The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-29

Of high order. Hebrew history aSounds
wit many similar i.isra c.
The best eviiencs Of the evil effects Of in
tarmerrlage Of kin, says 3 well-knowR
writer. is 70 re had BY an examination Of
the records Of the royal families Of Europe.
Indeed, at the present moment there is
scarcely a slngle royal family IN Europe
which Is not afflicted with some hereditary
inhrmity, produced S a rule by too frequent
intermarriages between near relatives for
several hundred years past. which as re-
suited IN the ImpOve ishment and vitiation
OF the blood Heretical and REASONABLE
though It may appear from a European
point OF view 70 advance such theory
there is no doubt bat the blood royal means
tainted blood, and that, bota from a moral
and physical point of view, the bloOd of the
peasant classes is Of far more generous aud
healthy quality than that If the aristoc-
racy and OF royalty. In order 70 become
convinced thereof, 1t is but necessary TO
take up the Almanach de Gotha and to
glance over the list Of those born under the
shadow OF throne.
The House OF Lords, says DIR. John c.
Mott, would long since have been extinct
had not the crown necessarily manufact-
ured mobiles from out Of the sturdy sons of
the people.
The Prince Louise, the bride Of Lord Fife,
as also her sisters, all have the unmistak-
able Guelph face, or rather the heavy eve
Ids. receding chins, and mOurnful, doe-like
eyes, which the Duke # ke1t alone had of
all George Ills Children, and transmitted
70 the whole large group of his descend
ants. But they inherited from their lovely
Danish mother extremely clear and fine
compilations
Lord Fife Is near 40, but looks younger,
and is always thought of IS a young man.
de began his parliamentary life as an
earnest radical, and, though ne has now
become unlonIst, there is no partisan AMI
mostly against him. He speaks very well.
has handsome face and glre, is an excel
lent Landlord, and is fairly wealthy man.
as great mobiles go. II is thought none the
worse or him that he is partner In the
banking firms of Henriques & Co. and
Scott q Co.; or that his investment in
Lieolgs coca wine alone nets him a hand
some yearly income. Nor as it counted
against him that the founder of the
noble house Of Fife made his
have been good AMI sound ''in all respects
or William Duff, who. in l404, began the
noble line Of Flies, would not have made
money. Perhaps the selection Of an E glish
Teer instead OF another Scot would have
been even more satisfactory, but there was
none available of sufficient station and re-
pute, and, as an English writer puts it,
1.-THE choice Of Lord Fife is vastly preferable
to that of any German importati ~ Better
a British subject than a foreig a object
In tie Hohenzoilerl case not only was
the late emperor suffering from the heredi-
tary faint OF scrofula, but his son Villa u.
tue present emperor, is hereditarily deaf,
aud was born with a mere shapeless ball of
flesh where the right hand ought to be.
The emperor's only sister is the Grand
Duchess of Baden, and Of her two sons,
both fod NOT L.
developments. The malady can, in truth
be traced all through the "Almanach de
Gotha" among descendants of the Car
Paul. The disease only showed itself in tue
Empress Augusta when she had advanced
in life, since when she has worn high dresses.
and frequently was not visible to the public
for months at a time.
1t is recalled now that Bismarck, who
was already the chief man in Prussia. In
1858, strenuously opposed the marriage of
the crown prince with the English princess,
saving that he was against any blood alli-
ance with those scrofulous Guelphs,n The
existing situation Is strange retributive
comment on that utterance Scrofula. or
that worse allied disease with which so
many royal strains of blood are contami-
mated, lays heavy hand on the Fl .henzoi-
lerns; but the faint has not come alone
from England. The present aged Dowager
Empress of Germany, mother of the
emperor. has been victim of
hereditary scrofula, or cognate
malady, for many years. She got
it from her mother, Marie Paulowna. wac
was a daughter of the crazy Car Paul,
who was one of the most thoroughly diseased
men of his generation. All of Pauls
daughters transmit ed the faint to their
desce Idants. One of them, Anne Paulowna,
was mother of Ae present King of Holland,
and recent death of both his so IS and
the ext notion of his male line are at
tributed to this. In the male Romanoff
line the same malady caused the death of
the czarowitz, who was the elder brotner of
the present IT, and now renders it very
doubtful if the preseat youthful czarowitz
will ever reach manhood.