Arizona republican., 1898-08-07
THE NEWS OF EUROPE.

Ol AuSlrO-tuuSdTy, Lue great Q1Snl- taries of the court of Vienna are now busily engaged in drawing up the pro- gramme of splendid jubilee festivities which are to be held in the Austrian capital at the beginning of December. The German kaiser, the kings of Sax ony, of Wurtemberg of Sweden, and of Greece, as well as the prince of Wales, and the prince of Naples have already promised to attend, and it is not yet Il quite decided whether the czar will come himself to Vienna for the occas- ion or be represented by one cf the grand dukes.
 IF order to accommodate so large and distinguished company extensive l alterations are being made at the Hof- l burg, where the great riding school | is being transformed into banuuet- ing hall, while arrangements are being made to quarter some of the less inn portant royal and imperial guests from abroad in the other palaces in and around Vienna Meanwhile the celebration may be said to nave already commenced, for on Saturday a week ago an army of 10000 huntsmen assembled from all parts of Austria to do homage to the good old kaiser in the glorious park of the suburban palace of Schoen- brunn. The demonstration took place under the direction of Archduke Fran cis Ferdinand, who is one of the best sporting shots in the dual empire. and all present, comprising the emperor and the members of the imperial house. wore for the occasion the pie turesque dress of the huntsmen of Ty- rol, Carynthia, Upper Austria, and Salzburg.
 Every hat was decorated with a badge from the trees peculiar to the district from whence the wearer came, oak and pines from the lower regions. and the rare dwarf pine, or '1atschen'' for the chamois hunter Hunting horns furnished the music for the ceremony, and the archduke in the course of an address of congratulation presented to the "ODerster Jagherr" of the em- pire, that is to say, to Francis Joseph, hunters badge made of pure gold.
 It is doubtful whether any other feature Of the jubilee celebration will afford as much qualification to the emperor as this huntsmen's demon tstration. For Francis Joseph is the foremost sportsman of his empire, and heads the record as a chamois hunter Chamois hunting is the most arduors of all forms of sport, as well as the most perilous For although the quarry itself is not dangerous, yet lowing to the almost inaccessible alpine heights to which this graceful, but ex- tremely shy animal is accustomed to resort, it's chase is attended ty much loss of life.
 Chamois shooting is the only form of relaxation which the emperor ac- cords himself. He is never so happy as when stalking this particular kind of game. and tLere is no doubt that his chief syinpathies are for those who find their pleasure in the same form of sport. No one is considered a hunts man in Austria who has not certain number of chamois or equally serious game to his record, and among the men who have thus graduated as mas ters of the cnase a certain sort of brotherhood exists irrespective of so- sial rank That is why Emperor Francis Joseph felt so much at home among 40,000 huntsmen who had as sembled from all parts of his domin- ions to do him honor as not only their monarch, but as the grand master of their craft
 The stories with regard to the all leged poisoning of the czarina by means of arsenic contained in her daily morning cup of chocolate should be received with a considerable amount of caution. For as pointed out previoIsly in these columns the Countess Suanoff mentioned in the dispatches as having put the arsenic in the chocolate when bringing it to the empress is merely 3 titular lady Iin-waiting, and does rot form part of the personal entourage Of her majes- lty. Moreover, the czarina's chocolate if chocolate she drinks, would not I,e brought to her by a lady-in-waitirg, but by one of her confidential domes- tics, as any one who had any knowl- edge of court life might know
 The days when great ladies of the court were expected to perform the most menial services in connection with the attendance on their royal or imperial mistresses are long since past. An empress or a queen is now permitted to dress in private, instead of in public, and to rely upon the ser vices of her personal domestics, in stead of waiting for duchess to hand her her chemise, a marchioness her stocks, and countess her cor sets.
 The services of ladies-in- waiting in these modern times only commence from the moment when their mistress issues forth from the privacy of her bed chamber and personal apartments, and if there has been any poisoning Of the czarina, which I venture to doubt, it will have to be ascribed either to her domestics, or to her chef.
 What is infinitely more probable is that the indisposition from which the cZarina is suffering is due to the eff fleets of the deadly climate of St. Pet ersburg, rather than to any arsenical poison. The climate of St. Petersburg which is so unhealthy that the project
 has frequently been mooted to trans.
 fer the national capital elsewhere
 tends to produce anaemia, weaknes;