Arizona republican., 1900-11-07
LATE GOSSIP OF
 FOREIGN CAPITALS

| and hereditary afflietions which have caused the annointed or the Lord in Flu rope to be regarded by the insurance companies as among their very worst risks, there is no class of people that show a greater increase in longevity. In 1S4S th5re were fifty-one European sovereigns. of whom only eleven were over sixty and of these there was but one who had exceeded the biblical age Of three score years and ten Of the forty sovereigns today no less Chan twenty-eight are over sixty. Of thes= seven are septuagenarians, five are oc- toS snarians, and ons, namely Leo XIII. IS in his ninety-first year. This re- narkaole showing should assureily lead the actuaries of the various insur- ance companies to reconsider their Vlews as to the character of i;ihe risk of royal lives. and as to the average length of the latter.
 
 ! Count Boni de Castellane and his American wife. who is a daughter of Jay Gould. have be=n thrown into i mourning by the deatE, of Count da Juigne, Who, as a iorClher Of the Mar | quisS de Castellane. was uncle to Rorai. The comte de Juigne may be regarded as having bsen the leading sportsman and the most conspicuous figure on the French turf. He owned jointly with his friend. tha Prince Ar nburg, one of the most important racing stables in France, was pres,deE, of what is known Is the Concours Hippique a great annual horse show, which takes place each spring at Paris, and shared With the Hungarian Count Tassilo Els tetics tha rare distinction of honorary membership of the French Jockey club. | He was a rcyalist of the old fashioned type, with the singular courteous man. ners and the entire aosance of pose and of affectation which distinguish l the French 'gentirhomme" of the old school. While fond of h.s sister he nev- CT displayed any particular pre1ilection for his nephew, Boni, and was never to | be seen at any of the festivities and en- tertainments given by the latter. In | fact, Boni presents so marked a con- trast physically, Intellectually and morally, as wr-ll as in manner, to his grand old uncle, that it is easy to com prehend that there should be no sym- pathy whatsoever between the two.
 
 Mrs. Asquith, so well known as ''Dodo," und2r which pseudonym she is | portrayed in the popular novel of that name, and who, prior to her marriage, was a prominent figure in the London biblical world as "Margot Tenant" ," has just met with a very serious loss | through the destruction of the greater part of her pretty home in London. Sit uated in Cavendish square, it is one Of tAe oldest houses in the Marylebone district of the British metropolis, and | in the days when London ended with Soho. and m5n went out to shoot snipa in what is now Regents park, the house was the country seat of the Harrington family. The drawing room is a de- lishtful. long, low apartment on nhe first floor,r above MT. .AsquitGl's study and Mrs. Asquiths bcudoir, both of which look out into a quaint old court yard lined on one side with stables.
 Mrs. Asquith is the youngest of iuh.a daughters of the immensely wealthy Sir Charles Tennant, the eldest being the wife of Lord Ribblesdale, hickman ed by his friend, Lord Charles Bsres- ford, as 'Dibblesquash." The second, Mrs. Graham Smith, wife of ove Of the great territorial magnates of Wiltshire is an admirable artist; the third, per haps the most gifted of thsm all, was the first wifi of Alfred Littleton, and is now dead. Of Mrs. Asquith's brothers, the, eldest, heir to hts wealth and to his Earonetcy, is The husband of the fairest of Sargent's "Thrse Graces," be- ing befora her marriage Miss Pamela Wyndlam. The younger son has as his wife a lady kn5wn in her maiden days as Miss May Abraham, and who was the first woman to be appointed to the post of government inspector of facto- ries.