Arizona republican., 1899-06-07

Rhodes, and holds the appointment of
 mining commissiongr at Buluwayo.
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 I hear that Adelina Patti is so de- lighted with her youthful Swedish husband tlnt she has just settled upon i him fife annuity Of $15.G00 Among ether husbands who have thus been financially benefited by their elderly wives are young Harry Miner who, l when a the age of 24, married the septuaganarian dowager duchess of Montrcse C'The Sporting Duchess') 1 secured from her an annuity of $I5,030 i a year for the remainder of his days. while young Ashmead Bartlett the i American born husband of Baroness Burdett Coutts, had an income of quarter Of a million dollars year set tied upon him by his Octogenarian wife
 Maurice de Bunsen, secretary of the British embassy at COnst2ntinople, and whose marriage has just taken place ill Scotland, is not only well known in Washington, where he ccm- menced his diplomatic career some twenty years ago, but likewise belongs to a family which owes a considerable | Of it's eminence, to the American fam fly Of Astor.
 The founder of the house of Bun sen. Christian Charles by name, was 2 poverty stricken young student of the University of Goettingen, in Germany. his peasant parents experiencing th7 greatest difficulty in furnishing him with the necessary resources for his studies IL was, therefore. 2 piece Of great good fortune when he was sa lected to serve as private tutor, and as travelling companion to the soR of the original Astor. who laid the fcunda tion of the colossal wealth Of that family The couple wandered all over Europe together, visiting Goethe, Schcpenhauer, and Niebuhr. and when finally MT AstOr returned to this country BunSen was provided for in a financial sense for the remainder of his days in So generous manner that he was able shortly afterwards to mar " Miss Washington, aunt Of the MT Washington who subsequently, spent 50 many years in London as French ambassador leaving at his death an American widow daughter of Presi- dent King Of Columbia university.
 Mir Astor's ex-eutor in course of time acquired the favor and good will, not only of the reigning house Of Prus- sia, buc also of Queen Victoria, and eventually at her suggestion was ap- pointed Prussian envoy to the court of St. James. with the rank of baron. His son, George. 'who died only few years ago. although a member of the Prussia house of lords, and for some years in the diplomatic service of Prussia was more than half an Eng lishman, and married a sister of that Norfolk banker. Sir Edward Birkbeck. who was one of the British cCmmi5- siOners at the worlds fair at Chicag0. Owing to the treatment to which he. George Ga Bunsen. was subjected by P''iEce Bismarck. he brought up his sons as Englshmen, the one being an Anglican clergyman and the other Maurice Ge BUnsen, now secretary of the English embassy at Constantino- pie with the rank of minister oleni- potentiary Maurice de Bunsen had the offer of the secTetaryship of the embassy a5 Washington. but declined 1t in favor Of COnstantinOple, on the ground that the latter place offered better prospects of rapid promotion.
 
 It is hardly necessary to say that there is no truth whatsoever in the stories ca0led to this country concern ing disputes with regard to the pracc- denCe of Mrs Letter. at the viceregal court of Sim.2. In the first place Mrs. Letter is in this country at the pres ent time, and has not been anywhere near India, while secondly, nc such dispute could arise even if she were in India, since precedence is all officially fixed there by regulations having the force of law, and which the vicerOy has nc power 60 modify. I imagine the silly story arose through the vice roy giving his American sister-in-lax the rare and highly prized privilege cf using a carriage at Simla, this pre- rogative being ordinarily restricted t9 the viceroy and his wife, and to the commander-in-chief.
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 The season in the south of France has not been brought to a close with out the widowed grand duchess cf Mecklenb curg-Schwerin giving once again ground for gossip more or less scandal0us. It has always been a matter Of common report that the sui eide Of her husband a couple of years ago at Cannes i1as due to the disc0v- ery that the favOrs which she had con ferred upon a young German cOunc had gene beyond the limits of an CT dinary Irritation. To such an exten- indeed, was her conduct considered re- sp0nsible for her husbands death that for time she was forbidden to return to the dominions Of her young son, ttis restriction being only eventually withdrawn in deference to the Rus- sian imperial family, to which she be- longs by birth.
 This year she is stated to have con tracted a morganatic marriage to the young count, with the object cf- put ting an end to an intimacy between the latter and a young Countess SchU- lenberg, a married woman. who blew her brains out when she found out that her lover had deserted her to re- turn to the grand Uchess.-MaTQuise dn E,n.a -c1a-u i.a NLasnirl crl n1, PaS1