Show BORN norn TO woodluck LU LUCK I 1 L nearly half halt a the star bf the cobourg family roeln ro rose eln ein in the asterid ant and has shone with considerable arf ane anc y ever since in may 1816 prince leopold of saxe cobourg cob bourg married the only daughter of the prince regent afterward george IV of england and after her death in the following year the duke of kent espoused lq leopolds sister became the mother motha of af queen victoria ever since the have been steadily pushing on leopold after sensibly refusing the crown of greece accepted that of belgium i and has hav conducted himself very correctly in that busy and chri thriving vig little kingdom Ing dom every now and t lien then when his subjects show a desire fo fur for r change many of them wish to be united with france he lie ades goes down do wn to the legislative chambers orinto or into the park at brussels as the case may be and plainly tells allcon all ail concerned cerne d that l if f they are tired of him there need not be the slightest delicacy or hesitation in saying so for that he ha will paek pack up his 1118 portmanteau at a moments notice and retire reto to england where he ean can enjoy armont clarmont Ol and a year which tm the british Britis li parliament settled on hirni hinni when he married the princess charlotte chariotte and to which though he has nobre notre 1 this per Pel bellson penson lsOn sinco since be king lie he has prudently retained the right iju ri should evil dasa daya arise lse ise when the Belg beig belgians lams iams hear him speaking in this manner mannet they hang their heads and sneak home like children who have been caught in ili the act of robbing an orchard and alid remain quiet for a con sid erable time the fact is king leppold is one of the wisest and most prudent sovereigns in europe and andthil this personal character has madea made a naturally insignificant state belgium not being one quarter as large as pennsylvania very import important ait alt among the european nations were leopold to carry out his threat of leaving them ithe belgians would soon find th insignificant leopolds second lifts was an eadel excellent gentlewoman the tite eldest daughter of Louis bouis Philippe for eighteen years citizen king of the tile french tho the modern Ulys ulysses ses sea who wasso was so remarkably crafty that he ended by pa taking himself ill in which ieno leno led to his deetion ejection croin kroin france leopold has married his to ar an austrian archduchess aroh arch duchess his only in law of the emperor of Aust austrin austria became empress of mexico a few months mouths agoy ago and his second son is spoken of at as likely to espouse the princes januaria San uaria of brazil a charming young woman with a round dozen of christian names who on the death of don pedro 11 II 11 her hen father fathey will become dei del deigning cei C gning empress of brazil one of tu the Co bourga mairl mairi married edthe the late queen 1 donna marla maria de GIoria giorla of portugal and is now a sort of dowager king consort I 1 another cousin became husband of the lii lil ili cl 1 in me ntine entine 0 ol 01 frayde fyme irme irm e and nii hii n i i i ngot of 1 i the li iotte lotte printe prince i ti i v i i jn aia aap ibi 1 noum boum poum nm 1 N u 14 ot cr 0 lff LC rog roc rom ding luk lul ot abt alk max sax t c ll 11 i 1 10 ra iee lee became ame husband to queen victoria ot op england and nather father to her lifer nine princes and princesses the have indeed been very lucky in otheir ein eln matrimonial alliances th there ere ene is another family now adf reigning igei in in denmark debi mark whose good fortune for tune tane appears appeals likely to rival riyal that of t the b e I 1 lueky lucky uck y eleven years sears ars ago prince christian of GO Glucks bourg a cadet of the second and inferior houd of holstein was adopted by the law of 1853 aa heir presumptive to the throne of denmark then occupied by frederic VII VM who represented thes thet principal rin cipal line of heistein danemark at that time he was only thirty five years old so poor that 1 it t is doubtful I 1 if his princely revenues were as much as copo per annum he was selected because in the contest of 1818 1848 1850 with pruss prussia a 1 he alone among the cadets cabets of the tn two 0 inferior branches of the holstein family had taken up arms on behalf of denmark thus prince Cb christian ristian became heir to the danish throne to which he succeeded ded about a year ago tago hitherto Hither he has hasteen been a very unfortunate sovereign for the domb combined ined arins arms of prussia and austia have taken from frum him more than one third of his territory while england france russia and the other powers which actually placed him on the throne dan can coldly id held aloof and allowed the germans to perpetrate one of the greatest spoliations committed since the partition of poland personally however king christian of D denmark e amark has had and is hav having in a large share of good fortune his eldest married to the prince of IV vales ales will one dab day be queen consort of eagland Ep gland and her infant son may live to reign ili in turn his se second cond son who is not yet twenty years old was little more than sixteen when he wag was made alade jang king of greece and is spoken of as us about marrying a russian princess his second daughter daug the princess dagmar in ai it has been officially anjou announced need I 1 ha been selected by the to become his hia wife andin and in fullness of time will probably become empress of russia the is twenty one and the princess dagmar not quite seventeen years of age herd here is abundant good fortune for foro one ne family the tile father rises from genteel poverty to a throne one orie daughter weds the heir to the british crown the other is to marry the eldest son of the emperor Frap ernp eror of russi bussi a the great empire aich which thanks to the sagacity and liberality of df the present czar exhibits more social progress than any other country in Eur europe and the second son who would ivoun have been a nobody at home has become ring king of the helleness Helle nesy a dignity y which with sufficient melen lelen t support from rom without he may render useful to a people who with ditl many faults of character are brave and intelligent as becomes the descend descendants anti of the great i greek republics of antiquity A |