The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
Foreign Eads,

1t has rained only twice in twenty nine
years in Alden, and then only enough to lay
the dust.
1t is estimated that the treasure lying idle
in India in the shape of boards of orna-
ments amounts to e25O, 100000.
In Corea sheets OF paper pass for money;
one sheet brings one quart of rice, or
twenty sheets piece of hemp cloth.
The accommodations of the vatican may
be imagined when the Pope put 2, 200 beds
in it at the disposal Of the French pilgrims
free of charge
! cheap. A French artist has bought the Fort
| du Guesclin for about 81, 100. They go
| from few hundred to 81 600.
Less than score of Russian scholars, it
! is asserted, can translate Count Tolstois
dramatic languages directly from the origi-
nal into English.
Bavaria's demented King spends most of
his time skinning potatoes. Several other
European sovereigns spend most of theirs
| trying TO skin each other.
! Queen Victoria's gift to France will be a
| hre portrait OF herself in a gorgeous FRAME
upon which will be blended the arms of
England and France, and other emblems
of the Queens respect for the republic.
Trying to interview the Primes of Wales
is as difficult JOB as trying to pick Yale
| lock with a toothpick. He is not to be got
at by the willing scribe, and the American
syndicate which offers &, 500 for an inter-
view with him needn't be in q hurry to
buy draft for the money.
Queen Christina of Spain is persistently
carrying out, 10 the intense disgust of her
household the refo ms which the late
Duke Of Aosta when king attempted to in
troduce-reforms by which the yiGnds and
wines coming from the royal table are re-
tanned instead OF becoming the perquisites
of servants, as was formerly the case.
The Duke of Cambridge is one of the
best known old boys in London, and there
is hardly soldier, policeman, or hackman
in town who is not acquainted with the
rosy-gilled and white haired two bottle old
man, who has never been over popular with
the officers of the army because he would
persist in being fussy friend of the sol
dierS.
The Princess Ludwig of Bavaria gave
birth to her thirteenth child. Twelve OF
her children are living. The princess is
the daughter of Duke Ferdinand of Mo
dena, aud an archduchess of Austria. She
was born in 1S49 and was married in 1868
No other royal princess in Europe is the
mother of so many children as this popular
Bavarian lady.
The presentation to the imperial family
of Austria of a sackful of holy earth from
the chapel of the Ascension on the Mount
OF Olives for the purpose of being placed
in the coffin of the late Grown Prince Ru-
dolph recalls to mind the fact that every
| one of the royal families in Europe makes
a special point of having water brought
from the river Jordan for the purpose OF
royal and imperial christenings.
| The future Empress Eugene was just
t twenty six years age when Napoleon III
; fell in love with her at ball. He haC
heard OF her magnificent physique through
| the rumors of her appearance when drag.
ged in flowing draperies from little lake
into which she had fallen on her mothers
estate in NJ aga. From pale, thin, shy
! girl she suddenly blossomed out into a daz
t cling beauty. Eugene and Queen Victorit
t are warm personal friends now.
The number OF converts to the Church
of Rome has been more numerous in Lon
don society this year than ever before
3 Among other well known meu who have
taken this step are the son of Lord n elson
Lord ST. Cyres, eldest son of the Earl O.
Iddesleigh; Mr.. Basil Lechmere, son Of ST
Henry Lechmere; Mr.. j. USHER, a Inca
descendant of the famous Archbishop
USHER, Protestant primate OF IrelanG, an(
Mr.. Algernon Bowring, Of the Queen
household.
The eX King and Queen of Naples, VIII,
S have no children, live most of the year a.
, the hotel Vouillemont, at Paris, upon tn
fourth floor, receiving no one save few
old adherents. The ex-Queen devotes al
l her spare cash to her horses, but both sh
5 and her husband are very poor, their nam
! figuring frequently on the books of Atten
. borough, the great pawnbroker in London
3 who has disposed Of almost every bit O
9 their silver and gold plates, as we'll as O
: her maiesty's jewels.