Arizona republican., 1899-02-08


 to the court of her uncle, King Leo pCid I of Belgium
 
 It is difficult to understand why there should have been any surprise created at the large amount Of money left by the late earl of Latham, who was generally believed to have been a poor man, and yet whose will shows a personality of nearly a million dol lars over and above his entailed es- tates. People seem to forget that throughout his entire career he was dabbling in so-called city enterprises. and that at one moment he was on the beard of directors of larger number of joint stock companies than any one excepting Lord Thurlow or the mar quis of Tweedale pronounced Twid- dle)
 About ten years ago the earl became involved in some rather unpleasant difficulties in connection with a com p2ny that went into liquidation, and was forced, not only to pay heavy as sessmentS on the shares which had been given to him gratis in order to qualify him for the position of director, but was likewise compelled to pay sev- eral thousand pounds toward the set clement of the company's affairs on the ground that people had been led by the presence of his name on the board of management to invest their money in the enterprise
 It must thoroughly be understood that the large amount of money which he has left over and above his estates has been entirely obtained by city and joint stock company transactions.
 
 There is no truth in the story cur rent to the effect that the kaiser kept away from the silver wedding festivi- ties of his uncle, at Coburg, because the latter had invited the duke of Cum berland and of Brunswick, whom the kaiser does not wish to meet. Those who originated this stary are manifest ly unaware that the duke of Edinburgh is the one member of Queen Victoria's family with whom the duke of Cum berland declines to hold intercourse. and with whom he is at dagger's drawn
 The duke of Cumberland is just about the last person whom the duke Of COburg would have invited to his silver wedding festivities, and had an invitation been sent it is doubtful whether there would have been any re- sponse thereto one way or another on the part of the duke of Cumberland
 The latter is well aware of the fact that it is his cousin, Alfred, who first revealed and subsequently circulated, as capital joke, the story of his, the duke of Cumberland's af1iction. name ly. that he had been born without nose, a fact concerning which the most strict secrecy had until that time been maintained
 The true reason why the kaiser was not at the silver wedding festivities was, in the first place, because he had quarreled with his uncle and aunt, and, secondly, because the courts of Berlin are at the present moment engaged in the very Unsayory scandals in which Duke Alfreds only son is i'm plicated, and which have necessitated the young fellows being placed under restraint as 3 lunatic in order to fur nIsh a more or less well justified pre- text fer relieving him of any legal possibilities in connection with the shortcomings that may be laid to his charge.
 It was obviously difficult for the kaiser to present himself as the chief guest at the silver wedding festivities Of his uncle and aunt at the very time when his courts were engaged in the investigation of charges against their Cnly son.
 
 When one remembers the tremend- Ous fuss made at the time of the last visit of Empress Frederick to Paris, the discussion in the French and in the foreign press becoming So angry in connection with the matter that both her mother, Queen Victoria, and her son, the kaiser, insisted that she should at once cut short her stay, it is significant to find that sine has been spending an entire week at Paris, vis- iting theaters and museums without her presence OF the banks of the Seine exciting the slightest manifestation of i'll will on the part Of the Parisian press.
 It shows the truth of what 1 have always asserted in these columns, | namely, the sentiment of vengeance | against Germany for the invasion 1 of 1870 is dying out in France. Three | decades have elapsed since the war. A new generation has sprung up in | France since the so-called Terrible | Year." who know nothing of the latter | except by hearsay, and who are there | fore, quite disposed to be friendly to- ward Germany, especially when there | is any advantage to be derived there from either at home or abroad.
 During the years immediately fol- ! lowing the war the statues-female | gures-representing Metz and Stras- Oourg, on the Place de Ia ConcOrde at | Paris, were decorated on every public | holiday with flowers, crepe, and emb ems of deep mourning, while the pe0- rle deposited nOsegays at their base. Today nobody pays any attention to them.
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 Sir Nicholas O'Conor, the new Brit ish ambassador at Constantinople. who, as secretary cf embassy and charge daffaires, spent several years It Washington, has iraugurated new era in Stamboul
 Until now and from time immemo 'ial the British embassy in the Turk ssh capital has always been regarded