The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-09-10
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

kOHElGN GOSS1Fs
In England any one offering q re-
ward for stolen property saying that
"no questions will be asked" is liable
to forfeit $3.50 for every such offense, to
any common informer who chooses to
sue for it.
In Paris there is an association of
ladies who collect subscriptions for
what they call les pauvres honteuscs,
people who are in real want, but who
are too proud to beg. Cases are brought
before the committee of the ASSOCIATION
by the clergy aud others, and the mon
ey subscribed is exceedingly well en-
ployed.
Miss Wilberforce, the Indianapolis
adventures, who has been illustrating
the romance Of crime in the English
courts, and who is now under indict-
ment for perjury, is thirty-two years
old and very good-looking. She was
attired in court very effectively in black,
with great simplicity, but at the same
time elegance.
The Infanta Eulalia of Spain, a lass
OF seventeen summers, and an Austrian
Archduke, beardless boy, brother to
Queen Christina of Spain, are reported
to have fallen in love with each other
during the recent visit of the Archduke
to the Court of Spain. They will soon
be married, and Spaniards and Aus
TRANS are expected to make much ado
about the young people on the occasion.
"A the Windsor review the white
costume of the Princess Royal shone out
conspicuously by the side Of the Queen,
her mother, and she received a fair share
of the obstreperous greeting which
hailed the royal carriage on its first ap.
pearance on the grounds. The Princess
has altered little in face since she left
England. Her figure alone has ex-
banded from the slight and elegant SLIM
ness of the Princess Victoria, the Rose
Of England, to the more portlv and re-
spectacle dimensions generally assumed
toward middle age.
Lady Burdett-C outts is said to have
made an amicable settlement with her
relatives concerning her fortune. "Since
her marriage" says Olive Logan, ''she
has lived in more costly fashion than
ever before. The dinners she has given
in her Picadilly residence have formed
q marked feature of brilliancy of this
season, and they have been attended by
persons Of very high standing in the So
cial world, though British royalty has
held aloof. The slight is all the more
marked, as in former times there was
no subject in all the kingdom whom the
Queen loved more to honor than Bur-
dett- C0utts. As for Mr.. Bartlett, every
one agrees that he is the soul of chivaf-
rous devotion to his kind wife, and she
seems delighted with her handsome
American husband"
The case Of q London girl who mar
ried Frenchman residing temporarily
in that city illustrates the danger which
those American women run who angle
after French husbands. This wife was
quickly deserted. She followed her
spouse to Paris and was turned from his
door. She sought redress in the courts,
and learned that her marriage, though
regular and legal in England, was void
in France, because the consent of her
husbands parents had not been OBJ
tanned: By the Code Napoleon q youth
is never wholly his own master. He
cannot marry up to twenty-five without
the consent of his father and mother. If
living, or q family council if they are
both dead. But even if parents bring
no objection q Frenchman MARRYING
abroad under twenty-five and without
the regulations prescribed can go into
court and ask to have the marriage an
nulled, and no French cour, can refuse
it, because it is considered that until he
is twenty-five he is q minor, and there.
fore not competent to make the con-
tract.