Omaha daily bee., 1888-06-17
ROYALTY.

The king and queen of the Netherlands
will spend the sun mer at Loo This is much
better than spending it at bacarat.
Prince Albert Victor, who is to be made an
LII. ID. BY Cambridge university this week,
is learning TO play the violin. He ought to
receive the degree of fiddle ID. ID.
Prince Roland Bonaparte read a paper at
the Anthropoogical congress in New York,
in which he contended that the Chinese were
the original discoverers Of America.
The Emperor William, it is said, used only
two swords and one sabre throughout his
warlilxe career, but the number Of victims in
his private graveyard is left to the imagina.
ton.
The Duke of Westminster recently recalled
an invitation TO dinner that he had sent TO
Mr.. Spencer because that gentleman at.
tended the dinner given by the Eighty club
TO Mr. Parnell.
Lady Londonderry Is endeavoring to make
green the fashionable color in London. Ma
ture and fashion on both sides of the ATTAIN
tic are combining just at present, fguratively
speaking, to bite their thumbs at Mayor
Hewitt.
The crown prince of italy will be the
guest of Queen Victoria at Buckingham pal
ace the latter part of this month. Her
majesty of England will confer upon him the
Order of the Garter, and of course, an
"Iniun' shawl.
The crowned heads of Europe will not at
tend the Paris exhibition next year, but Ger
tain dusky potentates from distant lands
will be present. King Norodeen of Cam
bodia and the king of Assam will journey in
state to the French capital
The czar recently ordered that all Russian
orders and medals should rank above foreign
decorations. Kaiser Frederick has responded
by directing that the Russian order of St
George and the Austrian order of Maria
Theresa are to be worn before any Prussan
civil order.
Tie prince of Wales has donned the tall
white hat as a portion of the fashionable
Fl. and his eldest son both wore black silk
hats, cutaway coats of rough material, warn
ished boots, tan colored gloves and a red
Carnationa q u
The princess regent of Brazil, who is now
making favorable impression as administra-
trix, is forty-two years old. She never signs
her full name, which is Isabella Christine
Leopoldine Augustine MicheliGabrielle
INapudclle SOlLdBue 1rlHCcSS lulperldl VI
Brazil and Countess d'Eu:
The Berlin Reichsapzeiger (otficial gazette)
announces that the kaiser has promoted
Baron Won Roeder, chamberlain and master
of the ceremonies to his mhjesty, to the post
of introductcur des ambasSadeurs at the i'm
perial court. The political situation IN this
country remains unchanged.
The beautiful young Hessan princess who
has just been married 10 Prince Henry of
Prussia, is known here and in England as
Princess Irene, but in Germany she is al
ways called Princess Ella. She is the most
| popular member of a rather unpopular family,
| but her personal charms and worth would
make her an idol anywhere
Some time ago the Zil-es-Sultan (the
| Shadow of the Sultan), the eldest son of the
/ Shah of Persia was degraded from his post
| of ruler of almost half the empire and the
| command of separate army. 1t now is dis
| covered that he had leanings toward England,
| and the shah's course was in consequence of
| intrigues of Russla.
The duke of Aosta, who is to marry Prin-
| cess Lettia Bonaparte in September, has but
| two lives between him and the Italian throne
| king Humbert and the prince of Naples
The match between the duke and the prin-
| cess is what is known as a ''love match, )" but
| Its political effect is important The Bona
| parties are delighted that the sister of Prince
| Victor Napoleon is making so brilliant an
| alliance. In certain contingencies the con
| nccton might have an important influence on
| the affairs of France. The duke and his wife
will maintain kind of vice-regal court al
| Turin.
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