The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-07-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

THE Baroness De Rothschild recent,
gave ball in Paris which cost S22, 1000
KING HUMBERT of Italy and "Unse
Fritz" OF Germany are warm persona
friends.
FOREIGN ladies presented to tn,
Queen do not kiss her hand, but merely
courtesy and move off sideways so al
not to turn their backs upon royalty.
THE Queen of Sweden is suffering SC
severely from long-seated disease Of
the heart that only the slightest hopes Of
her final recovery are entertained al
Stockholm.
LADY MARY HAMILTON, whom the
Pope granted divorce from the Prince
of Monaco some time ago, is again mar
ried. The divorce was applied for that
this marriage might take place.
AT the opening of every new Parlia-
ment in Italy each member receives a
new medal commemorative of the occa-
sion, struck specially at the royal mint.
The medal for the fourteenth Parlia-
ment is now being coined.
IT is not safe to look like one of the
professional London beauties. A lady
was mobbed in Hyde Park, the other
day, the crowd blocking up the walk in
front of her chair, and some persons
standing on the seats to look at her,
and all because she resembled the Jer-
sey Lily.
EARL CowPER, the new Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland, who has been very
enthusiastically received in Dublin, is in
the prime of life, with most agreea-
BILE presence, and has the advantage of
princely fortune, with no family and
a very handsome and charming wife.
She is also great sportswoman. Few
men, it is said, can throw salmon fly
with more dexterity, and many stays
have fallen to her Henri rifle on the
Poiack Mount or in the Isle of Null.
There is not better game shot in Eng
land than Lord Cowper.
THE monks of La Grande Chartreuse
are said to be likely to seek local habi-
tation in the North of Ireland, in conse-
quence of the laws obliging the reli-
gious orders to secure State authorize
ton. The historic community will carry
with them the mystery and manufacture
of that exquisite liquor for which every
amateur of the table has, some time OF
other, thanked the Brotherhood of st.
Bruno. This liquor, of which they have
guarded the secret so long and so
closely, brings the order an annual rev.
enue of many millions of francs, almost
all of which is laid out in benefactions,
the rule of the fraternity being ex-
tremely austefe.
IT is stated that Mr.. Gladstone has
taken Office in direct opposition to the
advice of his medical advisers. This is
probably the case. Other men have
been Prime Ministers when past seventy,
but they have not combined the func-
lions of First Lord of the Treasury and
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that,
too, after such a terrific strain as the
Midlothian campaign. Had Mr.. Glad
stone been content to take office as Pre-
mier, with seat in the Lords, there is
no saying how long he might not have
held the position so far as health is con-
cerned, but it is highly improbable that
he will now be able to do so. About
seventeen years ago he broke
down in a manner which for
brief while occasioned great alarm to
his friends, although very little was
publicly said about it, and showed one
evening painful symptoms of an over
wrought brain. Many of his friends
hope, for the interests of himself and
his party, that after this session he will
be induced to resign the CHARACTERISTIC
Of the Exchequer.