Arizona republican., 1899-01-27
FOREIGN NOTES AND COMMENT.

The official Berlin Gazette announces
 that the formalities have been com i pleted which invest Count Helle de i TalleyraEd P5rigord with the right Of l assuming the Prussian tit.o Or prince of ] Sagan, borne by his now imbecile fath- 1 CT, the duke of Talleyrand and of Sa- l gan, until the death of the latter s i father at the age of 80 more than a 1 year ago.
 ] If I place this on record it is with
 the object of avoiding confusion. The
 name and title Of prince of Sagan are
 so well known in connection with Par isian life that unless attention is
 drawn tc the change of style people,
 in this country especially, will be dis posed to render the father Tesponsibl3 for the shortcomings of his son.
 The new prince of Sagan, it is hardly necessary to add, has had an extreme ly stormy career until now, having spent the greater part of a year in prison, indicted for swindling, both his one-time crony, Mary Lebaudy, ana likewise the Parisian money lender out of large sums Of money by means of bills on which he had forged the sig nature of the ill-fated multi-millionaire Lebaudy
 It may be recalled that the prince of Wales used his very powerful influence at Paris to secure the withdrawal of the charges and the compromise of the entire case. The young nobleman's mother, so long known as the princess of Sagan, is enormously wealthy. and was anxious to take advantage of her f1rst-born's trouble to obtain from him a renunciation of his birthright to the dukedom in favor of her second boy, Bosom, who is her favorite. But the prince of Wales pointed out to her that by acting thus she would not only in cur universal Obloquy at home and abroad but would likewise besmirch with shame and filth one Of the grand est and most illustrious of the historic names Of France, a name which she herself bears. So, with considerate re- 1uctance, she furnished the money which enabled the compromise to be effected
 do not know what the new Prince de Sagan is doing at present. When last I heard of him, a few months ago, he was earning an honest livelihood by the manufacture of rubber tires for bicycles and automobiles, having the active management of a factory for the production of the same in the outskirts of Paris.
 The New Years honors in England have brought a handle to the name of at least one American girl married to a foreigner, for, by the grant of q knight commandership to Henry How ard, now British minister, his wife, a daughter Of George w. Riggs of Wash ington, D. C., becomes Lafy Howard.
 Sir Henry Howard was for many years connected with the British mis- sion at Washington, was indeed one of the most popular secretaries Of Sir Ed ward Tho4ntnn, and has since ther been stationed ir turn at Pekin, COpen- hagen and Paris. He is eminently what is known at the foreign office in London as a safe man." That is to say, he obeys orders, and does not en- deavor to play to the gallery.
 This is perhaps due in a measure to the training which he received from his father, the late Sir Henry Howard, ! who devoted his long and well spent life entirely to the diplomatic service of his country.
 The newly-knighted Sir Henry How