Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-05
PEACE AND PLENTY
Predicted for the New Year by Euro
pean MOnarchs in Addresses.
TIE YOUNG KAISER'S GENEROSITY.
Much Sympathy for the TOung Belgian
Kings Personal Loss by Fire.
OTTER FOREIGN NEWS OF INTEREST



LONDON, January -rCopyright. THE
speeches at the New Year receptions at the
various European courts have not been of
much interest or importance. Ali, of
course, protessed confidence in a continu-
ance of peace, and President Carnot added
that France has the power as well as will to
prevent war; but the Gar, upon whom the
peace of Europe really depends, has not
yet spoken. His Russian Majesty cannot
De particularly happy just now. He has
been suffering again from the effects of an
influenza attack, but the foreign newspapers
unanimously refused to accept that simple
explanation, and his illness was variously
attributed to poison, morphine, electric
shock, gunshots and dagger wounds; while
one enterprising Paris paper placed His
Majesty in bed and issued bulletins. But
if the imperial body be fairly we'll, the
mihd is i'll at ease, for it is beyond doubt
that fresh and dangerous Nihilist plots have
been recently discovered, and there is no
reason to discredit the rumor that several
notable officers of the Russian army have
recently hanged within the precincts of the
great fortress prison of St. Peter and St.
Paul.
THE GRACIOUS YOUNG KAISER.
The young Kaiser made no public speech,
but wrote very gracious letter to Prince
Bismarck, congratulating that great man
upon the maintenance of peace, and incl
dentally claiming credit for the same,
equally with the Chancellor. The Kaiser,
however, if somewhat priggish, is kindly
young man. He spent several thousand
marks upon New Year presents for his five
Il Lv,IA ,,.at1
daughter, Princess Halle, superb collec-
tion OF dolls, with complete sets of
dresses and furniture. On New Years
Day His Imperial Majesty looked very
grand, as, with his wife, Le sat upon q
gorgeous throne, with a purple canopy,
holding sort of review of royalties and high
civil and military officers. No one under the
rank Of Counsellor of the first class was
allowed to be present at this august cere-
mony. Congratulations marched two by
two past their maiesties the ladies in high
dresses and hats and the gentlemen in tulI
uniforms, with their orders or decorations.
To-day, by way of emphasizing the pros
poets of peace, the Kaiser gave formal con-
sent to the formation OF two additional Ger
man army corps, and the construction of
new vessels Of war. To-day His Majesty is
shooting hares and phessants, near Berlin.
His brother of Austria is similarly engaged
Sn Styria.
RUINED HIS REPUTATION.
iYesterday King Humbert brought dis |
credit upon his horsemanship and rufled |
Lis dignity by Tumbling off his horse and |
rolling in the mud. His bruises will require |
attention for day or two, but otherwise he
SIS all right
The King of the Belgians has received |
aud deserves a good deal of sympathy for
the destruction of his palace BY fire. Un-
like the average monarch, it was not his
custom TO apply to Parliament every time
ceiling wanted mending or a picture had to
be bought, and the result is that he is a
personal loser by the fire to the amount of
at least 81 ,0OO, 600.
There is ministerial crisis in Spain, but
the baby King remains in his nursery, his
mother, the Queen Regent, undertaking to
put things straight.
England is awaiting without excitement
the arrival of Prince Kawananakoa, nephew
of the King of Hawaii, who has entered as a
student at the Royal Agricultural College at
Cirencegter, and will go into residence there
in week or two. The Prince is said to be
good, far above the British standard, goes to
church every day, and takes class at the
Sunday school. The Cirencester youths
will certainly endeavor to civilize His High
hess.