The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-10-12
Ell ROPEAN GOSSIP.
alimpses OF the
FaVorites.
Worlds
Interviews, Talks, Opinions and
Paragraphs.

The Cologne Gazette states that the German gov
rnment is beginning to take into consideration the
possibility OF agreeing to the American overtures
for a second silver conference.
DAILY Nelcs:--"The fanatic belief of the Comte dc
chambord in his divine right assumes the aspect OF
amiable and high-minded weakness 1t invests
aim with something of the touching sentiment of a
no nulnent of the past. There is a deep pathos in
The picture given of the old man in the Comte dIde-
VILE pamphlet. where the curtain is-drawn aside
10 present him toastpg his toes at the residc
and chatting conhden,ially to his physician about
his dreams for the future for the regeneration CT
France and for the enlivening of his own family
circle by the presence of the young princes OF the
House of Orleans. The Comte de Chambord is much
better employed thus. and probably much happier.
than he would have been upon the throne OF
France"
Since the late Lord Waterford found his pet tigers
playing 1t ball with his gainek head me efeat
carnivora have usually been considered rather I'M
animals tc keep III private estxolishinehts.
Lady Dixie however. the wife OF sir Deaunon Dixie.
seems not to have been OF this opinion or she Kept
jaguar her own especial pet other people having
little liking for the beast as II had Tor the Ihs
animal it appears. has broken its chain ana Is now
u, large in Windsor Forest. All efforts to recapture
1t have hitherto proved vain. and an evening walk
IL the neghoorhood viii tor the future be attended
with just that spice or danger winch would relieve
ii from the monotony OF an ordinary STROLL Those,
however who object to the jasuar's presence may
possibly call upon his owner To organize u little
shooting party at an early date
There was once time when the post of an envoy
terribly perlous. But Captain Martini in
trusted with regal golden crown by Pope Leo to
King Menehk OF Shon. has had singularly hard
fate. The monarch having always been friendly to
practice of his loya subjects has shown that an oc
casional dish OF baked stranger would not be alto
gether dstasteful-was designated to be the wearer
OF Papal coronet and the explorer was to take it,
Unhapply. however. its bearer tell among thieves.
who have not only appropriated the diadem but the
accompanying Papal brief well. leaving Captain
Martini to explain the incident best he 1t is
that. il King Mcnslik would be crowned by
Rome, lie had better to the ancient city him
self. And then, to make sure of always owning the
crown, he should leave it behind him safe keeping
vixen he returns to his own loved land.
With 10 children and little care the subjects OF
the late King of Burmah. it might be thought.
should not have been put about heir to the
throne. But there seems to have been most
cnlpable extravaganza. Twenty-tour sons died be-
fore their father and eighteen moro with him. and
there only forty-eight altogether ut the
lnenceInent six remained to be accounted tor. One
is u iunatic. four babies and is the present
king-Theebau: SO il the authorities had wasted
one prince more there would have been nothing
left but the babies the lunac to choose the next
King from. The ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS all to-
gether about the same date or disappeared alive.
Among the two who at time kept
Il prince OF Nepal and some Arab pirate chief
company in the State Prison In the fortress OF
Chunar. They had been sent to the government of
India to be taken care Of as being dangerous-hav-
ing twice nearly killed their father-but in the
niilder air of India turned their thoughts from
sassination and rebellion to croquet and tattng In
these accomplishments they considered that Eu-
succeeded in excelling. When not playing croquet
the exiled princes were tatting. and when doing
neither they sat over weak tea and discussed the
chances their being able to kill their father
That chance they never got. for Theebau. anticpat
ing disagreeable possibilities put them both OF
the way Theebau himself can hardly escape
sassinaton long, and except tor the babies aud
the iunatic. the whole family of ITO will be gone
At Chantilly there was buried on the Goth ult.
man OF some note in his way-Ihomas Car
fer, ST.. of the syndicate of Chantlly and the
...doyen' or father of French trainers. He may
racing, for he went from England to France
perintend the racing stable or Lord Henry Seymour
III 1880, three years before the foundation OF the
French Jockey Clubthat is, three years before the
first established himself at PorteMaillot. afterward
ut La Morlaye, "in the house now occupied by the
trainer OF the Lonray stud" whence he removed to
La Fourriere where he died. He q public well
mour. Baron de Rothschild NJ. Reiset and himself
He founded school OF jockeys and trainers,
including. besides the various Carriers related to
him, Tom aud Henry Jennings. j. bartholomew, Il.
Kent and II. Gibson. He trained six winners OF the
French Derby Lord II. Seymour's Franck Lydia
and vendred in 1886, 1897 and 1888 (Poetess, the
winner i'll 1871, was trained by r. Boyce); Baron de
Kpthschild' s Meudon in 1876; his own Experience.
IN lSi9 and NJ Resets Celebrlte in 1851 For many
years past he had given up business beyond train
ing few horses OF his own. He died at seventy
Tour years of age, having been just half century
connected with the French turf, after % previous
connection with the English and. nevertheless, u
French writer, who ought to know say of him -
deation of honesty and honor, and that perilous
ground called the turf, he gave rise to a sim
gle doubt as TO the uprghtness or his character"
Tie shade of Diogenes may ext1ngush his lantern,
the honest man having turned up where one would
least expect TO find him.