The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1890-10-04 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

ALL TILE WI ) LD OVER.  The wedOing i if the Princess Prince .\d If of Schaumburg-Lippe will take place on November 21.. and so the cerruninial will have a double interest, as that date is the iumi vi rsary of the Empress Frederick's birthday. It is lamentable indeed that an event it suit happy augury should lie preceded by so tragic iiiaffair as the suicide of a cadet of the house of Schaumburg- Lippe, in the person of the young count of that name, who slut himself in Berlin, it the early ag F twenty-six, es the climax of a life spent in every sort of intprividence and excess. Happily (liii i not rtisponsible for the misdoings ot 011e'S but none till itlSrl the near coincidence 44 the suicide , and Wedding is regrettable em nigh.  Peiple who laugh At the power of the newspapers are recommended to take note of the interesting fact that on the first of next month there will be started in Berlin a big daily paper, which, it is reported, will be used to express the Emperor William's views and opinions on things in general. Doubtless the Emperor will contribute Itherallv towards the cost of running the paper, and in that case he will be literally its proprietor. A Monarch as a newspaper proprietor is something new. It Certainly proves that in the eyes of the Kaiser a newspaper Clll be made it powerful factor in the government of the wide-spreading Vatcrland.  If Prince Bismarck's health permits he will visit Lord ROsebery, at Dalmeny, next month. If such should be the ease, the great ex-Chancellor will also, in all probability, come to London and give Mr. Conrad Dressler sittings for his bust. In the event of Prince Bismarck visiting England this autumn, he will be the guest of the Prince of Wales at Abergeldie, and the result of that visit in extending the Mode esaiate between the most powerful and distinguished figures at the Court of Berlin is not difficult to forecast.  I can give an unqualified denial to the canard that the Government desires to abandon the autumn session. Probably the date originally fixed for the meeting—the third week in November—will be altered so that the Queen's Speech, which is this year only to occupy five days, may be done with before December 1, when the real tussle over the Irish Land Purchase scheme and the Tithes Bill will be commenced and continued on to the adjournment over Christmas.  So the Noe York Herald had twenty editors in as many months. The proverbial cooks who spoilt the broth are quite eclipsed. If American journalists could ever learn a lesson in humility, this story of Mr. Gordon Bennett's enterprise would be a useful homily. But there isn't a newspaper man over the ocean who does not believe himself quite capable of revolutionising London journalism.  Why should the artistic belongings of Sir Joseph Paxton, the famous gardener of Chatsworth, and protege of the Duke of Devonshire, and who finally became world-famous as the designer of the "House of Glass" in Hyde Park in 1851, and of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham, have found their way to an auction room at Waterford? Among the articles brought to the hammer was a snuff-box of chased gold surmounted by an imperial Cr wn and the initial " N " in brilliants, presented to Sir Joseph Paxton by the Emperor Napoleon 111.  Anglers may be interested in the statement which Mr. Bmdlaugh publi-thes in last week's National Reformer. During sixteen days operations with the rod on one of the Scotch lochs, his "take of fish, all told, but ti,t including cobblers, made 668 fish, weight 5041h5.'•  Three months' imprisonment for saying that the German Emperor will end by becoming a Social Democrat! That is the sentence just passed on a German Socialist. The offence, it seems, comes under the head of "high treason" in Germany. What must the German Government think of the editors of the Times and other English reactionary journals wbo have again and again asserted that Kaiser William is drifting into Socialism?  Madame Ratazzi, the widow of the Italian Minister, married some years ago a Spaniard, and was even then considered one of the most beautiful and graceful women in Paris. She was always known as a singularly eccentric character, and eminently astute. When she married Ratazzi, she claimed, though a widow, the right to wear the orange-blossom on her wedding day, thereby provoking wondrous exclamations and numberless queries. Her marriage with Emilio Castelar, exPresident of Spain, is the crowning of an extraordinary life.  A gcod story reaches me from the somewhat outof-the-way region of Petaluna. Early last week, all was going merrily at a very interesting wedding in the town until the bridegroom was called upon to produce the wedding-ring. In vain he felt in his trousers-pocket for the missing trifle. Nothing could be found except a hole, through which the ring had evidently fallen into the high boot which is affected by young men of that country. What was he to do 1' "Take your boot off," said the parson. The suspense and silence were painful. The organist, at the priest's bidding, struck up a "voluntary." The young man, sitting on the altar rails, removed the boot. The ring WM found—also a hole in the stocking, which led the worthy divine to remark, "Young man, it is time you were married !"