The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-22
The Youthful Groom Said to Be Really in Love
with His Betrothed, Which Is Regarded
as Unusual in Royal Alliances.
Phenomenon on a Long Telephone Cir
cult That Puzzles the Electricians.
Portuguese Newspapers Trying to Embitter
the DelagOa Bay Dispute-Counterfeit Of
Russian Money Which Pass Current.
PRINCESS sOPHIE's WEDDING.
Great Interest Taken I'm the Event by u
EnulisI, Poo,,lo-NInvasaar,fs OF fba Bride

Great Interest Taken I'm the Event by the
English Peopie-Movements of the Bride.
LONDON. Oct. 21.-The London news
papers, as well as those on the continent,
are engrossed with the coming royal we'd
ding at Athens Column upon column is
devoted to the subject. Histories and por-
traits of the bride and groom. accurate PEN
pictures of their daily lives, their habits,
and dispositions, long lists, growing more
full and complete daily, of the royal per-
sonages and others of high degree who will
be permitted to witness the ceremony;
these, together with detailed accounts of
all the arrangements for the wedding and
description of the presents already an
nounced, furnish the daily food of European
newspaper readers for the present.
The Duke of Sparta, who is to marry
Princess Sophie, is said to be an ideal
lover: he does nothing but talk of his bride,
and can scarcely conceal his impatience for
the arrival of the wedding day. He is
thirty-one years of age, and his bride is
nineteen. The wedding presents are of
enormous value, and there is every indi-
cation that the marriage will be happy
one-a rare circumstance n the annals OF
royal alliances.
One curious custom of German tradition
which still survives in tho Hohenzollern
family will be commemorated in q modified
form at the wedding in Athens. In earlier
and ruder ages the best man at German
wedding was allowed to remove the brides
garter when she retired on her wedding
night, and to keep it as a trophy. A Berlin
jeweler has just completed six gold garters,
set with diamonds, to signalize the survival
of this ancient custom. The garters are
identical in workmanship. Two of them
will be worn by the Princess on her we'd
ding day, and the other four will be pre-
sented to the four best men at the cere-
mony, as keepsakes. The brides garters
will be sent to the Royal Museum at Berlin,
to be added to the collection there of me-
mentoes of other weddings of the Hohen-
zOllern family.
The wedding ceremony will be one of the
most splendid ever witnessed. During the
ceremony old Byzantine chants will be
sung and Immediately afterward great
Te Deum will be celebrated, in which all
the bishops of the country will take part,
in magnificent vestments. The Persia of
Eschylus will be performed to music by
the hereditary Prince of Meiningen. and
the Philoctetes of SOphocles, with music by
Ferdinand Bender A great "Kreip," or
the direction of the Rector of the Athens
University, to which all GreeksYwho have
been members ofthe German c35tocfnical
institutes and military and art academies
are 10 Dt lUNltcu. DtltgdttS nuNc dlSo pccl
appointed from Constantinople and other
Turkish towns where Greek residents are
numerous, to proceed to Athens with pres
ents and loyal wishes from the Hellenic
subjects. on the day of the wedding. The
Sultan will be represented by high state
officer with suite.
Ex-Empress Frederick, accompanied by
her daughters. including Princess Sophie.
the fance of the Crown Prince of Greece,
viii arrive at Corinth OH the steamer I'm
peratrix on Thursday evening. They will
spend Thursday night on the steamer, and
on Friday will cross the Isthmus of Cor
inth to Kalamaki, where they will embark
on the war-ship Amphitrite. proceeding
on her way through the bay Of Salamis to
the Pieracus, the port of Athens A fleet of
Greek war vessels will escort the Amphi-
trite from Kalamaki to the Pieracus.
Emperor William at Genoa.
GENOA. Oct. 21.-Emperor William and
Empress Victoria Augusta arrived here
from Monza to-day. The imperial party
visited the German iron-clad KAISER" and
the Italian Barbettit Italia. On taking
leave of King Humbert, the Emperor prom
ised to return to Monza on Nov. II, on his
way back from ConstantinOple.
King Humbert gave Emperor William n
present for Princess Sophie. The Emperor
expressed admiration fosthe beauty of the
ornament, which he described as the per-
lection of Italian workmanship. The En-.
peror and Empress have embarked upon
the yacht Hohenzollern, but unfavorable
weather delays the sailing of the vessel.