Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

"SANCTUARY SHOES" are advertised
in the Church Times aud other English
ecclesiastical journals.
A LADY, Madame Vaganoff, has been
officially charged by the Russian Gov
ernment to 60 to France to study re-
formatory and charitable institutions,
with q view to the possibility of estab-
fishing them in Russia. Madame Vaga-
noff lately arrived in Paris
A SCHEME has been drawn up, with
the approval of the Canadian Govern
ment, for the establishment ef an army
reserve, to consist of 10000 men drawn
from the Dominion militia, who will be
liable to service in the Dominion, Eng
land, or abroad, in the event of Great
Britain being involved in war.
THE Baroness Burdett- Coutts, the
richest and most benevolent of English
ladies, is rather below the medium
height, with prominent nose, and hair
brushed tightly over the temples in the
good old fashioned way, and a bad COM
plexion, which makes her look as if she
drank TO excess, although she is very
abstemious. She has never married,
and hates fortune-hunters.
THBRE is likely to be good deal of
trouble over the marriage of the Prin-
cess Frederica Of Hanover. The Guelph
party in Germany openly accuse Queen
Victoria of having done her best to IA
cilitate it in the interests of Prussia, as
such q marriage will be taken over there
as a sign that the Duke of Cumberland's $
pretensions to the throne are tacitly
abandoned, such DlcsaLiance (as it is
thoughD being impossible for the sister
of sovereign.
1T is computed that the sum total of
the cost of the last war between Ger
many and France was 90, 100000, 900.
A French economist does not share the
opinion expressed in some quarters that
Germany did not profit much by the
war. After pointing to many things
which the Indemnity has enabled Ger
many to accomplish, he says that there
is fund of S300,0O0,OOO unaccounted
for, which he presumes has gone into
the famous war reserve fund.
A CLASS for teaching the art of read
ing aloud, founded by the Prefect of
the Seine, is now open in Paris. Le-
gouve's method of instruction will be
adopted, and one of the professors NOM
mated is Mile. Delaporte, an actress of
the Gymnase. The design of the insti-
tuition is not so much to provide public
readers and reciters as to bring the art
of reading aloud, as an accomplishment,
to its perfection, where it is on q level
with that of music and dramatic action.
THE regulations within the Czar's
Winter Palace are now so strict that DR..
Botkin, the Czarina's body physician,
had to wait all night before he could get
pass to enter her apartments to make
a professional visit, and the medicine
which he had sent was also kept out sew
eral hours before an order for its admis-
sion could be obtained. All those resid-
ing within the palace are under surveil-
lance, and a record of their doings has
to be furnished to the Governor every
twenty-four hours-so, at least, says the
st. Petersburg correspondent of the
Vienna Freie PreSSe.
LORD HARRINGTON is the eldest son
of the Duke of Devonshire and Lady
Blanche Georgiana Howard, a daughter
of the Earl of Carlisle. He is one Of the
richest noblemen in the Kingdom, and
| is favOrite and leader in society. AT
one time there was rumor in the air
that the House of Cavendish was about
to have the honor of an alliance with
that of Hanover; but this story had nc
| foundation save in the midst of those
imaginative persons who pass their lives
in putting two and two together and
making five. Of later years Lord Hart
ington has been given up by scheming
dOwagers, and left to enjoy his whist in
peace. He is now forty-seven.