Omaha daily bee., 1897-08-22

Henry of Orleans, who, they claim, was at.
tacking his own countrymen when he Will
fed the Italians. In l773, they say. the duke
of Orleans, afterwards Philippe Egalite, was
travelling with his wife in Italy. On the 10th
of April in that year the duchess gave birth
to a child at Moiigiliana. That child was a
jatler, Loren2a ~Chiappina. had borne a son.
AT the SAINT date, the wife of a local office
goaler, Lorenza Chiappini, had borne a son.
Hence an exchange of much cash and two
children. The girl became the jailer's
daughter and his son was to be thereafter
Louis Philippe, king of the French. AS
to the pseudo Stella Chiappini, she went to
Florence, became a great singer, married a
Milford Anglais,' and was afterwards
famous as Lady Marlborough. 1t was only
in 1921 that the former artist learned the
secret of her birth through the will of
Lorenza Chiappini, who died at Sienna. Then
began the well known litigation by which
Lady Marlborough vainly sought to prove
that she was royal and Louis Philippe a
uaurper.
The committee of national expenditure of
Germany has just been paying its annual
visit to tho fortress oC Spandau, where Ger
many has stored $50, goo, 900 in coined gold
e. a war fund in preparation for contingent
cieS ever since the payment of the French
war indemnity. The war lords guardians
paIS through three iron doors and enter the
strong room of the national safe. Here there
are a thousand iron chests, placed one above
another like cigar boxes. Each safe has
twelve divisions, and each division holds
$500 in gold. Some bags are taken out
and counted, others are weighed, and here
and there Gealed iron safes are opened to
verify their contents. A statement of the
results 10 drawn up on paper, and the walls,
roof and foundation of the treasure chamber
are examined out of consideration for thieves
who may break through and steal. AS to
rashly approaching the fortress of Spandau,
a man who should attempt The feat would
get more lead than gold, unless he be q
German field marshal. Here is a yet unwrit-
ten romance OF the war.
ELECTRIC CABS IN LONDON.
London streets now have their cervice o!
electric cabs, new looking vehicles of the
coupe pattern, with yellow wheels, and
carrying two passengers at the existing
han5om cab fares. The underbody is heavy
looking and contains about a ton weight OF
electric accumulators. They will travel sixty
miles without replenishing. Your CORE,
spondent rode in one today through the mos
crowded part of West End, down Cheapside
and through the mael2trom of traffic at the
Bank of England, and the cab was manipu
lated far more easily and more perfectly
than could the most Skilful of cabmen man
age a harsom. They run smoothly with
out vibration with merely a buzzing sound
to which the ear soon becomes accustomed
The hanson cabbieo are beginning to regart
the innovation with some seriousness
although they greet the drivers of horseles'
vehicle1 with samples of their most polished
sarcasms, conveying a rooted skepticism as
to their success. So far the forty cars which
are pioneering the new departure are re
garded more as objects of curiosity than at
practicable vehicles by the public, but the!
will soon get used to them and if they worl
as smoothly as that l travelled in today ant
the cont of maintenance can be lessened, the!
undoubtedly will make short work of tn
conventional cabs as far as London is con
cerned.