The Warwickshire Herald. — 1891-08-13 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

LADIES' COLUMN.  (From Vanity Fatr.)  The Princess of Wales will presently visit the King and Queen of Denmark. Her Royal Highness will be accompanied to Copenhagen by Princess Victoria and Princess Maud, and by Prince George; and the Prince of Wales will join them when he leaves Homburg. The Czar and the King of the Ileßenee are also expected at Copenhagen.  With regard to Lord Salisbury's deficiency in art propensities, referred to by Sir Frederick L-ighton, story is told of one of Mr. Arthur Balfour'e brothers, who, being at one time an ardent apostle of the msthetic school, and posing as being ineffable and intense, was discussing the subject ot art. oulture with his uncle. Finding Lord Salisbury anything but responsive to his theories, he ob. served: "I am afraid, uncle, you are a sad !Philistine." Whereupon Lord Salisbury smiled, and responded : "In that case lam not the first who has suffered from the jawbone of an ass."  The Italian Government are spending money on war preparations at a rate that will leave very little room for the economies lately promised by the Finance Minister in the Chamber of Deputies Permanent batteries are being erected at an .normous cost in money and labour in front of tie French Alpine fortress of Briancon. On tie frontiers of Savoy magazines are being prepared on t scale that a few years ago would only have been "rdered if an outbreak of war were imminent. Tais month the Italian staff is carrying on a series ot ietailed reconnaissances in the Maritime Alps, and the Cacciatori degli Alpi, the rifle regiments raised in the frontier provincet, are being exercised in a 'ohmic campaign, much of which is being carrie,l on in the neigabourhood of the snow line. If a war with France should come, there will be some hard fighting in this quarter; and that in places hitherto mly visited by adventurous mountain climbers. Another posthumous work of the late Sir Edgar , Boehm will shortly be exposed to public view in I 'he Scadbury Chantry of the handsome parish church M St. Nicholas, Chislehurst. It is a statue of the late Lord Chamberlain, Lord Sydney, and is said to be a striking likeness. Sir Edgar had not finished it when his death occurred so suddenly; and, as in the case of the monument to Lord Napier of Magdala, Mr. Gilbert, R.A., has put the final touches to the work.  Vienna has been interested in the last few day! by the death and funeral of Baron von Scluinstein. His career began in the army, and with a large fortune. He very soon spent the whole of it, and, instead cf blowing his brains out, he left the army and became driver of a tramcar at Vienna, in which profession he died. Olin body was followed by a hundred trarmdrivers and by a large number of his relatives, who are all members of the Austrian aristocracy. Lieutenant-General F. W. Drummond, who died on Tuesday at Hawthornden, near Edtnburgh, was one of the oldest surviving veterans of the old Bengal Light Cavalry, having joined 'towards of 60 yews ago; and he had seen a great deal of active service. He was fatherdmlaw of Mr, Quinton, Chief Commissioner of Assam, whose cruel murder at Manipur last April caused the old soldier much sorrow.  Telegrams from Sofia state that the examination of the three men, Karaveloff, Oroschakoff, and Moloff, arrested on suspicion of complicity in the murier of the Bulgarian Finance Minister, N. Beltcheff, is so far advanced that the three have been formally charged with the crime  The foods in Bombay are subsiding, but they have done much harm and caused considerable loss of life in lihownuggur.  A woman named -i'largaret Harris died in great agony, at Pontypridd,on Saturday, through drinking bentoline in mistake for medicine. Eight mm who formed part of a gang who escaped from a police guard in Lower Burrnah after murdering two policemen, and who subsequently attacked another nolicc-station.haec been sentenced to death.