Arizona republican., 1899-09-17
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT

lIecOrd among the. royal persona geS Of the old world as a mOuntaineer, he Is
 run close in the matter by his now
 stout and pOrtly aunt, Queen Marguer- ite, who is never so happy as when
 making Alpine ascents, and who sur
 passes all other royal and imperial
 ladies as an Alpinist. One of her most highly prized possessions is her alpen-
 stock, presented to her many years ago by her faithful friend and cavalier, l Barcn PeccoZ, who died at her very feet during an Alpine excursion from
 the result Of failure of tbe heart,
 brought on by ratification of the air.
 The alpenStOc1 is a veritable Alpine
 diary, on it being branded all the
 mountaineering feats accomplished by
 her majesty This year when the
 queen was about to take her departure
 for GressCney it could not ba found,
 and the entire palace was in an up
 roar at Rome, gentlemen-in-waiting
 ladfes-in-waiting officers and servants
 gesticulating and talking excitedly as only Italians can. Ultimately after
 several hours of turmoil the queen her
 self found it among a bundle of King
 HumbeTt's sticks
 Among Queen Marguerite's Alpine feaits are the ascent of the so-called Giants Peak" 5000 feet high, Of the
 Giornegrat, which is 10000 feet high.
 It was while ascending the latter that
 she narrowly escaped with her life.
 She slipped and would have fallen int0
 crevasse, hundreds of feet deep, had
 it not been fer one of the guides, who.
 with rough kindness, and at the peril
 of his own life, seized her by the arm
 and held her with such force that she
 carried for many long day the inn
 pIesSiOn of the. muscular fingers of her
 savior. When Barren Pecccz died 50
 suddenly four years ago he was quite alone with her, far in advance of the remainder of the party, and he just had strength enough while he lay pres trate to carry har hand to his lips as he expired.
 There are few people in Germany who do net regard with sympathetic l interest the negotiations in progress for a marriage between Prince Freder- i ick Henry, eldest son of Prince Albert | of Prussia, regent of Brunswick. and | Princess Louise of Great Britain, | daughter of the duke of Cumberland, | and de jure sovereign duke Of Bruns- wick, fer matrimonial alliance of this | kind would put an end to the conflict | which has so long been raging between the Hohenzollerns and the Guelphs, | precisely in the same manner that the marriage of the present kaiser to his estimable cOnsort brought to a close the bitter hostility beween the reign ing house of Prussia and the royal family Of Schleswig-Holstein
 The Schleswig-H0istein controversy, which was the cause of no less than two sanguinary wars, was removed from the field of international politics when the present kaiser married the eldest sister Of the de ju1e sovereign duke of the duchess of SchleSwig and Holstein, which are now incorporated into Prussia, and in the same way the equally veXaticus Guelph dispute which concerns not only the sovereign duchy of Brunswick, but likewise the former kingdom of Hanover, would likewise be put cut of the way by a union between the eldest sister cf the crippled heir of the duke of and Brunswick to the :, eldest son Of Prince Albert of Prussia, who is now Prussian regent of the duchy of Brunswick. II
 The stories current to the effect that the crown princess Of Italy entertains hopes Of presenting her husband with an heir to the throne should be re- ceived with a considerable degree Of caution. It may be doubted in fact whether the crown prince really z wishes for a son. He is extremely su- Derstitious, and so convinced that his { Offspring will be some kind of physical | 1r mental monStrosity that he literally T lreads his wife becoming a mother. It was this fear that prevented. him from 7 marrying for so many years until love { ;arried the day over prudence when ne ' Princess Helene The fact Of the matter is that in every \ second generation in the royal house Z If Savoy for centuries past there has ! always been physical or mental mon 'trOsity, the most recent instance be- ng that of the brother of King Hum . pert, Otto by name, who was both { lunchback and a cretin. There are 10 , reaks in the present generation of the | [ oval house Of Italy, but according to he invariable rule of the past 300 z Tears, either the crown prince or his ,ousin should become the father of a nonstrostty, which has not yet made tS appearance.
 1 am led to make these remarks ow- ng to the passionate fondness whicn he crown princess Of Italy has lately \ developed fer her little baby nephew, J he infant son of the duke and duchess { f AOsta, who will eventually inherit he Italian throne if she fails to give { birth to an heir. The crown princess $ deeply distressed at her own chilli essness, so much so that until recently he invariably avoided the fair haired < little Prince Amadeus \ The other day, however, she happened o meet him in a ccrridcr of the palace
 f Monza, in his nurses arms She ! would have avoided him as usual, but ( c n9SSPd W , held ol1t to her his fat d m C Jed arms, anG On the impulse of the j moment she took him from the nurse, E while her eyes filled with tears. The j title fellow laid his lips on each of her 4 ids, stroking her cheeks with his A and. She gave sob, and has ever E ince been lis most deYated slave. N