Arizona republican., 1900-08-30

the dukedom of Edinburg, as well as the earldOms of Ulster and of Kent, has become extinct. It is believed that the queen will now put into execution her much discussed project of reviving her own fathers dUkedom of Kent in favor of her youngest daughter. Princess Be- atrice. at whose death it would pass to her oldest son, young Prince Alaxan- der of Batenburg. The princess is al ready the governor of the Isle of Wight q position which Is the equivalent to that of lord lieutenant of the various counties.
 The obj ct Cf ,he Prince of Wales in going to H5mburg and in canceling at the very last moment all the arrange ments which had been made for his stay at Marienbad is due in part to rhe presence at the latter place of the Duke and Duchess of Orleans. whom he does not wish to meet. but mainly to be near his elder sister. the widowed Empress Frederick. who is in very fee ble health. Homburg is within easy drive of her country seat in the Tanus Hills, and while taking the waters of Homburg the prince will be able to spend part of each day with her She can no longer walk without assistance.
 
 One hears so much about young Aus ten Chamberlain. he junior civil lord of the admiralty. thac Ons would be temp ted to imagine that the colonial secre- tary of state has no other son. This however. is not the case. A younger brother of Austen. Neville Chamberlain. is about 10 enter parl:am Tt as the un- ioni candidate flr Wolverhampton He is not unknown in America. and spent some time on this side of the At lantic in cOnneCti n wi.h his fathers sisal planting enterprise in the Baha- mas. Neville did net prove hims If to be q good business man. and the col lonial secretary eventually gave up the whole affair with a heavy balance on the wrong side of the ledger. It is not generally known that MT. Joseph Chamberlain had on a previous occa- si n burnt his fingers in connection with colonial planting enterprise Nitamba. one of the islands of the Fiji group. is known out in the Pacific as having been the scene of an unsuccess- ful planting venture of Fighting Joe"
 
 Italy's crown plays no longer any role in connection with the inaugura tion of a kings reign. but is used only at the funeral of the sovereign, when it is borne after the heagse on a purple vel vet cushion by enc of the principal dig nitaries of the realm. It is the oldest royal crown in Europe, and dates back to the year 326. for St. Ambrose. in the funeral cratiOn which he delivered on the death of the Emperor Thlodosius in 395, declare that the empress. known as Sj. Helena. made a jeweled crown of one of the nails used to faStan Christ to the cross, and sent it to her son. Emper0r Constantine the Grea. who placed il n his helmet. Constan- tine afterward gave it to Pope Gregory the Great, who gave it to Theolinda. queen Of the Longobards. who in turn gay i, to the church of St James at MOnza. where it has ever since re- mained as one of the relics of the church save when used fer coronation of various empe-crs and kings. Thus was crowned there with by the pope in the year "A. and it was used for the corona ten of the emperOrs Otto IT, in 996, of Henry ". in 1OS1, and of other German emperors. in cluGing Charles V. in 1850. and Ferdi- mana I. in 1888. Tn first Napole likewise crowned himself wi-h the crown at Milan in 1895. exclaiminG "Gcd has given it to me. woe to whom soeVer shall touch it." Twice the crown was iA danger of being lost, once when the Torigiani lords of Milan nawned it in 1273 Git was mt red emed until 1319), and once again when it was sent to Avignon in France during the exile of the papacy there. It was re- turned to MOnza by Pope Clement VI. The crown now belongs to the King dom of Italy, although intrustld to the guardianship of -he Chapter of the Cathedral of Monza, which is forbidden by Italian law to abandon it's posses l sion even temporarily, save on receipt of a royal decree signed by the king. and countersigned by one of the cabi- net ministers.
 I may add that the crown consists of | broad hoop of gold adorned with pre- cious stones. round the interior of which is a thin strip of rusty iron, ! which tradition and popular belief pro- lounced to be one of the nails If the ,rcss. When the Austrians We're driv- | n out of Lombardy by the French and | Italian allied armies in 1859 they carried 1 he iron crown off with them 10 Vienna | md I cannot help thinking that to the 1 imperial house of Hapsburg one of the | most painful clauses of the trlaty | which brought to a conclusion the so ! lisa s;rous war of 1866 was that which | the r5igning family of Aus ria to surrender to Italy the iron crown which is to this day cOmmemorated in Austria by the highly prized Order of he Iron Crown.-Marquise de Fonte- Toy in Washington Post
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