Sharp County record., 1878-02-15
Foreign Notes.

The Berlin Aquarium refused S12,-
500 for Pongo shortly before his death.
Ali Queen Victoria's married chill
dren have issue except the Marchioness
of Lorne.
Queen Victoria, during her recent
visit to Disraeli, planted tree at
Hughenden Manor to commemorate her
visit.
AT Leipzig a General Anti-Adul-
teration Society" has been formed, and
branches will be established in some 80
towns.
Breach of trust is not viewed lenient-
ly in France, where people are very care
full of their money. M. Guilhot, a very
noted notary at Angouleme, has been
found a defaulter to the tune of $780,
600, and consequently goes to jail for 10
years. -.-,-- y
Thus writes Olive Logan, from the
Old World: "It is really the fact that
jaunty English girls are now raising the
hat by way of acknowledging a bow, the
same as the gentlemen do, The hat
used is the little round felt Oxford,
which looks well enough on top of a
pretty young face, but is powerfully
hard-looking affair on the poll of a wom-
an who ranks in that large and increas-
ing army of the has beens.'"
The Prince of Wales can hang out
his shingle as an attorney, should any
thing happen. He was called to the bar
few years ago, at his own desire and
with the usual formalities, and took the
oath prescribed on admission. He was
at the same time made a master of the
Bench, the Benchers being the govern
ing body of the Society of the Middle
Temple. His portrait has recently
been painted, in the Bencher's silken
robe, and is to be placed in the hall of
the Middle Temple, London. Whether
he knows any thing about law is anoth-
er question.
--Girardin, the French editor, is
lodged like king. He owns and lives
in one of the mansions near the Arc.
His drawing-room is built on the cOlos-
sal scale of Versailles. 1t would hold
public meeting. 1t is very richly fur
nished, but, being too vast to be tricked
out in the ordinary way, its knick-
knacks are busts, bronzes and huge
paintings by Delacroix. Running par
allel to it is a long gallery containing
more pictures and bronzes, and book
shelves, fanked, drolly enough, by busts
OF the past and present NesdameS de
Girardin. For over forty years Girar-
din has held a prominent position in
French society, and he once ruled it al
most absolutely by virtue of the beauty,
genius and grace of his first wife, "Del-
phine Gay"
"A Berlin paper is reminded, by the
death of Prince Sergei, young Russian
officer, in one of the recent battles with
the Turks, that his mother, who was
the Grand Duchess Marie, and daugh-
ter of Czar Nicholas, married under cir
cumstances little uncommon. She fell
in love with a young German noble
man, Duke Maximilian of Leuchten-
berg, who belonged to an insignificant,
poor, and ruined family, and one that
was not even quite up to the mark, to
the Cars notions, in point OF blood.
The Czar was, however, very much at
tached to his daughter, and finally con-
senting to the alliance, proceeded TO
make it tolerable by elevating the ob-
ject of her passion from the humble po-
sition of Captain in the ordnance in
rapid succession to the rank of General,
Admiral of the Empire, with the rank
of Marshal, and member of the Imperial
Council, and decorated him with the
Grand Cross of the AleXanderNewsky
order. The Grand Duchess outlived
her consort, and then made another
misalliance, marrying her riding-mas-
ter, who, like the Duke of Leuchten-
berg, was elevated to a fitting rank and
title.