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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1888.
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This young gentleman took some
what lax view of morality in general,
aad was living with a lady whose fin
GER was adorned with no wedding
ring, but who was nevertheless the
mother of his two children. The
father was kindhearted and UNI
worldly old man, and constantly i'm.
pressed upon his son the ACCESSIBILITY
of marrying the lady, and thus(ac
cording to French law legitimizing
his children. The son however did
not take to the idea, and at last the
anxious parent, deeming that he was
mt the point of death, summoned him
to his bedside, and declared that UNI
less he at once married his mistress
he would do something that his son
would afterwards regret. The son
remained obdurate, and the next day
his father sent for the cure and him
self went through the form OF mar
rage with the lady i'll question.
Having thus done what he consider
ed to be his duty, he died, and was
buried. His son then found that
his own children had been converted
iuto his stepbrothers, and inherited
with him and their mother equal
shares of the paternal estate. III he
is wise. man, therefore, he will at
once marry his fathers widow. But
he can hardly marry his stepbrothers.
So at least half of the property which
would otherwise have been his, has
been sacrificed to his obstinacy.
The Empress Augusta, who has
taken up her quarters as usual at the
Hotel Messner, i'll Baden-Baden, still
suffers a good deal of pain from her
injured leg, and has to be moved
about in chair from place to place,
whilst the railway carriage in which
she travels is specially arranged SO
that she can be carried in and out
without inconvenience. The eyes of
the vulgar crowd are carefully kept
away during her journeys as Her
Majesty has the greatest objection
that any strangers should witness her
inability to walk. 1t is a curious fact
that both the Empress of Germany
and the Empress of India should be
suffering at the same time from the
results of similar accidents, and that
one should be the mother of the
Crown Prince of Germany and the
other of the Crown Princess.
People in general must have been
greatly surprised at the news that
the Partisan press had been honoured
by Il special invitation to the
Coronation festivities in Russia. Ac-
cording to the announcements i'll
the Figuro, Gatlois and Erene-
ment, it appeared that special
envoy. one Nj. Corvin, had called Oh
the editors of those journals to re-
Quest the favour of their attendance
and to inform them that their eX-
penses would all he paid, that special
honours would he accorded them,
and that formal invitations would
reach them on certain day. These
three papers accordingly outvied one
another in clarifying the envoy. He
had such charming manners, such n
distinguished air; he was great
traveller, celebrated author; moth
ing was too good for him. But it
was awkward when the appointed
day arrived without Il sign of the
promised invitation, and nj. Corvln
turned out to be nothing but a very
practical joker. The GaalOis at
once wrote in indignant terms to
Prince Orloff, but the Fiaaro,
rather than confess itself hoaXed,
decided to send Albert Wolf to
Moscow at its own expense. And so,
in that quarter at any rate, the boxes
will not have been packed in vain.
The millennium must be at hand I!
The King of Bavaria has actually
Lift his retirement to preside at a
dinner party given in honour OF his
newly married relatives. He is sad
70 have received the guests in most
h,spitable fashion, and to have daz-
lied the company with the scintilla-
ton of his royal wit. Is it possible
that he is just recovering from the
b,neful influence of the music OF the
future? A little bird, moreover,
whispers in my ear that the dinner
party was followed in few days by
a lively ball, and then by theatrical
performance, at both of which His
Bavarian Majesty was pleased to
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