The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1880-12-24
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

y FOREIGN GOSSIP.
KING OSCAR, of Sweden. gave 1ao,o 600
crowns toward the expenses of Nor.
denksjold's expedition. The total cost
of the expedition is said to have been
419,177 crowns. Nordenksjold's ac-
count of his voyage is shortly to be pub
ished in German at Leipsic.
TIE Count de Moltke, the Danish
Minister in France, has one o. the finest
hotels in Paris, and the best equipped
carriages. The Countess de Moltke
adores snowy and expensive clothing,
which, IS she is avery pretty woman,
suits her. In society she bears the
sobriquet of sc the golden pheasant"
owing to the fact that her plumage is
usually brilliant. ..s,e.s-
THERE was q remarkable ecene In
Paris on the arrival from New Caledonia
of the Communist female lsAder, Louise
Michel, with the last aGsh xlthe amnes-
tied. NJ. "..olefort and u. C1elQeacaaR
kEr.yd her, women threw thens&v ~ On
hsr neck, and there was altogether ?
gushing scene till NJ. Rochefort got her
into cab. Many of the people had red
ribbons in their buttonholes or dresses.
THE Chief Justice of England is paid
$40, 900 year, the Chief Justice of the
Common Pleas and the Chief Baron
49,, 900 each, and the Master of Rolls
(who has not to 60 on circuiD S3O,OcO.
The puisne Judges are paid S25 900, out
of which they have to pay probably
about $4,000 year for circuit expenses.
Besides this, all the Presidents of Di-
visions have extremely valuable patron
age.
The scaffoldings are still up around
the towers of Cologne Cathedral, and
the Cologne Gazette says, that it will be
necessary to keep at work upon them all
next year, and much, too, has to be done
in the way of glazing windows and form
ing and fitting artistically wrought doors.
The Gazette puts the whole cost when
completed at S6,5OO,0OO, which was
about the cost of St. Paul's in London.
LADY BURDETT-CoUTTs has been in
vested with the white and purple liveries
of the Guild of Haberdashers and made
free and accepted draperess. She is
the first woman since the days of Eliza
beth who has been admitted within the
charmed circle of the guild. The vest
ure is a sort of pinafore, mantle and
robe, and a richly embossed gold medal
lion was hung round her neck. She
made a long and excellent speech, in
which there was no sign of effort.
IT is regarded as contrary to etiquette
in India for any private individual or
any subordinate officer to pass the car
rage of Governor. Lieut.. Vernon was
returning from the Poona races, and
passed the carriage of the Governor of
the Bombay Presidency, who was airing
himself, surrounded by native troopers.
A trooper was sent after the Lieutenant
to order him to come back. He refused
and struck the trooper; therefore is he
to appear before court martial.
The new Empress of Russia is said by
those who know her best to be woman
of head who will make her influence
felt. if the Gar 8 life is spared a few
years. She fAa very good friend and a
vindictive enemy, as Count Adlerberg
has, to his sorrbw, learned. Russians
like the idea of Russian Empires
whose policy it will be to foster the att
German feeling at court and il the
schools and universities. Nihilits are
much gratified to see afurtherelement
of disunion introduced into thsImperial
family by the elevation b the Grand
Ducal status of the second-dass Roman
offs who are springing up about the
Gear.