The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-02-03
FOREIGN NOTES.

Miss Emily Faithful is lecturing in Lon
don on "Eight Months in America" in
which she gives a very interesting account
OF eer late tour through the United States.
Miss f. takes a very fair and impartial
view of American social and political life
bestowing special commentator upon the
hospitality everywhere extended to her.
The university at Heidelberg is the oldest
college in Germany. Its size was enlarged
by the addition of wings, or, rather, separate
buildings, erected in 1902 by the learned
Charles Frederick of Baden, who also pro-
vided it with scientific collections aud emil
nent teachers. 1t possesses grand library
containing 100000 volumes and 800 MSS.
The tower on the summit of the Malcolm,
in Rhinelsnd, is eighty feet high, erected by
Louis TX, Landgrave of Hessen, in
1777. The view is well worth climbing for
embracing the valley of the Rhine from
Speyer to Mayence, the river winding like a
silver thread through richly cultivated orch
ards and villages, along a range of hills
crowned with farms and ruined castles, At
one point can be seen the Vosges and the
DonnersbeFg. and the Main as far as Tannus
and Vogelsber5. At different points of the
ascent the views varied; about twenty feet
lower than the tower, stretched before the
vision the entire plain, from Mannheim to
Darmstadt.
The Cologne Gazette says of the eldest son
of the crown prince and crown princess of
Germany: Prince Frederick William, who
on the 9th instant, will be 10 years of age,
is, as to figure and appearance, not so strong
as is usual with Hohenzollerns, but he is
talented and has been well instructed. The
result of recent examination by the teach
ers of Berlin gymnasium was very salts
factory. The prince acquitted himself well
in the various branches of instruction for
the upper-third form, and in mathematics
and physics, he bad already gone beyond
the requirements of the form.
ANNE Brewster, writing from Rome, says:
Apropos to our new Cardinals, some of us
are laughing heartily over the droll version
of their names in French journals. In one
list is given Cardinal Simor-Salisbourgtar
nocly, archbishop Of vaience! You will
laugh, also, when you see its absurdity. The
archbishop of valence is Cardinal Barrioy
Fernandez, and this bodge-podge or name,
Simon Salisbourgtarnocly. translated into
simple truth, will be found to be COM
pound of the names OF two Cadinals, and
the bishopric ofone ofthem-CardinalSi Simon.
archbishop of Grau, and Cardinal Tarnoczi,
archbishop of Salzbourg.
The German washerwoman can not con-
ceive why an American needs his clean shirt
inside of couple of weeks. As the German
wardrobe isn't extravagant, this custom tells
its little private tale on the wearers, which
hardly requires dilation. At first one is sus-
picious that half the time his linen goes to
sdorn the bosom of dashing military or am
bilious shoO-keeping youth, but the same
buttons were always missing as when he had
given il out. and as he knows no one could
wear it thus without great inconvenience,
he is forced, finally, to take his Iandlady's
word that fourteen days was the biefest in
terval he could expect.
Col. Thomas, Of California, the "Prince''
of joaquin Miller's "Life among the Mo-
docs" is lionizingin London. He an object
of special interest, particularly to the
ladies, for women ever have been and ever
will be hero worshipers. The "Princev is a
handsome. sun Drowned man, of command
ing presence, with jet black hair and NOUS
tache, and dark eyes, full of intelligence and
fire; one easily recognizes in him the brave,
generous, self sacrificing, true hearted man
Joaquin Miller describes, and it is the pos
session of these noble qualities. not less than
his progressing appearance, that has
gained for him the sOubriquet which will
doubtless cling to him while he lives.