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Show ThtSiwKlal nd O.aeinof Sp.ln. So much interest is taken in the incidents in-cidents of the great European war that little is said about the newly selected se-lected of Spain and his family relations. A few facts in this connection may not be inappropriate at this time. We quote from the New York Evening Fe n : The young man who is called to the perilous eminence of the Spanish throne, and who has acceptel the honor, is Prince Amadeu? Ferdinand Maria, the second son and third child of King Victor Emanuel of Italy and of the Queen Marie-Adelaide, who was an Austrian princess, and died in ISjO. Prince Amadeus was born in Turin on the 30th of May, 1S4.J, and in lSf.7 married a youDg lady two years younger young-er than himself, who rejoices in the elaborate nam of Vietoria-Carlotta-flenrietta-Gianna dal Poeo della Cis-teina. Cis-teina. She is the daughter of Prince Charles ct cetera Cistema and of a Countess of Merode. Both of her parents have died during the last few years; and during their lires never could haye dreamed that their daughter daugh-ter would sit on the throne of the Isabellas. Prince Amadeus takes his title of Duke of Aosta from a shabby little town which lies in the north of Piedmont, under the shadow of the Alps, and at the foot of the well-known pass of St. Bernard. He is a Lieu-temnt-General in the Italian army, and commands a brigade of cavalry. By his elevation to ths throne of Spain, the governing houses of Italy and the Iberian Ibe-rian peninsula will hold unusually close relations, for the Princess Maria Pia, a young daughter of Victor Emanuel, is Queen of Portugal, having in 1862 married King Louis. The eldest child of the Italian King, it will be remembered, remem-bered, is the Princess Clothilde, wife of Prince Napoleon. Her career seems to be much less exalted than those of the other members of her family. The new King of Spain is a young man, a little over twenty-five years of age, and so far has 6een but little of public life. In Italy he is very well liked. He has beeu brought up in the school of constitutional con-stitutional monarchy, and ought to make an honest and liberal ruler. |