The record-union., 1893-05-24

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EDS. RECoRD-UNION: Will you in your
"Notes and Queries" column tel me and
the public if there is any such word as
"burSted," which meet with every now
and then i'll such connection as l submit
in the inclosed paragraph? [Cipping
from newspaper inclosed.
PHILOLOGIST.
It is bad and in no way defensible. It
is not even a redundant verb. We can
not understand why it should ever be
used except as slang, another form of
''buSted." Burst IS verb intransitive;
the participle past is burst; the participle
present is burst; the verbal noun is
bursting; the past participle was bursten,
but it is obsolete. Burst is also the verb
transitive when it means to break, to
rend, to open suddenly. If a thing is
burst (n), violently broken, why attempt
to intensity by saying bursted? As well
say of broken brokcned, or of lost
'losted." That it IS used proves nothing
in its favor, since good writer's never use
1t. 70 accept all that is used, by some,
simply because OF such use, would be to
give over the language to the vulgar or
the careless, and not recognize as best
the forms that the students of etymoIogy.
the accepted authorities, agree upon. We
do not pose as an authority, but we have
respect Tor those the world regards as
such.
EDS. RECoRD-UNIo Will you kindly
tell US something about Eulalia. the
Spanish Intanta. We have been much
bothered in trying to find i'll the encycIo-
pedias the date OF her birth, the position
she now occupies and whether she might
ever come to the throne.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Infanta Maria Eulalie mot Eulalia) was
born at Madrid, February Y, 1865, the
fifth child of the then Queen of Spain.
Marie Louise Isabella. Her brother
Alfonso born 1851 became King of
Spain, and by mis- second wife, Maria
Christina, the daughter of the Archduke
OF Austria, had TWO daughters and
posthumous son; the latter, by birth GUST
ing the elder girl. became, and is now
King OF Spain, under the regency of his
mother Eulalie is, therefore, aunt 10
the King, and the Princesses. Ferdinand
VII, father of. Isabella, having revoked,
by the pragmatic sanction OF March 20
1880, the Salic law OF the Bourbon family.
his daughter, the mother of Eulalie lborn
October 10, 1880, became heir to the
throne in place of the Kings brother.
Don Carlos, who, on the death of Ferdi-
nand, claimed the crown and proclaimed
himself Charles V. The CarIsts have.
however, been invariably overthrown
though often rising. You can thus figure
out what the possibilities are of
Eulalle coming TO the throne of
Spain. Eulaile's mother, Isabella,
came to the throne absolutely in 1913, the
Cortes declaring her of age eleven months
in. a ~ ? n 4.
she was Queen under the regency of Ma
ria Christina, her mother, and on whose
night to France she was Queen under the
regency of Espartero. In 1916 Isabella
was married to her cousin, Don Francisco
de AssiS believed To be impoteutl through
the Vaccinations of Louis Philippe OF
France. In Isabella's time the Court of
Spain was a nest OF intrigue aud scandal
was rampant. Louis Philippe, in hope TO
give France hold upon the throne OF
spain, and calculating that Isabella
would be childless, married his son, the
Due de Montpensier, 10 the Queens sis
ter, the ln1anta Maria, October, 1916. The
son of this Due de Montpensier and the
Infanta Maria Is now the husband OF Eu-
lalie. King Alfonso, her brother, on be-
coming King, in 1919, married Mercedes.
the third daughter or Montpensier. She
died childless, and Alfonso then married
the present Queen Regent. In 1886 Eula-
lie married the son of Due de Montpen-
sier. He is known as Prince Antonio,
aud accompanies her in her visit TO the
United States. His eldest sister married
MAY 50, 1854 her cousin, the Comte de
Paris The Prince is the only surviving
son of the Due de Montpensier,
who died at san Lucan, Ande-
lusia, February +, 1890, aged nearly
to. 1t was the marriage OF
the father of Eulalie's husband to the
Infanta Maria, sister of Eulalie's mother,
and the marriage of the Queen Eulalie's S
mother, on the same day to Francisco
d'Assis, that brought out the celebrated
English protest and Lord Palmerston' 5
threat to make the Spanish marriages
cause for declaring war. You Will thus
see that Eulalie and her brother, Alfonso
each married child of the Due de Mont
Densier, VINO had married sister of their
mother. Eulalie is slight of figure, grace
ful in movement, rather naughty OF car
riage. exceedingly emotional. very ex-
travagant, rather handsome, has brown