Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-02-27
GOSSIP OF THE GREAT.

HE Duchess of Cambridge pays a we'll
known vocalist $4,000 year to sing to her
daily.
IT Is stated that the.Emperor William, Of
Germany, has entirely given up alcoholic
liquors.
THE Prince of Wales has been learning
Magyar, and recently made brief speech
in that tongue.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has renewed his grand
fathers order that none OF the imperial
servants shall wear mustache.
GLADSTONE wishes to retire, but says he
feels it his duty to remain in public life until
the Irish question is definitely settled.
EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH, Of Austria, has
expressed his annoyance over the report
which has been spread abroad to the effect
that ne smokes two-cent cigars.
IT is said that the Sultan of Turkey
aspires to literary career, and has ordered
the poet-laureate of the Empire to afdx the
royal signature to his poems hereafter.
The Empress Frederick is collecting all
the obituary notices of her husband. From
papers printed in English she has received
5000, from Germany 5000 and from France
1000.
WHEN Queen Victoria went recently
from Windsor to Osborne she took a num-
Der of her favorite cats with her, and now
every English lady takes her cats with her,
from town to country, or country to town.
THE Sultan has been so pleased with some
music of Sir Arthur Sullivan's, sent to him
by the Duke Of Edinburg, that he has sent
to Sir Arthur the decoration of the Order
of the Medjideh. He has also received an
order for new opera.
THE Emperess of Russia has not recov-
ha Oh cod 70 har
by the recent railroad accident in which
she so nearly lost her life. She can not
sleep, and grave fears are entertained that
her health has been permanently injured.
THE Gar, as a memorial to his late
parents, has devoted 100000 rubles, and
an estate worth about 300, 600 rubles year,
ito the foundation and maintenance of an in
stitution for the blind at st. Petersburg, to
be called the Alexander-Marien Institute.
TIE three German Emperors have re-
ceiyed from the Berlinese the following
sobriquets: The Kaiser Wilhelm L that Of
s'der Greisen ithe Aged) Kaiser Fred
erick that of ssder Weise' the Wise),
while the present Emperor has been nick
named der Reisen (the Gadaboutl.
QUEEN VICTORIA has effected retrench-
ments In her household expenses, which
have resulted in saving of $50, 900 yearly,
winch ner Majesty puts IN her private
purse. The Radicals intend to insist on an
inspection of the royal household accounts
when the application is made to Parliament
for provision for the children of the
Prince of Wales.
Thirty ODD years ago there was poor
drawing master near Frankfort, who re-
joiced in the title of Duke Of SchiesWig-
Sonderburg Glucksburg, and in three
pretty daughters. He was so poor that he
could allow the girls only three dollars a
month each pln-money. But the girls $ got
there all the same, being now respective
" Empress of Russia. Princess of Wales
and Duchess of Cumberland.
PRINCESS Maria THERESA, of Bavaria,
combines an uncommon taste for travelling
with a passion for domestic pets, and as
she insists on taking quite menagerie OF
them about with her, the two things do not
70 very wen together She is unmarried,
and is attended IN ALI her wanderings by
maid Of honor aVd chamberlain. The
care Of the Princess cherished animals de-
yolves on the latter functienary, whose
position is no sinecure as he has no fewer
than fourteen Of them 70 look after, includ-
ing several dogs, two magpies, an euDE-
sensls rat and uiminutive bear.