The Springdale news., 1889-01-04
GOSSIP OF THE GREAT,


 THE Duchess of Cambridge pays we'll daily.
 Germany, has entirely given up alcoholic liquors.
 TIE 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 ot the imperial servants shall wear mustache
 GLADSTONE wishes to retire, but says he feels it his duty to remain in public fife 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 he 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 afix 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- cred from the shock caused to her nerves 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 Czar, as a memorial to his late parents, has devoted 100000 rubles, and an estate worth about 300,0 GOO rubles year, to the foundation ane maintenance of an in sttution for the blind at St. Petersburg, to be called the Alexander Marien Institute.
 TIE three German Emperors have re- ceived from the Berlinese the following sobriquets: The Kaiser Wilhelm l. that of ..der Greise" (the Aged) Kaiser Fred erick that of ''der Weisen the Wisei, while the present Emperor has been nick named der Reisen {the Gadabout.
 QUEEN VICTORIA has effected retrench- ments in her household expenses, which have resulted in saving of $l50,000 yearly, which her 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 tue title 0; Duke of Schleswig- Sonderburg- -Glucksburg, and in three pretty daughters. He was so poor that he could allow the girls only three dollars a month each p1n-money. But the girls got there all the same,a being now respective ly Empress of Russia, Princess of Wales and Duchess of Cumberland.
 PRINCESS MARIA THERESA, of Bavaria, combines an uncommon taste for travelling with passion for domestic pets, and as she insists on taking quite a menagerie of them about with her, the two things do not go very well together She is unmarried, and is attended Tn all her wanderings by a maid of honor and chamberlain. The care of the Princess cherished animals de- wolves on the latter funcuonary, whose position is no sinecure, as he has no fewer than fourteen of them to look after, inolud- ing several dogs, two magpies, an enor- nous rat and a dininutive bear.