Arizona republican., 1898-11-22
GOSSIP OF EUROPE.

If there is one thing which the Ger
 man emperor dislilIes more than any
 other it is having fun pokcd at himself.
 The large number of convictions Of l6se
 TGjeste which are annually recorded
 in his aCminion5 show how keenly
 sensitive he is to ridicuie. and just at
 present he is extremely indignant against the Italian custom house off cals. who have iendefed themselves
 guilty Of q mistake al his; ex9erse a
 mistake which put everybody at Con-
 .tantinopie on the broad grin during
 his stay there and is q source Of much
 amusement to all those who, enjoying the hCnCr Of his personal acquaintance,
 have heard about the affair. It seems
 that in spite of the enormous quantity 1 Os luggage which he earned away with
 him from Berlin on board his special
 train. and which comprised nearly 200
 huge trunks, a Gu2nity Of other bag j gage containing his personal effects, was dispatched 10 VeniCe by fast
 freight. The cases in question were ad-
 dressed to a shipping g gent at Venice.
 Stopped at the Italian frontier before reaching Nsnice, the cases were opened
 by the custom house officers. who
 found that they contained . quantity of strange garments of many colors and Cf varied and curious cut In de- fault Of information as to the owner ship and object Of ,hsse clothes they
 were entered on the custom house book as theatrical costumes" and the cases were, moreover. marked in large
 black letters g. such. The shipping agers who received the cases being un- der the impression that the desigla- ti0n Of theatrical costumes originat- ed in Berlin and that the contents were ] to be used possibly fer some Cf these amateur theatricals on board the Ho- henzollsrn, Of which the kaiser is 50 fond. sent the cases on to the yacht without removing the words in ques- ! ton. One Of the persons whose eyes they met were thOsc Of the emperor himself, who. it is needless to add. i'm medi2tely wantcd to knew what On earth theatrical costumes were doing On board lis yacht An investigation ensued. and when the smperor learned the result thereof his anger knew 10
 bounds, and for a time a. any rate his Italian friends en ,irely vanished
 l. was not so much the manner in which Lady Miles figured in the divorce case brought by Lord Colin Campbell against his lovely wife that was ob- jected to by county society in the west of England, as the queer Tliati02s of Lady Niles with the late duke of Kut- land. At the latter's deach ir was found that he had bequeathed 70 her his magnificent yacht, the "Lufra, along With all personal property Of which he could dispose. including car Tiag5s. horses. furniture, and even a quantity Of geld and silver plate, all adorned with the ducal arms o3 Rut- land. There WAS likewise large of q of tO it was found that she had in her pos session, too, the entire collection of the supsrb Rutland family jewels.
 Although these were heirl00ms, and formed part of the entailed e6ta-e,
 Lady Miles absolutely declines to give them up to the dukes younger brCoher and succe essOr, putting forward the plea that they had been given 70 her for her life by the late duke and tha1 il was not until her demise, therefore, that they would revert to the title. Nor was il until l5gal proceedings had ac- tuaily been commenced agains, her by the present duke and duchess that she surrendered the gems Wioh an exceed
 nely III grace. She was lihcwise forced to accept c compromise accord ing to he terms Of which she surren- dsTcd 6 considerable portion O. the be- quest, keeping, however, the money and the yacht.
 She is daughter Of that Sir Boyle considered too good to be kept secret and it was not long before il' had been circulated all over Constantinople, the most g0ssip-l0ving ca apital in all Eu- rope. The story has hit the empeTor all the more hard as he is perfectly well aware of the charges so frequent ly made against him of being disposed to a theatrical love of posture and dis play
 Ii seems but the other day since Sir Cecil Miles was in this country or the conclusion of his trip to the West h. dies, where the founder Of his family first won fame and fortune, and his i presence in the United States naturally led to a revival Of the queer stories in i, connection with his yacht, the ''Lufra, i as well as the part played by his moth !. CT, the once so beautiful Lady Miles, !! in the celebrated Lady Colin Camp | bell divorce case. Sir Cecil's sudden dea h has just, however, taken place, . and as he Is unmarried, Leigh Court 1 and the large estate passes into the !. possession Of his fathers youngest . brOther. Henry, who also succeeds to the baronctcy, much to the relief ot county society Of SomerSe., which has held alocf of Leigh Court ever since the . now DCTdS2f l-3uN Miles. once h4-oWu as the Venus Of Miles "a play on Venus Of Milo), took up h5r residence there.
 It is a s,rans. coincidence, indeed, that after having been forced to sur render those jewels which were Rut- land heirlooms, she would have been | robbed by thieves O. all the other jew :: els not foirlcoms which had been pre- . sented to her by the late duke of Rut-