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Show DOM PEDRO IN EXILE. B If tajojkst Biasaclf U Ike BeaViUial Cspltal t TAmtt. THE BITI8H 0UTH AFRICA COMPANY'S CLDORADO. lieswral Bootli Ukeljr to haececd; aswjr PtwrlBf ! Fnwls-. CRUCLT1CS RCVIVCO IN THE CZAR'S DOMINION. A SKMsslal Shot st tkeJT Blr LerUtkaa af tke By Tciegrapa to the Saws.1 OTALTT IV PAB1S. areata Xajey Ufa la til atSBwh-I atSBwh-I least Capital. Paris, Not. S3 Republican capital, cap-ital, though It Is, this city la yet the Mecca ol all the royalties of Europe. There are always morn rojaluen here than In any other capital, and at time there are go many uf them tLat it looks as though a uolTeaal Menajrhlcal Congren was being held. Among those who are here at present none deserreg more consideration con-sideration than Pedro Dalcantara, who, np to a year ago, was known as Com Pedro II, Emperor of Bra all. He Is haring a capital time, and Is not at all likely to spend Saturday Sat-urday cf next ,week In mourning, albeit that It will be the flrataunl Ternary of the rerolutlon which made him a crownleas or throneles exile. One might well believe that this amiable old gentleman has forgotten all about that episode, and, Indeed, all about hla years of sorerelgnty, and has persuaded himself that he has always been simply a priratr gentleman of domestic habits and scIeaUflc tastes. Despite his age and his uncertain health, he is eu-Joylng eu-Joylng Paris to the full. Everyday sees him going about from place to place with the Interest and vigor ol a young man. Une day he is at the Invalides, contemplating the tomb of Banaparte; the next day finds him at the Academy of Btlencea, taking an active interest in Its proceedings pro-ceedings and presenting to it a priceless price-less collection of autographs; the third ilay sees him studying ethnology ethnol-ogy at the Trocadere and meteorology meteor-ology from the top of the Eiffel tower; the next day finds him lu the picture galleries of Versailles, and also at the college de IVEudbtes, where his grandchildren are being educated. 3ext week he will go to Cannes for the winter, but he proposes pro-poses to improve every hour of the present week in Paris. |
