The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-14
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.
Glimpses Of Transatlantic
History.
A H E RIOS DEATH.
More Horrors from Russian
Prison Cells.
Russian

The London Freemason points ont that in February
next there will be hvo Sundays. This fact occurs
but three times in q century. Thus. after 1850 We
shall have to wait until 1920 before the shortest
month in the year can again boast Of five Sundays.
Prince Reuss Xxx. and his young bride twho. as all
tho world knows. up till last May circus rider
in 1senzs Hippodrome) have passed through Vienna
on their way to Sofia where the young couple to
stay few weeks with the Princes old chum and
fellow officer. Alexander I. of Bulgaria.
Bargoss. the Italian. who styles himself the "man
locomotive" has just been engaged in "soas-vou-
please performance. Starting from Montpelier. ON
foot. at four in the afternoon Of Sunday, the Dist
ult.. he arrived at Bordeaux at the hour
the Goth uit The distance is $50 kilometres 1926
miles,. which he thus covered in five days-an
age of sixty-ave miles per day. He wins bet of
3,000f. by his exploit.
Lady Burdett Coutts met with accident the
other day while cruising in her steam yacht. the
walrus. among the Channel Islands. When off the
southwest point of Jersey. in charge of Guernsey
pilot. the vessel being taken too close in shore
struck o rock well known in the locality. and had
q large hole knocked in her bottom under the engine
room. signal was made for Jersey pilot, who
boarded the yacht and took her to Cherbourg
An entirely now pastime has been invented in
England for country houses in the shape tray
toboggining. The way of it is thus described by
correspondent OF Vanity Fair:-"You take tea tray
to the top of good flight Of stairs sit in it, hold
to the sides Of the tray with both hands
and let yourself go! If you manage well
and easily. and bring up on the landing at the bot
tom; If you don't manage it properly, you turn
round when part Of the way down. and get good
can play at it. and in the house where I it
played they toboggined far better than the men.
who generally lost their tray and themselves half
way down the stairs"
Prince Bismarck accompanied to the Kaiser
Btadt by six Prussan detectives under leader. Herr
and round the portals Of the Imperial Hotel to
the Chancellor drive of grand to his audience
his head douStiasa full Of aemta begged Sed
the Austrian police to clear the people
away. as is nowadays unceremoniously done
Prussian mouchard however. stared i'll establishment
when he received the laughing rebuff by the in
spector -'Sir. we in Vienna are accustomed to al
low the people to stand where they like in the pub
lie street as long as they behave decently. I have
order to clear away the crowd, and you may rest
assured that there is not the least cause for
anxiety"
A nose show lately took place in Vienna, which,
o ~ perhaps mot by the ha
amusement and interest or the public. The long
dancing room of the old inn, Eur Bretze." was the
scene Of the competition. which lasted from mid
night till four A. NJ. Every one. OH entering the
room in which the 'noses" were assembled in merry
symposium" received q ticket, which, after due
elaboration. he presented to the Of his choice
and the holder of the greatest number Of these
tickets when four A. M arrived was declared winner
Here sat ostler famed in his parish the long,
snoutke proboscis with which Nature had fur.
nished him. while next him. and engaged in pleas
ant banter with rival competitor. sat the renowned
Reicher the haker. whose rubicund and raspberry
like organ can be seen like the red lamp Of railway
train 81 he dashes through the streets behind his
pair of fast trotters. The hour approaches As the
clock strikes four "Hoch Reicher bursts ont from
the company. for the takers famous four-inch nose
has won.
Commander Cheyne writes to the London papers:-
"Doubts have lately bewildered many people in this
country to the practicability of using balloons
during the month Of june in the Arctic regions in
consequence of the mean temperature for the first
week in that month being only % degrees. or
o degrees below freezing point OF water. Allow
me- sir, to dispeI these doubts at by neon
trovertbe fact. On the 18th of October. 1852. the
above zero. or 81 degrees below freezing point.
wind northeasterly, force of wind g. weather
PINE. and barometer r.. standing at so4o bal;
sent free with 800 despatch papers, addressed to Sir
John Franklin. The balloon went naturally. first
going off to the =. s. W.. but shortly rising into
another current Of air 1T high altitude altered its
course to west until it disappeared out of sight.
(These different currents OF will BIO in favor,
~ we shall work them.) This balloon only
made Of goldbeaters skin. yet did its duty well
those sent off at much higher temperatures. Com
ment Is unnecessary.
London World:-"It is the rule Of the Lord Cham
berlans Office at London to send to the Queens
Jewellers for valuation all the ornaments which are
found in tho palace after Court ball concert.
The day after the last State ball gentleman came
down to the Office and inquired for diamond neck
lace which his vito had lost at the ball the
night before. The chief clerk assured him that
no diamond necklace had been found; whereupon
the husband proceeded to expatate ON the enormous
sum which he had given for the necklace. with
description Of its varions beauties The clerk listened
IN silence with much apparent sympathy. and.
quietly remarked. 1t is very odd coin
cidence. but your necklace was OF tho same
pattern as paste ornament which has been found.
but which has been pronounced Of 40 little value
that 1t was not worth ADVERTISING The paste neck
signing receipt for it. which involved swallowing
large mouthful Of humble pie after his circum-
stantial description OF the cost of it. Could Privy
Councillor, who has held high Office. condescend
farY
"lt is nearly sixty years since the Duke of Kent.
having caught cold while visiting Salisbury Cathe-
only an affectionate husband. but the of sub
pstenceas subsistence is unde rstood by royal per-
young Princess Victoria and her mother were face
to face with poverty in one of its COM
them under his protection. He had known some
thing of straitened circumstances himself, having
had only annual income OF f400 to live before
he married the Princess Charlotte and 100000 q
year. He lost time, therefore, in bringing the
aunt and cousin of his late wife. first Kensing-
ton and then to Claremont, providing for the man-
tenance of their household until In 1926. Parliament
granted the young Princess an annuity Of &c ,0O0
Those nindnssses have never been been, forgotten by
passage in her life that the inscription which ac-
companies the white marble statue of King Leopold.
Chapel Windsor, should be read. Erected so it
runs, by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. in loving
memory of Leopold the frst King Of the Belgians.
hcr maternal uncle. who was AZ father to her as
she was to him daughter"
priest Hunting in Paris" is tho heading of let
ter from Paris to tho London Globe of the LIST inst.
The ,pondent says AZ three breth-
rem of tho Ecoles Chretiennes were crossing tho
square. In front OF the Montparnasse Station. where
the crowd were manifesting In honor OF the amnes-
tied men who had returned from New Gale
donna. In the Navarin. they were persued by
. number of and boys shouting yice
pArf,eie II Jas les Jcsulea Had they
attempted to run of their lives would have been en-
dangered for the cries grew louder and louder. One
OF their number principal of a college at Marseillcs.
who was twice imprisoned by the communists. aud
had become pretty well acquainted with the amicable
manners and customs of mobs in general, per-
suaded his colleagues not TO change their pace
or to take any notice of the hows and gibes which
fell on their ears. The police were. of course
absent, but fortunately there some four Ave