Arizona republican., 1899-12-29

dals that had ruined his health, his mind and his reputation.
 The duchess absolutely declined to see her brother-in-law. the duke of Connaught, when he came to Coburg, at the time of his proclamation as heir to the throne Of Coburg, and there is no doubt that his subsequent abandon ment of his rights to the succession both for himself and for his son was partly due to his perception of the fact that either his own presence or that of his boys at Coburg would prove dis agreeable in the extreme to the duchess and perpetual source of bad feeling and of family feuds.
 His nephew, the 15-year-old and fatherless duke of Albany, was there upon proclaimed heir to the sover- eighty of the two duchies in his stead and was taken away from Eton. where he was studying. in order that he might be educated as German prince at Co., burg, or Gotha, among his future sub- jects. The duchess of Coburg, how ever, would not tolerate this. She ab- solutely declined to allow any of the numerous ducal palaces or establish ments to be placed at the disposal Of her nephew and of his mother and sis ter, declaring that as long as her hus- band remained on the throne of Coburg she would permit no one to step into the shoes of her lamented son. and to be paraded before her eyes as crown prince for the purpose of perpetually reminding her of the loss which she had sustained.
 It is on this account that the wid- owed duchess of Albany and her chill dren, unable to find any hospitality on the part of her royal relatives at Co., burg and Gotha, have been compelled to seek and accept the hospitality Of more remote kinsfolk. and will for the next year make their home at Stutt- gardt, where. the king of Wurtemberg has placed a suite of apartments at their disposal, and where the young duke is to attend school.
 
 Empress Frederick of Germany has leased from Mir. Reginald Pearse, an Englishman, well known to most Amer ican visitors to Genoa, his lovely villa Marigola, on the Gulf of Spezia, and will spend the entire winter there. She will be accompanied, as usual, by the
  Councillor Count Seckendurff, who shares her artistic tastes and talents, and who has been attached to her ser vice for nearly forty years, known and respected at every court in Europe for his devotion both to herself and to her lamented husband, especially at those times, prior to Emperor Fredericks death, when the imperial couple were surrounded by traitors and by spies, and when true friends were few and far between. Count Seckendorffs younger brother, having married in tkis country, has for many years made his home at Washington, and like many another foreigner of ancient line age and illustrious birth, has had the good sense to drop his title as out of keeping with American ideas.
 Among the many scions of the Brit ish nobility now on the way to South Africa, there is a young subaltern of the Tenth Hussars, who sailed from Southampton the other day with his regiment, as a mere commoner in re- ceipt of a moderate allowance, but who, on reaching the Cape of Good Hope, will find that he has in the meantime become, through his fathers death, a peer of the realm, and one of the wealthiest land owners in Great Britain, his property being all the more valuable from the fact that a very large portion thereof consists of land in the most fashionable quarters of the British metropolis.
 Young Tom Ellis. who now becomes Lord Howard de Walden, is, in fact, 1 one of the greatest ground landlords of London, his holdings being as extensive as those of the duke of Westminster. 1 The income which he inherits, but of which he will not be placed in posses sion until he comes of age, a year hence, exceeds S3,OOO,OOO, and is bound | to go on increasing by leaps and 1 bounds, owing to the almost continuous falling in of leases of land which at the | time of their grant ninety-nine years l ago consisted of empty building sites, | but which are now covered with costly | mansions which, although built by the | lessees of the land, now become the | property of the ground landlord, name | ly, of the young peer. Most of this | property belonged originally to the late | duke of Portland, who,. at the time of |
  greater portion of his colossal property | away from the dukedom, to his only | surviving sister, who died only a few | months ago.
 Her son, the late Lord Howard de | Walden, whose death has just taken | place, will be unmourned even by his only son and successor. For he was l one of the very blackest sheep of the | British aristocracy, was known by the | significant nickname of Jack the Rip l per" was Ostracised by society, and separated from his charming wife ow- ing to his bestially drunken habits and i almost incredible cruelty. The son, of | course, took his mothers side. The late peers history is so unsavory that it is unnecessary to make more than pass ing reference to it here, his death being | a relief to his family.-Marquise de I--O,, XITo