The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-20
Archduke and Archduchess Rain
er Have Completed Sixty
Years of Married Life.
Y La MAnaUIsE DIE roSTENoY.

among the reigning houses of
NJ Europe. Diamond weddings axe
even still rarer. In fact, ! cam
, not recall any at the present moment.
the nearest approach thereto having
been George III. OF England. who, al
though a lunatic- lived to spend. with
Of their wedding and old Emperor VIII
liam OF Germany, who celebrated with
Empress Augusta the fifty-ninth an
niversary of their wedding only a Jew
months before his death.
! That is why the diamond wedding of
! Archduks and Archduchess Rainer of
Austria tomorrow. when they will
/ complete full sixty years OF s!ngulariy
happy marriage. will be- made sub
length and breadth OF the Dual En-
! pire.
| The only sorrow Of this threescore
years o. matrimonial alliance mas been
Lnat 1t has remained childless. But
| they have made an adopted child OF
! their niece and godchild, Maria Rain
| eria. Countess Taideck in her own
right, and daughter OF the late Arch
duke Henri. and of his inorganic tic
! whose deaths took place with ira gic
suddenness, at an interval OF only
few hours, at Vienna. Their orphan
daughter was thereupon adopted BY
Archduke RaIner, and is now the wife
or Count Enrico Lucchesi Palli, elev-
enth Prince OF Campofranco. and
j ninth Duke Della Grazia. 1t Is she
who will be the principal heircss of
the great wealth OF her uncle and
/ aunt.
! Arohduke and Archduchsss Rainer
are among the richest members OF the
| House of Hapsburs They are home
~ old COUPLE DO not mean IL In the
sense of plain lookins-who. although
possessed OF one of the finest palaces
In Vienna. and OF innumerable chat
| eaux and palaces elsewhere. were for
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| could snip away from Vienna and
travel about without gentlemen or
| ladies' in waiting. under the very
strictest incogn1o. and under the mos;
| bourgeois of names. touring quietly in
| switzerland, or else turning up In Eng
! land. where they would talk. up their
! quarters at Worth!ng, Bognor. or 9TH
or OF the quleter seaside resorts on
| Ing hotels. but In some unpretenttoua
lodgings; and both the archduke and
! arohduchess used sometimes after
! wards 10 Joke with Appropriateness who
knew OF their sojourns in England
about their pronounced tondness fot
that peculiarly English national dish
OF boiled mutton and caper sauce.
! The archduke Is doubly related tc
err having been princess Of the house
or savoy, while his sister. Archduchess
adelaide. was the Wife of the late
| hihS Victor EMMANUEL He was. there
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| Is granduncle OF the present King
| of italy The archduke and archd,ich.
| ess are, next 10 the Emperor, the most
popular members of the house OF
| through and through. his country be-
| ing indebted to him for the complete
| reorganization OF the Landwchr. which,
ne eommanded for so many years. he
I mas all MS life long been the one Au-
| strian prince of the blood who has
| inquired more prominently than any
otner as patron of everything per-
tanning TO science and art. To him.
! indeed, are the Austrlans indebted for
| the creation of the maGni flrcnt science
and art museum at Vienna. ana Of
| many similar Institutions throughout
.ho empire. IL was he, too. who was
the great international exhibition at
| Vienna in 1878. and OF the intcrna-
tional dramatic and musical exhibition
held In the Prater In $50.
world owes TO him the possess,o,l of
what Is probably the rarest collects
OF ancient papyrus records and manu-
I Ist1nss OF enc KIM IND, and another in
long before Egypt had been explored
| to the extent that 1t Is to-day, the
| archdukc spent nearly "A year In the
iand OF the Nile; and abandoning the
| neaten track of the ordinary tour
ISIS. devoted himself almost exclusive
| ly TO the exploration of the many
hundreds Of ancient coptic monas-
Ieries which dot tho GASES of the
Libyan Desert. and whiah were until
then terra incognita to Europe. He
passed from monastery to monastery
being in many instances. the first Eli.
roopean who had crossed their ih,.csh.
old i'll many centuries; and as they
were almost an of hem poverty s,rick-
en-, no took advantage thereof 10 biIy
from them all tho documents. books,
| and reading matter that wcro con-
! tanned in their libraries. lie did not
attempt to discriminate, but he
merely used his vast wealth to
purchase en- bloc everything of a ciocu-
nisntary character that they were
ready 10 sell
1t was not until long after his re-
| turn to Austria. and the safe arrival
at Trieste OF two entire. shiploads OF
documents thus collected. that the wis
dom of mis- enterprise. and It's price
less value TO history, religion. science
ana archaeology, commenced to be ap-
Trash there were found some OF the
earliest MANUSCRIPTS OF the Go spejs