Sharp County record., 1880-02-05
Foreign Notes.

The King and Queen Of Italy pro-
pose to visit the island of Sicily in great
pomp next spring for the purpose Of
stirring up the loyalty of the Sicilians.
Little Count Rantzau, Prince Bis
marck'S first grandson, was baptized on
Christmas Day. The Prince, it is said,
seems to be much pleased with his new
dignity of grandfather, and is daily in
formed of the progress of the infant,
about whose welfare he is much con-
cerned.
Mr.. Blennerhasset, M. P. for Ker-
ry, Ireland, is to introduce next session
bill to abolish the arbitrary marriage
regulations which compel marriages to
be solemnized before noon. This has
been great inconvenience, especially
to the working classes, and was intro
duced to prevent bibulous bachelors
from presenting themselves at the altar
in an intoxicated state, a danger which
has passed away.
The Count de Grimbergen, one of
the wealthiest noblemen of Belgium,
who died recently, had to invoke the in
teryention of the authorities to be dis
embarrassed of relations who wanted to
compel him to die with the rites of re-
igion. The fortune left by him is esti-
mated at about S4,000,000. Among his
legacies is one of 100000 for the con-
struction of q seaside residence for the
children of the public schools.
1t seems a great stride from simple
Mr.. to "his Grace the Duke" which
Mr.. Bentinck made lately on the death
of his cousin, the Duke of Portland.
He is young officer of the Guards,
aged %, and gets about $780, 900 a year
with his dukedOm under the will of the
late Dukes father. The great London
property around the Langham Hotel
devolves on the late Dukes nephew.
To be %, an English Duke, and have
100000 a year seems pretty good po-
sition in the world.
The Emperor of Germany sends
every Christmas a boar's head as a pres
ent to Queen Victoria, and q finer thing
in its way than genuine hare de sang
Her can not be conceived. For fourteen
Christmases, from 1887, it was the Gus
tom of King Ernest Of Hanover, known
and hated in England as the Duke of
Cumberland, to send one to each of his
high Tory friends in England. His list
was long one when he left England,
but when a man abandoned the creed
of Toryism in England his name was
eypunged. Among the latter were Sir
Robert Peel and the Duke of Welling-
ton, and in the end there were not above
two or three entitled to the boar's head.
The King of Denmark is greatly be-
loved as monarch and man. He is
more of a "citizen king than even
Louis Philippe. He has some knowl-
edge Of science, has a cultivated taste
for art, has the material interests of his
subjects at heart, chats in a friendly
manner with the citizen class on the
public promenade, and, it is said, sell
dom declines to stand godfather to the
child of any Dane who makes the re-
quest that he should do so. A Berlin
paper, which gives number of details
about the life of the royal family in Co.
penhagen, observes that "the Kings
daughters won, as maidens, an unusual
degree of popularity in their fatherland.
The good Danes were extraordinarily
proud of the beauty of their princesses,
and rejoiced heartily with them when
the Herr Papa whose civil list is of
very small dimensions, and who is COM
PEELED to be thrifty in his domestic ex-
penses, bestowed upon either daughter
a new dress Or gold ornament for
birthday gift"