The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-02-05
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Prince GoRrcuAxorF and Count
Arnim, Bismarck's two best enemies,
are both spending the winter at Nice, in
the same hotel.
MARRIAGE is expected to take place
between tho hereditary Grand Duke Of
Baden and the Princess Victoria Of
Hesse. Darmstadt, q daughter Of the
Princess Alice Of England.
The lady stewardess Of the household
Of the young princess who is about to
marry the grandson Of victoria aud
OF Wilhelm, Is great granddaughter Of
William vOn Humboldt.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, on
his 10Th birthday told his physician that
he would make him count it he
brought him safely to his SOth. lie
kept the promise and made another,
namely, to make the doctor prince il
he brought him to the Goth birthday.
An American recently in Paris rang
the bell ut the Morgue and handed to
the attendant q letter containing bis
name, address, and the statement that
he was about to put an end to his life in
this way that his friends might not be
troubled with details, and while the
letter was being read, deliberately shot
himself through the heart.
Ar tho festivities of the recent royal
deer drives in Scotland, reel dancing
and the making of ''frce forestors'' were
two of the features of amusement. Free
foresters are made by smearing the in.
tiividuals with stays blood. In the case
OF a lady touch sufiices. Mrs. Corn
wallis West, who is q fine reel dancer,
was among those honored. a.,
IT has been the fashion to regard Bel
GUM as q model country, but Florence
Niyhtingale's sister, Lady Vernsy, writ
ing in the Contemporary Reciesc, gives
no very pleasant picture of its rural as.
poets. The scattered villages, she says,
lie very far apart, and Belgian villages
arc peculiarly wretched looking, the
dwellings one.storied and miserable, the
few cottages often mere mud novels
vegetables running to the very door,
with no path up to it, and not single
flower; the barelegged, bareheaded
women evidently too ground down by
bard work in the fields, and anxiety for
The bare necessities OF life, to care for
even strip Of garden. II flowers were
to I've seen, they were at q drinking.
house or at the railway stations.
The failure in his old ago Of Mr..
tlerhi; ono of the kindest and most lib
cral.minded of men, will excite wide
spread sympathy. For the last forty
years he has been one of the most prom.
inent men in England, and Mechi's
magic paste and razor-strops have been
scarcely less renowned than Tiptree
Hall, bis model farm near London.
Some twenty years ago Mr.. Mechi un.
.warity became connected with q joint
stock bank which failed disastrously
and let him In for 4 heavy sum; 8 blow
from which, It is likely enough, he never
recovered. He was almost as well
known to agriculturists out of England
rs to those init, and visitors of the first
distinction tlocked to his farm from all
parts Of the world. Mr.. Mech is de.
seconded from the hair dresser Of Queen
Caroline, wife Of George H., who &C.
ccnpanied her when che came to reside
in, England. .
Tue art Of advertising has been car
ried TO : pretty high point in this coun.
try, but it has been left for an English
firm to "take the cake" The British
Government takes its decennial census
during the coming year, and the plan
which it has adopted is to leave blank
form with every-householder on 4 Ger.
tain Saturday night, to be filled in by
him BY Monday morning, when the
forms are to be collected. This will re.
qujre several MILLIONS of blanks, costing
something like half a million of dollars,
b one mercantile house thought the
o prtunity Of getting its wares brought
"a he attention of every family in the
ka.gdom worth this little fortune, and
offered to furnish all the blanks needed,
provided it be allowed to print its ad.
,ertisement on the back. The Govern.
!. ment refused the offer, and thus has dc.
cidsd to make her Majesty's subjects
pay for what they might have had 70,
nothing. = = -