The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-30
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
>o'es OF Interest ny Wire and Maj, From
Beyond tho sea

bevond tho Sea.
w. lola, the author, IL a candidate for
me scat IN the Academy made vacant hv
the death Of Emile Augicr. =
If Is reported that Queen Victoria vii,
spend the coming winter in r,oronco ,,.,,,'
,'cr daughter, eN-Empress Fredcrick ~
Germany. '"'''SN' VI
""' "hAbLAyGH. who has been suffering
rom congestion OF the lungs. has recovered.
ne WIZ soon take sea VOYAGE with n view
10 rcgaining his full strength.
The Pope has sent to Miss Caldwell a
valuable present and an autograph letter
concentrating her upon her coming mar
rage TO Prince Murat.
'hf eight standard chants Of the Russo
'reek Church are original BYZANTINE airs.
Which have been preserved unchanged for
~ e"st ~" years, and probably 1000.
AMONG the exhibitors who have obtained
awards AT Paris are: The King of Holland
,or beer; the Duo d'Aumale, the Due de |
noh'pensier, Prince Galitlin and Cardinal |
LaNigcric. for wine.
TIE late sir Charles William skies was
the founder Of Englands great system Of |
postoilce savings banks. and il was in |
recognition OF that important public service |
inst he was knightcd.
THE death is announced of Robert Adair
one Of the Oldest Newspaper men in England.
al the age Of eighty-se,en years. He was
| the oldest stamp distributor in the kingdom.
| having been appointed sixty years ago bv
me poet Wordsworth. who was then AT the
mead Of That department for that country.
| ~ the Dominion Government is correctly
represented, it does not intend TO apply the
provisions of the Weldon Extradtion hill
until new eNiradtion treaty with our GOV
eminent il ratified This will be good news
! for the American colony Of bOOdlers.
SLAVERY goes on in the ncighborhocd Of
Zanzibar rs mcrrily as in the years past
and there is slave market i'm the city.
although the British East African Company
and the German explorers are said to be
making enormous preparations 10 break il
mp. Int 10 takes them long time 10 begin.
the merchants who carry on the slave traffic
are all Arabs, but il is said that rich firm
of traders every member of which is Eng
lish. furnishes all the capital for conduct
ing the business.
THE clergy generally are opposed to &
dancing. and there can be no doubt that
there are circumstances under which tie
exercise * injurious. One CLERGYMAN i'm I
Manitoba, however. dissents from his broth 2
rem ON this subject. He thinks dancing is u
hcalihfl and inyigorating if. he adds. in :
duged IN before breakfast as i'm the olden y
time. \ good deal Of modern dancing is.
Of course. done in the small hours of the '
morning. but this is not the indulgence the !
reverend gentleman endorses.
WHAT will the return of the Duke Of a
Nassau 10 the regency Of Luxembourg sig !
nifty; The old king Of Holland lets the re- n
eency drop from his failing hands. and y
when the Duke pick, il up Bismarck will /
Poe ON hand to take any advantage possible. !,
hrupp has already prepared 10 create a 4
grand cannon foundry there aud the spiked
helmet looks very large upon the horizon
just now. Yet II is by no means certain -
that the French would not resent Prus-
sian occupation Of LuNemburg as bitterly
as they resented il in 1861. =,
OSCAR WILDE is described rs having set "
tied down into sedatc literary mana .
strong. hroad-sh0uldcred. athletic fellow. ~
with no nonsense about him. and an cyi- fl
dent determination on his part 10 make fame 4,
and money. lie goes about London with an
ariniul of papers and with huge black II
thorn stick in his hand. He lectures now I,
anu lU'i. Nllt1 NltdOllN lnI the magazines. 4.
and edits the U0WdH'S JOrfd. II il said :,
that he shows positive genius in managing /,
"a large stan of feminine contributors. As II
q reviewer Of current literature he is thought /,
10 Dee extremely clever. :,
MANY men Of hieh rank in Europe are &c
engaged in trade. Prince Bismarck is an ,
enthusiastic timber merchant and paper 81
manufacturer. His powder mills are ycrv nj
profitable. The Duke of Fife is an active Of
partner in a London bank. The new King /,
Of Portugal owns and runs the facnce fac 4
tory of Caldas-Reinah. The ROYAL manu- +.
factor, Of porcelain at Dresden furnishes a in
considerable portion of King Alberts pri- -
Nate income. while the hOrse-breedmg cs- GO
of the Grand Duke Of Mecklcn- IN
hurs-Schvcrn places him in the foremost if
RANK of hOrsc-dcalcrs in Europe. Nh
ALCArRAz Island. on the west coast of NJ
Africa. is unnhabited, but has valuable de- "
posts of guano. Two years ago France re
thought it worth while 10 take possession of III
HE island, and four men were set ashore there 81
ly order of the Governor of Senegal 10 main q
ain the rights of the French flag and pro- l'
sioncd for six months. Through most re- .
carelessncss the circumstance -
passed ont Of the minds Of the authorities GO
md no further attention was given 10 the ai
our men on the barren rock. Recently 1i
document iishcd out of a pigeon hole re- pu
allied the matter. \ vessel was sent 10 the III
-land. but only the skeletons of the men Nv
we're found. They had persisted Of starya- NV
ion. "i
ANOTHER royal wedding is that of the Ina
nanta Blanca. Of spain. with Archduke err
.cOp0ld salvador of Austria, which took ~, H.
lace at Castle Frohsdorf. near Vienna. on IN,
and was attended by a great by
of French R0yalists and Spanish m;
artists. The bride. naughty Spanish Sc
eauty. much resembling her father. Don err
arlos. was given away 10y her brother, Don
aimc, two year, her Junior. The infantas m,
.lNra and Beatrice were bridesmaids, and ",
me- best man was Archduke Charles Louis. ON
rOthcr Of Archdukc Francis, who is soon fin
% marry Archduchess Valerie daughter Of s,i
Emperor Francis Joseph. Thirty French vi,
md spanish cavaliers d'honneur sat down tal
q the wedding breakfast. an
OrrO, the mad King of Bavaria, i thus IT,
described 10y one who has seen him at Fur oi
ienried Tall and almost as gigantic in Fri
tature a. his brother. the late King Ludwig. rel
lis appearance il sufficient 10 starlc any "N
me- who sees him for the first time. His I0'
air il long and unkempt, and his bushy lin
rOwn beard reaches down below his waist.
here j. a kind Of wild, weird look III his v''
YES the gaze of which remains sieadfastly &c
Ncd straight ahead into empty space. The M
nj, person who can succeed in bringing fa,
lean of intelligence 10 his face il the sixty siu
ear-Old Nine. Marie. who was his nurse sol
hen child. She j. The only person who is
crmittcd to speak 10 him. d
Tn; MARS BUdgct remarks that str
yer since Mr.. Gladstone agreed to convert gr'
is separatist home-rue scheme into I'M
lnistS hOmc-rule scheme the tide began 10
arm aud ''unonism' on the part Of any H..
.al liberals became either sheer tOryism or " ~,