River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-11-15
NOBILITY NOTES.

Mrs. BISMARCK is tall and very gray and
as fond of champagne as her husband
SULTAN MULEY HAssAN, of Morocco, is
about the most bloodthirsty potentate Of
modern times
THE Empress Of Austria is said to own
twenty pet horses and twice as many dogs,
after whose proper entertainment she per.
sonally secs every day.
THE Empress of Japan, it is said, is rapidly
becoming one of the best Informed women
Of her time. She is hard student OF Ger
man, Russian, French and Italian.
OLD Kaiser Williams widow is named
Augusta, the widow of Kaiser Frederick IS
named Victoria, and the wife of the present
Kaiser is known as Augusta Victoria.
DURING the Prince Of Wales recent visit
to Hamburg he initiated some wheelbarrow
races, with ladies in the barrows trundled
along by the highest English nobility.
AHE Princess Of Wales often sits in the
hall at Sandringham as the night falls and
watches the Goals reddening in the immense
fireplace for an hour or more, utterly OBJ
livious to all sights and sounds around her.
LOUIS. King of Portugal, is seldom to be
seen without cigar, and he converses flu
entity in English, French, Italian, Portu-
guese, Spanish, German and Swedish. he
Is pleasant, and tells ever so many anec-
dotes.
DowAGER EMPRESS VICTORIA, widow Of
Frederick Ill, has an annual income OF
$500, 200, $4,000 of which is derived from
England. She will be obliged to make Ger
many her nominal residence, and TO visit
Berlin every year
MILAN, of Servia, is probably the most i'm
pecunious king now in the royalty business.
A Berlin writer AYERS that his application
for aloan of s950,O00, with his life insurance
policy as collateral, was lately received by
q Vienna banker.
In the CONN OF the dead Emperor ex-Em-
press Victoria placed a small gold chain, TO
which three lockets were attached contain
ing miniatures which she had taken during
their courtship, and which he had always
worn until his last illness.
"VoN MoLTKE, the Silent" isn't at all ST
lent at home. He is, on the contrary, q
charming, lively, and amiable companion.
He is fond Of the wife Of his nephew, who
presldes over his household, and of her
children. He loves whist and roses; and Of
these flowers cultivates great variety.
FoR many years Queen Victoria has eaten
''grissini," a Turin speciality, instead OF
ordinary bread. 1t is something Ike baked
maccar oni, says Pteeddf,IU, and has been
sent daily from Turn by Piccirillo; but
since the establishment of 'grissini''
bakery in Charlotte street, Rathbone place,
her Majesty gets her daily bread from Lon
don instead Of Turin.
THE daughter Of the King Of ShOv has
recently married the eldest son of King
John, of Abyssinia, with a splerdor unparal-
leled in modern ceremonies. The crown
worn by the bride is regarded as the one
which decled the head Of the Queen OF
5heba. According TO the native records
It has been in the possession of the Ethiopian
Kings for twenty-five centuries.
BATHERs at the fashionable French water
ing places are gradually adopting Queen
Christmas manner of bathing. She is a
marvellous swimmer, making easily her
daily half ME in half an hour, but she is in
variably accompanied by swimming maid
Of honor and four bathers asa suite. Two
boats bring up the rear, and her Majesty IS
rowed back to shore when her fatigue Is too
great.