The Irish standard., 1896-05-23
ROYAL WIDOWS.


queen of England, Scotland and Ireland
Next to her one must rank her eldest
child, Victoria, empress dowager Of Prus-
STA, more commonly known rs the EN-
press Frederick. Then, In the same fam
lily circle, there are the Duchess Of Al
bany, born princess of sWaldeck -Pyr-
mont, and widow Of the English queens
youngest son, and the Princess Of Bat
tenberg, says the New York Journal.
Upon the continent there are q pair Of
widowed queens regent pristine Of
Spain and Emma Of Holland Both have
won golden opinions from those they
govern, no less than from impartial on
lockers. Queen Emma Is, by the way.
sister to the Duchess Of Albany, who ia
said to have been the first choice OF the
gay old reprobate, King William Of Hol-
land. She refused him, but her sister
threw herself into the breach, inspired
doubtless by the knowledge that reign
ing sovereigns, even though somewhat
battered and the worse for wear, were
not likely to come often a.wooing in
starving, If princely households. So they
were married, and there Is a little queen
Of Holland to cheat the anticlpations Of
the house of Cumberland. 5t.5.s n: z
But none Of the queens or empresses
can put out Of court Dagnar, sometime
Of Denmark, now the widowed czarfna,
Marie Feodorowna. It must. have gone
hard with her, in spite Of the splendors
of the change implied, to give over her
Danish name, which means day dawn, =
for an appellation so cumbrous. Feodo-
rowna means. by the way. daughter OF
Theodore" as does Paulovna daughter
Of Paul" The termination ''ovna,"' OF
'owna," has In all cases that signifi-
canoe in Russian names, just as the
sufix witch" means always. "son Of
Thus Alexandrovitch is '.the son OF
Alexander 3 4! 5...
Austrian royalty has two widows out
right, between whom It il hard to say
which has the more tragic story. All the
world still remembers the tragedy OF
Meyerling how the Crown Prince Ru-
dolph shot himself and the beautiful
Marie Vectsera, leaving his wife, Ste
phanie of Belgium, by no means discon-
solate, as the pair had been Oh the point
OF judicial separation. Still the shock
and shadow OF it all for the time over
whelmed her. But she has no continu-
ing sorrow such as has driven to mad
ness Carlotta, once empress Of Mexico,
who missed seeing her husband, Max
imilian, shot only because she had gone
to Europe asking help for him, where no
help was. Yet 1t is a questio Il, In spite
Of all, she is not less unhappy than her
sister. the Empress Elizabeth OF Austria,
who has been for long years widowed in
all but name. s:.s Is i.
Besides Empress Eugene, widowed,
childless, widowed shadow OF her beau
tiful self, France has 9 Duchess Of Or
leans, whom the legitimists rank as
queen dowager- not to mention the wife
Of her murdered president, Garnet And
there IS more than a Gallo trace An the
youngest OF royal widows, the Bonaparte
princess, who married. her uncle the
Duke d'Aosta, and since bis death has
set the Italian court Wild with her
freaks. s5xis /. S3:s Il +
Students Of law are accustomed to find
in their text books learned d;sauisitions
on the ..easements'' Of air ana light which
accompany title to real estate. A practical
illustration may be found Inst nov "a New
York, where 4 surety conpaa ~ has erected
4 building 81 stories 81 djoining s1a.
uildins owned BY John Jacob ttor, lhi::c a
rises only to its seventh story Above this
structure the company,s building is full "a
windows which obtain Tight oyer tie ROOF
81 Mr.. Astor's building. while its cornices
and even its window sils project over the
line 81 that gentlemen 3 pr1pe 4. Here
i q fine chance 70 5e1po.aa Zt II
easements and encroac but An
tor, Who Il ofended at shle Nh
sumption, prop w. III,
with Tue 81 6
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