The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-22
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Palestine celebration at Rome mex
month, as also, probably, the first per
formance of his "Lohengrin."
/ THE great English beauty now i,
Lady Gladys Herbert, the Countess Of
Lonsdale. Her loneliness is of the darb
Jewish type-she is called "he gypsy
TwENTY-sEvEN lawsuits are to bc
brought against the French Government
by the Jesuits, in the name of the TWEEN.
ty-seven establishments which they pos.
sess in France; and each of the directors
of the educational houses kept by the
Jesuits will address protest to the SUI
perior Council of Public Instruction.
GENERAL SToLER recently had mar
row escape from assassination at Kieff.
He was walking along street when he
felt something cold touch his cheek. He
turned suddenly and saw man armed
with a revolver standing by his side, who
at once hurried away, exclaiming: eek
cuse me; have made a mistake"
PRINCE RUDOLPH, of Austria, will
probably make wise and liberal EN-
peror. He has many high gifts; he is a
sharp and quick observer, who has been
educated in modern ideas, who fully APP
preciates the advance of modern science
and is willing to promote it. He has
much independence of judgment and
character.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, the Queens young
est son, who was born on April 7, 1858,
has been prevented, by constitutional
delicacy, from embracing any profession,
but has inherited, beyond any of his
brothers, his fathers tastes. He was
entered at Christ Church, Oxford, and
is a member of the University and a
Doctor of Civil Law. An English Prince
of the blood royal does not reside in the
college to which he is attached, but in a
house of his own. Prince Leopold, how
ever, had his own set among the stu
dents of his time, and might often have
been seen playing chess at the Oxford
Chess Club.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of Belgium's existence as an indie
pendent kingdom, an international mus
ical competition has been arranged to
take place in Brussels on the 25th and
26th of July and the 9Th and 9th of Au-
gust next respectively, for choral, or
chestral, brass instrumental, and "fan-
fare" performances. All native and
foreign military bands, choirs and or
chestral associations will be entitled to
compete for the prizes to be offered,
which will consist of golden medals,
varying in value between one hundred
and one thousand francs, and of sums of
money ranging from one hundred to
four thousand francs.
MRS. DERING, the wife of the Secre-
tary of the British Embassy at Berlin, is
a woman of nerve. At the tableaux Vi
wants, arranged at the palace in honor
of the Emperor's birthday, and attended
by the Imperial family and all the court,
one of the threads used to light the huge
candelabra broke and fell burning on
Mrs. Dering's neck, setting her dress on
fire. All the ladies near her jumped up
in horror, but the brave Englishwoman
never moved, and without speaking put
the fire out with her hands. She had a
severe burn on her chest. The EN-
Peror and Empress Immediately showed
their kind concern, and the Crown
Prince went up at once to express his
regret to her and congratulate her upon
her pluck and presence of mind.
OF the five daughters of Queen Vic
toria, the Princess Beatrice, the young
est, will soon have remained the longest
The Crown Princess of
Germany married at 18; the late Prin-
cess Alice of Hesse was married when
she was 10; the Princess Helen married
at 20; the Princess Louise, who had
until that time remained longest single,
when she married the Marquis of Lorne
was about the same age that her young
sister is-that is %. 1t is natural
enough that there should be gossip and
rumors about the welded fate of the
last of the quintet. Romance has not
been absent from the stories told about
her, but the truth seems to be that the
Princess has chosen, up to this time, to
be the conidante and companion of her
mother, the Queen, rather than to leave
Windsor, Balmoral, and Osborne with
out any of the daughters of the widowed
THE Duchess of Marlborough has
draped her rooms with Irish poplin in
order to give an impetus to the trade.
The London Queen says that at her
instance a special grant was made by
the Treasury for the draping of the
castle with the finest specimens of
brocaded poplin that the trade could
supply. The design selected represents
the royal arms in seventeenth century
style, surrounded by shamrocks. Her
Grace has also provided Blenheim
Palace with hangings of the same costly
material in crimson, the patterns con-
sisting of ducal coronets, monograms
and the Star of the Order of st. Patrick.
The Queen has had curtains made for
which are magnificent. They
are of GOLD color and thosa for Oshorna