The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1881-06-25
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Baroness Burdett- Coutts was re-
ceived in chilling manner by the Queen
at the last drawing-room.
Twenty large public buildings have
been constructed in Rome since 1870
for Government use, at an outlay of
S25, 100000.
AT a recent horticultural exhibition
in London, the new orchid from India,
with snow-white flowers, sent bv Mr..
Titley, was bought for a thousand dol
lars by Mr.. William Bull.
When at home at Hawarden on
Sunday Mr.. Gladstone always reads the
lessons for the day, in the parish
church, with modesty and nervous hesi-
tation. His voice is mellow, and his ex-
preston poetic, and people go miles to
hear the Premier perform this duty.
Lord Denman, a friend of the do
nestle quadruped creation, drives a
horse about the streets of London that
wears spectacles. The animal was
found to be near-sighted, and its owner
has successfully tried the experiment of
remedying the defect in the same way
as is done with human beings.
The ex-Empress Eugene has de-
cided upon the final resting place of
her late husband and son. Sheintends
to build church on the estate which
she has bought, some fourteen miles
from Chiselhurst, and thither the two
tombs are to be transferred from the
little chapel of that village. al
Grown Prince Rudolph gave to his
bride wedding present of a charming
little pony carriage ornamented with
gold and two uncommonly small ponies
of the most beautiful shape and color.
This little equipage has been sent to
the castle where the young pair are
spending their honeymoon.
There is bit of romance yet in the
Austrian Empress heart though she is
credited with being such an Amazon.
She cherishes in beautiful jeweled box,
not u stone of great price, but little
faded nosegay of edelweiss, that noun
tain flower, white and delicate as a
snowflake, which Austrian peasants at
tach to their button-holes as sign of
love. The little nosegay was given the
Empress by her husband the time they
were betrothed.
--Apropos of the Royal Austrian mar
riage, it is related that when the Queen
of the Belgians, mother of the bride,
crossed the Belgian frontier at her mar
riage she wore bonnet trimmed with
artificial grapes. Being tired with her
reception, she took the bonnet off and
laid it on one side, when an officer of
the escort, anxious for a souvenir of the
day, surreptitiously picked off a grape.
A comrade followed suit, the example
spread, and soon all the trimming was
ripped off, next the strings disappeared,
and lastly the straw itself, bit by bit.
When the Queen looked for her bonnet
it had vanished, and she resumed her
journey with very dubious opinion of
her daughters future subjects.
The abolition of primogeniture has
had the greatest effect, within the pres
ent century, in emptying the chateaux
and castles in France. Fortunes have
so often been divided down that there
are fewer great incomes than there were
among the French aristocracy. 1t thus
happens that French nobleman who
inhabits chateau may only have fur
nished one nook of it, and his foomy
stables may have only one or two horses
at the stalls. To Withstand the effects
of the abolition of primogeniture, many
French families agree to enjoy their
revenue in common. But full chateaux,
with several generations of relatives in
them, even under the methodical life of
Frenchmen, may not be permanently
successful.