The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-01-20
Foreign Notes.

The French artillery is horsed with mules
The Princess of Wales has $50 600 year
for pin-money.
Mlle TItiens will make her first appear
ance in America in opera at the Academy
of Music, New York, on the twenty fourth
of January, in her great impersonation of
Norma.
1t is computed that the amount which
the British public have lost by foreign
loans during the past six years, amounts to
$500, 900, 600. The Turkish loans are not
included in this. 7..
There is some talk of a fresh claimant
turning up IN high life, says the London
World A certain captain in the Royal
navy was divorced from his nObly born
wife in the last year of last century. The
captain died six years later, and his brother
thereupon became heir to peerage, which
he subseq 1ently Inherited, and which is
now en- joyed by his grandson. But some
body says that after his divorce the cap,
tain, r N, married again, and had chill
dren, whose descendants ought to have the
peerage and the estates. The immaculate
Burke is absolutely silent on the point OF
this second marriage; and, indeed, there
seems some difficulty in proving it, for a
very large reward is offered for u copy Of
the marriage certificate.
The good fortune of the Gukwar OF
Baroda, one of the most gorgeous OF the
Princes of India with whom the Prince Of
Wales has come in contact, is subject OF
endless interest and amusing bewilderment
| to the English correspondents. He looks
about ten or twelve, the age at which an
English boy is most awkward, uncouth and
addicted TO tumbling over his own abnor-
mally developed feet. Only few months
| ago he was a poor boy in an obscure village,
of family occasionally pinched for the
commonest necessities of life. His practi-
cal experience with clothing did not ex
tend beyond the primitive dhotie, the life
before HIM was that of the ploddiug euti-
vator of few acres of miserable land
Suddenly there came for Rim grand trans
formation scene. The village boy, through
careful genealogical inquiries, was discov
cred to be collaterally the nearest heir Il
the disgraced and deposed Guikwar. HI
was ken from his village with all hon
or. placed with elaborate ceremonial OF
the throne or DarUda5 +he naislAa- and Stat
dignitaries owned the village boy as thei
master and bowed down before him; tb'
British resident did him honor; the golt
and silver guns of Baroda we're his; thu
chains. collars, aigrettes, and aguillettes o
gems, fabulous in their value, were the 10
: defeasible If incidental appanage Of TIL
, youth before whom a month before therela
! a future of soTdid toll No freak Of fctiol
could be imagined stranger than the ama7
ing revolution in this child's lot. The DO
is as composed, and even apsthetic. in hi
, new position rs if he had been born int
, the purple He accepts homage with
/ Ianguid placidity Of condescepsion; be nel
, Iigently patronizes government secretari,
and elfimportant residents, apparently n
[ garding all such persons as having been e.
j pressly created to contribute TO his c0Dven
5 ence; he has fallen naturally and with gei
4 uine gracefulness into a tone ef peTfe'
r equality, and frank, boyish cordiahty, woi
e derfully well blended with dignity, IN b
E intercourse with the Prince Of Wales.