Nelson Chronicle, Colne Observer, and Clitheroe Division News. — 1890-10-03 (Nelson, Lancashire, England)

OWN CORIMPONDINT.]  LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. The wedding of the Princess Victoria with Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe will take place on Hoy. 21, and so the ceremonial will have • double Interest, as that date is the annivereary of the Zeipress Frederick's birthday. It is lamentable indeed that an event of such happy augury should les preceded by so tragic an affair as the suicide of a cadet of the house of Sahaumburg-Lippe, in the penile of the young Count of that house, who shot him-odf in Berhn at the early age of twenty.six, as the climax of a life apent in every sort of imprevidence and excess. Happily one is not responsible for the misdoing, of one's connectiene, but noes the lees the near coincidence of the enicide and wedding is regrettable enough. People who lauei 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 Berlie a big daily paper shich, it is reported, will be uscd to exprese the Emperor William's views and opinions on things in generel. Doubtless the Emperor will contribute liberally 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 Ksiser a newspaper can he made a powerful factor in tee government of the wide-spreading Vaterland. If Prince Bismerek'a health permits he will vitit Lord Rosebery at D simony next montn. If eueh should be the case, the grew: ex-Chancellor will also, in all probability, come to London and give Mr. Conrad Dressier eittines for his Lout. In the tweet of Prince Bismerek visiting Eaeland this &attune, be will be the guest of the Prices of Wales at Abergeldie, and the result of that chit in extending the entente tordi,ite between the most pnwerfel and distinguished floret' at the Ceurt of Berlin is not difficult to forecast. That wonderful Me Gladstone! La haul pnliti7ue, Armenian atrocities, raspberry jam, technical I eduzation, ox-tail soup. Greek myths, Shakespeare and the mueical glasses—no topic comes amiss to I him, and now he has taken up astrooomy. He hee written to • distineuished star-gaz2r to tell him that he he has just fiainhed reading the star-gazer's " luminous and delightful • Starland." The modest sage continues that, although he has been always fond of mathematical subjects, he is now glad to have everythipg imparted to him in a form in which a demand is made noon a diminishing stock of brain-power, and that he is consequently " enormously grateful" to the star-gazer for his "successful efforts in bringing himself down within the roach of feeble or shugish minds." Nu diminishing brain power, or, mental slugeiehness or fickleness in the cues of Mr. G:ailatene, I should may. One rather prefers to liken him to Michael Angelo, who, whoa he was past SO, made a picture of himself as sittiee in a go-cart, with the legend beneath, " Atmore impara "—"still he learns," I can give an unqualified denial to the canard that the Goveremout desires t) abandon the autumn session. Probably the date orik Melly fixed for the meeting, the third week in November, will be altered so that the Q mend syeeeh, which is this erasion only to oceuoy iive days, may be done with before December Ist, when the real tussle over the Irish Land Purehace v.:hem° and the Tithes 11111 will b 3 commeneed and contieuel onto the adjournment over Chrism ,s.  So the Now York /fentltl had twenty editors in as many mouths. Tee proverbial cooks who spoilt the broth me quite eclipsed. If American journalists could ever learn a lesacni in humility, this story of Mr. Gordon Brunette enterprise would be a useful homily. But there isn't a newspaper man over thn ocean who does not believe himself quite capable of revolutionising London jnirnal,sm. Why ahould the artliti.i belongings o' Sir Joseph Paxton, the famous gardensr of C istsworth, and protegd of the Duke of Devonshire, who finally became world.famous as the designer of the " House of glees " in Hyde Park in 1831, and of tie Crystal Palace, Sydenham. have found their way to an 'motion room at Waterford' Among the articles brought to the hemmer wane souff-hox of chased gold, surmounted by an Imperial crown and the initial " in brilliants, presentei to Sir Joseph Paxton by the E.uporor Napoleon 111. • . . . . . .  Anglers may 1.); interested in the statement which Mr. Brudiau.li publishes in last week's National g former. During 16 days' operations with the roi on one of Vie titun lochs, his "take of fish, all tat, I,ut not including cobblers, made 663 filh : weight 51:13 lb." An influential committee, with the Rev. Stoptord _ . .  Brooke as one of the honorary secretaries, bas been formed to purchase Dave Cottage, the residence for many years of the poet Wordsworth. The sum of £lOOO a(omplieh this ol jact. It was in. Dove . . .  Cottage that the "Prelude." and much of the *•Excureion" were written. Kr Walter Scott, Coleridge, end De Qoincey were otter tnere. To bay D.ive Cottage, and repair and preserve it, will be a fitting memorial to a poet whose memory is dby his oeuntrymen. William Wordsworth sang of the besot(' us pottery et the lake district in glowing w4rds that: will never die. Some time ago I sup,ested that it would be a good ei.elnlation on the part of sorne showman to import come of the King of Dahomey's Amszone. I see that the suggestion ii s been taken up. A number of thee° stalwart damsels are on their way to Benin, and sooner or later I preeurne they nal woes the Channel aud visit London. It ie to be hoped that they will not turn out such frauds Si' some of the fascinating Turkish women at the Parin exhibition, who bailed from the gay city itself. Madame Rause., the widow of the Italian minieter, married some years ago a Spaniard, and was eveo then considered one ot the most beautiful atd greceful women in Paris. She was always known as • singu'arly eccentric eheracter, and though rather teethei-brained, eminently astute. When she married Ilatizz,, she claimed, though a widow, the right to wear the orange-bloesom on her wedding day, thereby provoking wondrous exclamations and numberless queries. She openly awl - secretly conspired during the reign of .Napoleon the Third, and freqeently caused him much annoy. anoe and embarrassment. Her marriage with Etnilie Casteiar, ex. President of Spain, is the crowning of an extraordinary life.