Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-11

pered had not the open immortality of the
court and the imbecilitysof the Government
made path for the revolution. Her four
daughters are forever shut out of the sue
cesSion.
Mother of the Baby King.
Probably of all the royal widows in Eu-
rope at the present time, the happiest is
Queen. Regent Maria Christina, the mother
OF six-year-old Alfonso Kill, whose affec-
| tion for her boy, as well as her patriotic
devotion to the welfare of her country, has
won the hearts of the impulsive Spaniards.
Maria Christina is a Hapsburg; but she
seems to have escaped the adverse fortunes
that have overtaken so many other men,
bers o. that gloomy house. She is one of
the kiIidest and most charitable of women;
not beautiful, as the Madrid standard of
loveliness goes, but so lovable that the
pretty Madrllenes press forward when she
appears in public and strive to kiss the
hem of her dark mourning gown. The poor
especially love her, for her deeds of kind
ness among them. Naturally much of this
affection will be transferred to the young
monarch who already seems in a fair way
to be spoiled through popular petting.
Carlotta, the widow of the ill-starred Max
imilian, Emperor. of Mexico, over whose
fate the whole IF Europe has wept, is now
in a retreat al Lacken. She is not violently
insane, as MANY have supposed, although at
times subject to exciting seizures, which
soon pass away. The doctors, however, re-
gard her as beyond ali hope OF cure. Every
year on July q, the anniversary of her
wedding in 1857, she Is visited by her
brother, the King OF the Belgiahs, and his
queen. II, as once happened, they miss
calling on the appointed date, she is liable
to become greatly agitated an violent At
Ell lS VII iafi m Of laA
sadness or melancholy, speaking only when
speech is unavoidable, and then in low
whisper. and never smiling. In spite of
long years of suffering all traces OF per-
sonal loveliness have not disappeared.
King LeopoId's Lovely Daughter.
There are still many in London who can
recall the first appearance there of Carlotta,
Arehduchess Of Austria and Empress of
Mexico, during the season OF 1856. At that
time she was really the idol OF aristocra ,ic
Europe, by reason OF her beauty and her
gentle nature. She drove in the same car
riage with Victoria and Prince Albert on a
review day, and nobody was more looked at
than King Leopold's lovely daughter Car
lotta never really liked the MexicanS nor
their ways, and even now, it is said, she
gives bitter evidence of this feeling at in
tervals. 1t has been said that her madness
would never have reached a serious siege
had it not been for the ill-treatment she re-
ceived at the hands OF Napoleon Ill, on
her return from Mexico in 1866. Thus,
singularly enough, her misfortunes may be
said to be allied with those of the recluse of
Farnborough, ex-Empress Eugene.
Two very amiabie royal widows, neither
OF whom possess the slightest pretensions
to notorieTy, are Queen Emma, of Holland,
and Queen Olga, OF Wurtemberg The
latter is the relict of King Karl L, whose
rule was scandalized by the singular rise of
two Americans, Richard NJ. jackson ana
Charles B. Woodcock, to phenomenal in-
fuence-a condition of things which so dis
pleased the steady-going Wurtembergers
that they put a very sudden stop to it In
1888 the Cabinet went On a strike; and the
king had TO agree to dismiss the foreigners
Karl didn't get over it He was very fond