News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-27
Foreign.

William Pinero, the playwright, is lying
dangerously i'll at Folkestone, England.
NJ. Rouvier, the French Minister of F;
ancc, is about to contract marriage with
niece, Mdle. Cadiot of Dieppe. NJ. Rouvie.
lost his first wife about year ago.
Lord Stanley, Governor General CT Canada,
will leave for England, but will return in
time to receive the Duke of Connaught in
May.
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, American Minister to
France, sailed from Havre for New York.
Mr.. Reid goes to New York for the purpose
of accompanying his wife back to France.
The Austrian Official Gazette publishes
Emperor Francis Joseph's autograph letter
accepting the resignation of Prime Minister
Won TIA. In it the Emperor conveys to the
retiring Minister an expression of his highest
esteem and confidence.
Henry Parkes, the political leader of Aus
tralia, owns q siXpence which was the first
money he ever earned. He stepped ashore
penniless and friendless at Sydney half GEN.
fury ago and got the siXpence for holding a
horse in front of saloon while the owner
went inside to get drink.
Mrs. Sutherland-Orr is likely to write a
good biography of Browning. She is a sis
ter to Sir Frederick Leighton, President of
the Royal Academy, and was one of Brown
ing's most intimate friends. Her volume
will contain great number of valuable re-
Emperor Wilhelm was chucking over the
fact that he had succeeded in getting dis
tinguished French delegation to attend his
labor conference, when, on the very evening
of the delegations arrival in Berlin, the news
came that the Ministry which appointed it
had been oyerthrown on the question of its
appointment.
daughters of the Prince of Wales often wear
in public the Scotch tartan suits and the
Highland bonnet.
Cranks occasionally find their way to Glad
stones house near Chester, and are tenderly
handed over to the rural police, who put
them on departing trains.
Some of the Egyptians who were features
of the Oriental part of the Paris Exposition
are said to have become financially stranded
there, and are now among the street beggars.
Boulanger is expected to make another
brief disturbance in the spring, and then may
accept one of the many offers he has received
from American dime museum proprietors.
A society for the suppression of impure
literature has been formed in London, with
number of titled women among those de-
clared to be interested in the movement"
Some new and remarkably large elephants
are on their way from India for the London
1900" They are understood to be presents
to Prince Albert Victor, who is now i'll thai
country.
Waterloo House, London, is to be opened
as the President Hotel during the coming
summer. The executives of the several re-
publcs throughout the world can divide the
rather dubious honor among themselves.
1t is said to be the German Kaiser's plan to
indulge himself in several royal picnics and
imperial excursions all summer, travelling
about from place to place in the royal yacht.
Birmingham and Manchester are two cities
full to overlooking with wealthy manufacture
ers whose greatest ambition is to "get into
the House of Commons" 1t is only ques-
ton of time.
The fashionable season at Nice has develop
ed the usual number of scandals, which are
reproduced in French and English "society"
sheets which make specially of such miser
able kind of news.
Count Szapary is Premier of the new Hun
garian cabinet.
King Leopold of Belgium speaks and writes
English with ease and accuracy. He never
let's a Sunday pass without writing an auto
graph letter to his friend and ally, Queen
Victoria,