Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

A SOCIETY for the promotion Of jew
ish studies has Just been founded I'm
Paris under the presidency Of Baron
dc Rothschild.
PRINCESS STEPHANIE and Grown
Prince Rudolph win be married by civil
ceremony at Brussels the religious rites
will be conducted at Vienna. The
young people are to live at Prague. .
The King of Siam, who visits this
country shortly, is one of about seventy
children. He was crowned in 1868,
when fifteen years old, and is quite an
amiable and well-informed sovereign,
EARL BEACoNsFrELD was never bet
ter than at the present moment. Health
and spirits are both excellent, and he is
so good a walker that he tires out any
lady friends who venture pedestrian ex-
ercise with him.
QUEEN LOUISE WILHELMINE FREDE-
RIKKA CAROLINE AUGUSTA JULIA, of
Denmark, although past sixty, is re-
markably youthful in appearance and
has been sometimes taken for the elder
sister of her daughters, Alexandra and
Thyra. The Queen is a devoted mother.
She is an admirable pianist and is fond
of music to enthusiasm. --G.
THE French Communists are growing
bolder every day. One of their organs,
the Egalite, publishes tho following
paragraph; cat the request of mum.
Der Of our readers, and in commemora-
ton of the workmen's blood which was
shed like water in April and May, 1871,
the Egaiite will continue to appear In
red during the two months that the red
flag of the Commune floated at the Hotel
de Vile of Paris.n
THE German Crown Prince and Prin.
cess have been objects of much pleas
ant feeling during their stay at Pigli.
An English lady who visited them not
unfrequently relates that it was delight
full to see I" Unseren Fritz" the hero Of
a hundred fights, in his domestic circle,
the companion and comrade of his
children, gathering bouquets of wild
flowers with fresh and healthy pleas
ure, which are borne in triumph by
father and daughters to their mother,
who has always a genuine English tastC
for country enjoyments.
THE brigands that lately captured
Col. SINCE have now seized DR.. Maul's.
a German naturalist, who was travalilf
through Albania and BessaraJn for
scientific purposes. The ransom de-
manded for the prisoner is So, 1Ju, be-
sides full assortment of trousnrs,
waistcoats, and jackets. Tho letter
forwarded by the brigands to lhe Ger.
man Consul at Salonica threatens 90
put the prisoner to death if thor de-
mand is not Immediately compiled with,
and promises, on the other hand, thaJ a
new suit of clothes win be pres cnted to
the Doctor if the ransom be paid forth
with. ...
AN exceptionally clever young man
has just been made Secretary of the
German Embassy in Paris. His naIla
is Baron Thielman, and he has written
some excellent books of travel in tae
Caucasus and Central America, and
a fine ancient and modern linguisl. He
fought through the Franco -Prussiuu
war, and distinguished himself at Sedan
by strange feat-the writing iu Him
doostanee on the field of battle vivid
account of Napoleon's surrender The
letter, which fell into the hands of the
French, produced a great sensation,
particularly as it was said to hive bgeu
the work OF common soldier.
THE admirers of Marshal MacMahou
will be sorry to hear that he is iu pecu-
mary difficulties. A few weeks AGO o
great part of the furniture of the Paris
residence of the ex-President was sold
by auction. The property disposed Of
included several valuable painting and
some rare old furniture Of the Louis
Quatorze period. The auction was
largely attended, and from every mouth,
without distinction of party, there fei
expressions Of respectful sympathy with
the old soldier who neither in the army
nor as chief of the State had ever turned
a farthing of the public moneys into his
own pocket,
THE Pope has been told by physiciars
as their unanimous opinion that it is
necessary for his health to quit the Vat.
lean and pass the summer where'h he can
avail himself Of sea-bathing. 4" You are
merely telling me to do what is impos-
sible," he answered, and no more was
said until a French physician renewed
the subject, and observed that the baths
were essential, and might be procured
within the precincts of the Vatican. So
the Pope consented to measures for
erecting bathing establishment for salt
water to be brought from Civita Vec-
CHA, and for other mineral waters to be
procured. r .g