Arizona republican., 1902-07-01
Gossip of Other Lands

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 Emperor William does not like Wag- ner. He does rot hesitate to express his distaste for the music Of the great Maestro of Baireuth. declaring that it is far too noisy and complicated, that Il conveys no meaning to him, and
 that in his opinion the works of Auber and Of Gluck are immeasurably su- peIior. Of Gluck the opera which the kaiser prefers above all the others is
 that entitled "Armide," while the
 Black Domino is the composition Of l Auber which he likes the best. i I mention this because a very wide i spread impression prevails to the eff ! ftct that the emperor s-ranatically de- ! voted to Wagrer's music, and that he i regards Wagner as the composer who. ] 0t all others, enlbodies to the greatest
 extent the Teutonic spirit, German | patriotism, and- legendary lore in his music
 There are quite a number of Euro
 pean soVereigns who share Emperor
 Williams views with regard to Nag-
 ner Indeed. the only crowned heads that have ever displayed any pro
 
 Queen Alexandria her sister, the wid-
 owed empress of Russia. the widowed queen of Italy and the young queen ot Portugal.
 Medical men seem 10 be coming to
 the fore just at present. ! physician is on the hig; road 10 become com . Eander-in-cllief O: the United States army in the person Of General Leonard , Wood, and the new prime minister oi Y France, Dr. Combes, is likewise a doc |, tor Of medicine. Before joining the : medical profession he was a priest, and . as the Abje Comoes figured fer sev- eral years as one of the professors of the College of the Assumption at Mines, where he Was renowned for his , rieIy. \ certain mystery prevails re garding the circumstances which led him to abandon the church for the . scalpel, and to convert his doctrine . divinity into one of medicine. But h , is nov as determined an opponent ot the demands O: the clerical party ir . France as he was formerly d champion . thereoi, and is not only one of the pill lars of French Freemasonry, but like . wise an aVoWcd atheist. In France. il may be remembered, atheism plays q great role iii Masonry. and it is owing to the intimate association between . the two that German. British. Scandi- naVian, and American Masons arG barred from Masouic intercourse witt . their French brethren.
 Tn a speech delivered in 156 by Pre- . l.-icr Combes at Be2uvais, he de nounced the religious beliefs of the day |, i..' more Or less absurd. and in any case erroneous, and as such bound l. . disaprear.
 , Dr. Combes, who, like the late N : Waddington, Gambetta. Spuller, etc. :, is Of foreign origin, the name whic2 . Ee bears being English. He is quite " short, but vet stoutly built with { . little bit of beard. He has the appear Q lnce indeed ot an elderly professor . and is about sixty-seve3I years O. age . Andrew Carnegie loses a warm anC . valued friend by the death Of LorC Acton, who had undertaken the by nC means easy task Of forming the pri vate library of the Scotch-Americar n.Ulti-millionaire at Skibo castle There were some 10000 volumes to b. : selected. and the money which Carnc , gie assigned for the purpose amounted . to $150,G0G.
 Lord Acton had almost completed : the task, and with him disappears on, D of the most learned and, in every sens, If the word, intellectual members O
 the upper house of Great Britains par
 liament. He was regius professor 0
 history of the University of Cambridg, and the late MT Gladstone, who Wa, no mean judge of men, was wont t
 declare that of all the persons that Ii, f had ever met Lord Acton was the on,
 whose learning covered the wides
 range and whose sources of Bnowledg, i were the most extensive.
 Lord Acton was born ct Naples as
 nephew Of the famous Cardinal Acton = who played so great Q role under tn, I old Bourbon regime at Naples, anC
 was married to a sister of the lat,
 Count Aroo. who for many years rep = lresented the German enpire at Wash