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Show DOINGS OF ROYALTY. Gatchina, the czar's home, contains 700 rooms. The queen of Italy received as a birthday birth-day present from her husband recently a superb ruby ring. Tho German kaiser rises every morning morn-ing at 7. He takes a cold shower bath, is shaved and shampooed, and by 7:30 is ready for breakfast with the empress. The hereditary prince of Nassau is regarded re-garded as a suitor to one of the daughters daugh-ters of tho Prince of Wales. He is a handsome young fellow, somewhat professorial. pro-fessorial. The Duchess of Connanght and hep husband gave the Princess Victoria of Prussia five rows of pearls, each row having a pendant the first diamonds, the second sapphires, the third moonstones, moon-stones, the fourth emeralds and the fifth; rubies. King William of Holland wonld nevet permit his daughter to learn German, although it is her mother's native tongue. Now that she is queen and her own mistress mis-tress as well, she will probably be tanghti German. The little queen speaks French) to peifection. The Archduko diaries Louis, heir-presumptive heir-presumptive to the Austrian throne, has; limited all his sons to an allowance of fifty florins a month until the dav of their majority. At IS an archnkf steps per saltum into full liberty aud aa j income of at least 20,000. |