The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1889-01-19
IN REALMS OF ROYALTY.

| WILLIAM, King of the Netherlands, 10 the
richest monarch in the world.
..QUEES VicToRA still uses the yacht
Elm which was built for her in 1S49
The Crown Prince of Greece dislikes
publicity, and often travels in third class
railway coaches.
DON LOUIS l., King of Portugal, con-
verses freely in English, French, Italian,
| Spanish, Portuguese, German and Swedish.
The mausoleum of the Emperor Fred.
erick, of which the cornerstone has just
been laid at Potsdam, will be a reproduc-
ton OF the Sepulcher Church at Jerusalem.
LEOPOLD, King of the Belgians, has
never signed a death warrant, and although
the statute has never been repealed, capital
punishment is practically abolished in
Belgium.
QUEEN KAPIoLANI's gold watch, presented
her by his Majesty, the King of Hawaii, was
recently stolen by an adrolt native thief.
When recovered the outer case, bearing the
inscription Of presentation, was missing.
The present German Emperor is not the
first Frederick III. of Germany. During
the period from 1440 to 1893 Frederick Ill,
surnamed "the Pacific" member of the
House Of Hapsburg, was Emperor Of the
old German Empire.
THE new Empress of Germany is the
eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, of
England. Bismarck is said to stand in mortal
fear of her, but if she is much like her
Queen mother he can doubtless appease her
with proper appropriations.
QUEEN VICTORIA has made sufficient prog
ress in Hindustani to hold short converse
tions with Mahomed Bakhs and Abdul
Kareem, who with the Imperial crown and
cipher embiazoned on their Indian chap
kans, always stand behind the royal chair.
ROYAL marriages are evidently iufec-
tious. When the royal marriage took place
recently at Turin over two hundred couples
wished to be united at the same hour, and
the force of officials at the municipality had
to be increased.
THE Czarina, it is stated, often designs
and even makes dresses for her younger
children and frequently takes their new
hats to pieces and trims them over accord
ing to her own taste. This hobby of her
Majesty is aheritage Of her economical days
as a Princess Of Denmark.
IT is, perhaps, not generally known. that
1t is absolutely essential that every maid of
honor at the English court should be a good
horscwoman and q correct reader of music
at sight. The favorite pursuits of the
Princess Beatrice are riding and trying
over new music in the form of duets; and
no "maid " is chosen who is not an adept in
both arts.
TAKING the royal family together, it is
found that the present sovereign, the good
Queen Victoria, with her aunts and her nu-
merous progeny, has cost the British Nation
935, 100000, or in the neighborhood of
s175,0O0,0O0 In the hundred years of their
national life, closing with the present adj
ministration, the American people have
paid their Presidents as salaries s., 900,0Ou
ALFONSO Kill, the infant King of Spain,
is described as large child and is appar-
emily healthy, but his face is that of an old
man. Until he IS seven he will be left en-
tirely in the hands of women, but from the
time he reaches that age until he is sixteen
he will have q tutor and masters. At
sixteen he will be presented to the Cortes,
and the Regent will place the reins of Gov
eminent in his hands.
THE imperial crown of all she Russias is
the finest ever worn by sovereign. 1t is
in the form of a Bishops inter and carries
on its crest cross composed of five of the
most beautiful diamonds ever cut support
ing the largest ruby in the world. Eleven
great diamonds in foliated arch rising
from the froct and back of the crown
support this cross and ruby, and on either
side is hoop of thirty-eight pearls, than
which there are no handsomer known.