I have done with my cow?”
—Chicago Record.
in tim“ and
sprionslv interfere if allowed to
cross or touch each other. After that the
trees will nearly take cAre of them
ssor^^Wntzrt '
. are of a Utkin, dwarf habit If tho
foot ct
ffround, it will not bo too low. Tho beat
tor cultivating is a disk or cutaway
linrYrrTT Th m f l reach WnptJT bovond the
toam and radoi: the branches
^ f ^ S^wSTSder ^^ “ toJf tto ^L ^cannStS A pW
^ 9 ot tv I^ at tl fac ^'
trees ™<mtOa^ th t damrer oX of
SSTU? ’ } t m ^t wnSlte
» .mooth
.. t do
trees or in the space between, either
91 which would not bo desirable.—Phil
adeiphia-Ledger.___ "
Mi _ ht Stea lu
„ .. u „ Tood l w >• i bolted i„
^ wUch ^ 1<tt Willlo „ £
w un hnmrh» .
^ ® S^Sdihe
might marry a man
sSS«SSSS?
^tig drew in Paris because it “was so
vary, very aheap, and she might need it
for herself one of these days.” How
poor Burtea woald have laughed over
this true story!—8t Louis Post-Dis
perqoct or family
rtretef’ asked tbe ti<
ft be* MacferT’ said tbe
--•XAt
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RelU” ebe replied,
Bgggjgg
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CHANCE AND CHANGE.
“There was »ros« by roar gate last yean
Good neighbor, tell me now,” 1 m said,
**Rave tho frosts of the winter left It. eere'
Or bloom" It yet in your garden bod?”
“Two for one ;
Have tho red bml« blown,
Two for on« ihftt thero uwid to bei
AndmanyacUangatuayeax!” ■sssassas;
said she
“And there was a girl ’neAfh j-our rod
last year. .
Good neighbor, fell me now," ho said,
“Docs her loot fall light in tiie coilugs
near, wooed v f
Or is sho und Is she wed?”
She lies apart
With a puisclobs heart,
A brokon heart, •neath'ttiO red rose tree’
For there-’ii tneny «.<l„y *
’Twist May unti Stay,
And many a chauye in a year!” snid site
—Kate P. Ostrot tl m G'.nl Uonvbheepuur.
TOO MANY SPARROWS.
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TheEu^Birai. Not Even a Favorite w
Uis ° wn Uome -
It appears that the detested Eucjlish
sparrow J s by no moans a general favor
ito in his own home across the water,
y ^ 01 ’ 0 his habits have been more care
fully noted. "WiM
* a 3 h 18 ™
B^ds, Useful and Injurious, , . in ths
Boyal Agricultural society s journal,
Mr. C. F. Archibald says: The sparrow
has received an overflowing measure of
abuse from farmers and gardeners, and,,
notwithstanding alll that has been urged
it9 **vor by enthusiastic advocates,
there can be little doubt .hat it deserves
* large snare of the vituperation be¬
stowed upon it. The keynote to the spar
row s character is to be found in the
delusion under which it Inborn that
coru .Brewing earned on for its es
pecml benefit. Grain is undoubtedly the
mainstay of tee sparrow, j. his itob
^ms m the fields r.t seedame, when
eproutmg, in the unripe, milky condi
* 10 “- and when fully matured. At this
last named period a quantity of grain is
wasted by being shaken out on the
g™und*)y the burde, in addition, to the
amount actually consumed. At thi.
time, too, numbers of sparrows which
ive for the greater part of tho year in
aro teinptwl to visit the field,
their gniny appearance proclaiming
usual Haunts,
In gardens tho sparrow finds ful
8C0 P e f ° r its destructive propensities in
devouring peas, of which it is very fond,
” °? es we J. ^ u t ^ e B most toy * goosobemes and way cher
lfc pnlls - to pieces the flowers of ; tlio
crocus, dahlia, primrose, polyanthus,
hepatioa, heartsease, wistariu, tho shoots
of pinks and carnations, tho pods of the
^burnum and the blossom of frtllt
! Te f 8 \ It a ^ so does consideiablo damage
t° beds of young l-adishw ami lettuces,
besides levying toll on the grass seeds
mn8t 5* bo freoly •*“*“•* . 9®‘ *Jl e tha tho
Bpar '
r°w does 1 a K^ nt deal or
Among the posts destroyed _ by tho
g
£^^es- ciaterpi! ll “f« SiSw
oboviss, otherwise known as Mayings,
^^£"45FiSSAfS ™ * “zr ^
*! iem _ Tll ° ff _ nall ty of _. weed seeds w hicli
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the spnrrpw eats must also bo placed to
‘“‘“ SJ ^ X °
* Wnd wcJi jLrtoot, S
knotgwtatt^p, dantlollon, ohiok-
Doobtful About tu« inmbt.
«• not altraj. tltoniaoMoI ifLdnd. true”
At a recent session a prisoner was in
dieted for pocket picking and to most
people in court the clearest possible case
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to tell the jury before they retire?’ ’ aaid
Jjijf 5 #U J.f „ l J , WaBfe ' ! “T , LTlu" It
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, ’ow tb^’H give mo the benefit of the
doubt,’’■replied the prisoner despond
ently. J
T e jury couriered ^helr verdict
They were no little time owr it
“Can I assist you in any way, gentle
mon? ” the »* Iairt becoming
impa tienfe
' “We are almost agreed, me lud, ”
derstand what tbe doubt is tlie prisoner
-Bondon TilvBits.
Web mut'm rorirait.
Daniel Wehster once sat for his por
trait to tbe late G. P. Healy, and the
«■*<■*■* wtot Uni
artist’s favorite auecilotes in after years,
“I think. ” said Webster as he looked
at bis oonnterfeit presentment, “that is
a^|gj * ** I ^ Te ihaTe ^
Tbe are philosophers.
ox should dte, the Ww never
“How I mast go
to work tor (all white taoi who
treat them well are called masters), and
six mouths be will give me a cow.
will have a call If it is a bull caM,
a year I’ll hate a pair of *
should it be a heifer calf I’m all the
richer, for tho next year I’ll tews two
of one. ’’—Hew York
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The Young Housewife-—Havo yea any
Tbe Young Hoorewife-Well, send
a eon pic in tin* for dinner, mid 1
notu® ti n,
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and .
sewing-maciunes, * tv
>«?™ « can m-™* sell VOU
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cycle for $45—-one that
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