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Show DOINGS OF ROYALTY. Princess Victoria, a sister of the young emperor of Germany, has decided to pass her life in single blessedness, and will set up an establishment of her own in London. . . Prince Bismarck has decided to make Friedrichsruhe his future home in preference pref-erence to his- other estates, and has ordered or-dered houses to be erected near the palace pal-ace for his clerks and assistants. Bathers and pedestrians on the beach at Trouville, France, were astonished recently re-cently to see the Princess de Sagan appear ap-pear in a bathing costume one side white, the other blue, the idea being carried out to' the details of gloves, buttons but-tons and shoes. King Humbert is a prudent monarch, and does well to be so, in the present state of the kingdom's finances. Last year the civil list for the royal household house-hold was 15,350,000 francs, and the king spent 15,849,999 francs 92 centimes, leaving leav-ing a cent and three-quarters to his credit for the ensuing year. Emperor lain has some respect for America. For the occasion of the entry of the American riflemen into Berlin he gave orders that the Stars and Stripes should be saluted with 101 guns when the palace was reached, and that a company com-pany of the Imperial Guards should form an escort of honor to the flag. The Emperor Napoleon very rarely wrote a letter by his own hand, and those few whidh do exist are mostly in Italian. He usually dictated to a secretary secre-tary at such a rapid rate that the amanuensis aman-uensis had to fill up gaps from memory, and it is a funny fact that most of big love letters to Josephine were thus dictated. |