Contemporary Portraits: Leopold II., King of Belgium [pp. 587-588]

Appletons' journal: a magazine of general literature. / Volume 7, Issue 165

1872.]VABIETIEL- CONTEJIIPOBAB Y PORTBAITS. 587 Nine hundred and forty ladies of Madrid have publicly declared that they will henceforth discard French fashions, and wear again the national costume of Spain-mantillas, high combs, short skirts, and open shoes without heels. The expenses of the French Government for 1872 will amount to two billion, three hun dred and thirty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand, five hundred and twenty-two francs. Frederick Kapp, formerly of New York, defeated at the election for the German Parliament a nobleman with whom, many years ago, he had fought a duel at the University of Hei delberg. Among the recent pretenders to the Spanish throne is a mysterious personage calling himself Count Blanc, and asserting that he is a son of King Ferdinand VII. Bismarck's estate in Lauenburg embraces twenty-two thousand five hundred acres, but yields him at present only an annual income of thirty thousand dollars. When Rochefort was brought on board the man-of-war that was to take him to New Caledonia, he distributed two thousand francs among the sailors of the ship. The Swedish Government offers a prize for an essay on the best means of putting a stop to the rapidly-increasing emigration of the rural population from that country. The site on which the building of the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will be erected is six times larger than that on which the exhibition palace in Paris was constructed in 1867. - Mademoiselle Pauline Lucca will receive from Strakosch fifty thousand dollars and all her expenses paid, for a five-months' tour in the United States in 1873. The Hospodar of Roumania has announced his intention to travel in Western Europe. It is believed in Bucharest that he will never return to Roumania. It is believed in Paris that the libel-suit of General Trochu against the proprietors of the Figaro will give rise to no less than twenty duels. Charles Sartorius, the well-known German naturalist, died lately on his plantation near Vera Cruz. The catalogue of the new University Library of Strasbourg embraces one hundred and seventy-three thousand volumes. The Prussian Minister of War has issued a decree for the organization of a military corps of aeronauts. The eldest daughter of Theophile Gautier is the best musical critic and teacher of the Chinese language in France. The Empress of Russia has been robbed of all her diamonds and jewelry. The theft was committed by six of her footmen. The Paris Monde demands that crosses and pious inscriptions be placed upon all the public monuments in Paris. Colonel Max Woisky, a Saxon officer, who saved Napoleon's life at the battle of Dresden, died recently in that city. Nine persons were killed at a recent parliamentary election in Hungary. Gambetta, Ledru-Rollin, Victor Hugo, and Louis Blanc, the leaders of the French republicans, are all wealthy. Emile de Girardin will devote the next two years to a lecturing-tour through France, Belgium, Holland, and England. Heindrich, the headsman of Paris, is dead. He left his two daughters a fortune of four hundred thousand francs. The Emperor'of Germany receives every day three hundred letters soliciting pecuniary assistance. The Queen of Holland has purchased the original MS. of Mozart's "Magic Flute " for two thousand dollars. An International Exhibition of Oil-paintings will take place next year in Berlin, under the auspices of the Crownii-Princess Victoria. There are thirteen hundred and sixteen telegraph-stations in Germany. Two thousand and nine new novels were published in France in 1871. Italian composers published last year thirtysix new operas. The -wife of Prince Pierre Bonaparte has opened a small dry-goods store in London. tidi, A DETROIT man, who had contributed a bundle of cast-off clothing for the relief of the victims of the Minnesota fire, received from one of the sufferers the following note: "The committy man giv me, amongst other things, wat he called a pare ov pants, and 'twood make me pant sum to ware'em. I found your name an' where you live on one of the pokits. My wife laffed so when I shode 'em to her that I thot she woold have a conipshun fit. She wants to no if there lives and brethes a man who has legs no bigger than that. She sed if there was he orter to be taken up for vagrinsy fur havin' no visible means ov support. I couldent get'em on my oldest boy, so I used'em fur gun cases. If you hav another are to spare my wife wood like to get'em to hang up by the side ov the fireplace to keep the tongs in." Titian's "Madonna with the Veil," which was generally believed to have been destroyed at the storming and sacking of Rome by the Constable of Bourbon, has been found again among the pictures in an old chateau belonging to the late Dr. Riteri. The professors of the Academy of Turin pronounce it to be the genuine picture. A Michigan tavern-keeper has this evasive arrangement: You put your ten cents on a spot marked "whiskey;" the apparatus revolves, and directly you see a glass of whiskey standing before you, and you don't know, of course, who gave it to you, or how it came there. A person who wrote to Treasurer Spinner asking for his autograph and a sentiment," received the following reply: "You ask for my autograph with a sentiment. My sentiment is this: When a gentleman writes another on his own business, he should enclose a postage-stamp." Sweet butter can be purchased in Carroll County, Virginia, for twelve to fifteen cents; while the storekeepers and farmers of that delightful region don't think of asking more than ten cents for a dozen eggs. Two absurd young men want to be admitmitted to Vassar College because it is leapyear. To mothers: You shouldn't let the children read Watts's poems, they contain much hymnmorality. The English immigrant to this country is harder to root than any other transplanted foreigner. He has less than the ordinary facility for making new acquaintances; and, finding few of his countrymen here, has a very homesick and heart-sick time of it. Swindlers tried to seduce a Western man on a railroad train into betting that he could open a patent padlock which they carried about. He took the bet, and opened the lock with a sledge hammer. The Napier family, a member of which has been appointed Governor-General of India, are a lucky race. Their great merit seems to be, to be always at hand when offices, or military or naval commands, become vacant. It is seldom that a man shoots himself in splitting wood; but a Kentuckian accomplished the feat successfully recently, by hitting a pistol in his pocket with the axe-handle. A German writer, complaining of the difficulties in the pronunciation of the English language, cites the word Boz, which he says is pronounced Dickens. The Mormon sisters of Ephraim, Utah, lay aside all the eggs their hens lay on Sunday and devote the proceeds to paying the fare of Mormons desirous of emigrating from other nations. This is literally egging them on. Before Paris became mistress of modes, Milan prescribed the mo, i for bonnets; hence the name milliner for l ic fabricator of the crowning glory of well-dressed womanhood. " Excuse haste and a bad pen," as the pig said when he broke out. . frnroa~ ~ohiai. Leopold II., King of the Belgians. HE kingdom of Belgium, the youngest member of the European family of states, has thus far had an exceedingly happy and prosperous existence, thanks to the wise and just government of its first king Leopold, who was much beloved and is gratefully remembered by his people. When Leopold I. died, in 1865, and was succeeded by his son Leopold II., the latter had only to follow in the footsteps of his father in order to insure the prosperity of his subjects. This he has done. At the age of thirty, he was welcomed to the throne by the people; for, although his father had given him no part in the direction of the affairs of the state, he had, nevertheless, won the confidence of his future subjects. Leopold II. is the son of the aforetime Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-King of the Belgians, July 21, 1831-and the Princess Louise of Orleans, eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, and was born April 9, 1835, in Brussels. The direction of his education was first intrusted to Major Hallard, and subsequently to General De Launoy and Baron Prisse. In 1840 he received from his father the title of Duke of Brabant, which in future will be the title of all the crown-princes of Belgium. His course of study was the same as that usually pursued by all royal princes. At eleven years of age, he entered the army, with the rank of second lieutenant, and, one by one, ascended the steps of the military ladder, the highest of which is the rank of lieutenant-general, which he reached a short time previous to his succeeding to the throne. At eighteen, he was declared of full age, and accompanied his father on a visit to Vienna, the object of which was to marry the young duke to an Austrian princess. The choice of the father fell on the Archduchess Marie Henriette, born August 23, 1836, daughter of the late Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary. The marriage was celebrated at Brussels, August 22, 1853, the duke being then 1872.] VARIETIES.- CONTEMPORAR Y POR TRAITS. 587 0


1872.]VABIETIEL- CONTEJIIPOBAB Y PORTBAITS. 587 Nine hundred and forty ladies of Madrid have publicly declared that they will henceforth discard French fashions, and wear again the national costume of Spain-mantillas, high combs, short skirts, and open shoes without heels. The expenses of the French Government for 1872 will amount to two billion, three hun dred and thirty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand, five hundred and twenty-two francs. Frederick Kapp, formerly of New York, defeated at the election for the German Parliament a nobleman with whom, many years ago, he had fought a duel at the University of Hei delberg. Among the recent pretenders to the Spanish throne is a mysterious personage calling himself Count Blanc, and asserting that he is a son of King Ferdinand VII. Bismarck's estate in Lauenburg embraces twenty-two thousand five hundred acres, but yields him at present only an annual income of thirty thousand dollars. When Rochefort was brought on board the man-of-war that was to take him to New Caledonia, he distributed two thousand francs among the sailors of the ship. The Swedish Government offers a prize for an essay on the best means of putting a stop to the rapidly-increasing emigration of the rural population from that country. The site on which the building of the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will be erected is six times larger than that on which the exhibition palace in Paris was constructed in 1867. - Mademoiselle Pauline Lucca will receive from Strakosch fifty thousand dollars and all her expenses paid, for a five-months' tour in the United States in 1873. The Hospodar of Roumania has announced his intention to travel in Western Europe. It is believed in Bucharest that he will never return to Roumania. It is believed in Paris that the libel-suit of General Trochu against the proprietors of the Figaro will give rise to no less than twenty duels. Charles Sartorius, the well-known German naturalist, died lately on his plantation near Vera Cruz. The catalogue of the new University Library of Strasbourg embraces one hundred and seventy-three thousand volumes. The Prussian Minister of War has issued a decree for the organization of a military corps of aeronauts. The eldest daughter of Theophile Gautier is the best musical critic and teacher of the Chinese language in France. The Empress of Russia has been robbed of all her diamonds and jewelry. The theft was committed by six of her footmen. The Paris Monde demands that crosses and pious inscriptions be placed upon all the public monuments in Paris. Colonel Max Woisky, a Saxon officer, who saved Napoleon's life at the battle of Dresden, died recently in that city. Nine persons were killed at a recent parliamentary election in Hungary. Gambetta, Ledru-Rollin, Victor Hugo, and Louis Blanc, the leaders of the French republicans, are all wealthy. Emile de Girardin will devote the next two years to a lecturing-tour through France, Belgium, Holland, and England. Heindrich, the headsman of Paris, is dead. He left his two daughters a fortune of four hundred thousand francs. The Emperor'of Germany receives every day three hundred letters soliciting pecuniary assistance. The Queen of Holland has purchased the original MS. of Mozart's "Magic Flute " for two thousand dollars. An International Exhibition of Oil-paintings will take place next year in Berlin, under the auspices of the Crownii-Princess Victoria. There are thirteen hundred and sixteen telegraph-stations in Germany. Two thousand and nine new novels were published in France in 1871. Italian composers published last year thirtysix new operas. The -wife of Prince Pierre Bonaparte has opened a small dry-goods store in London. tidi, A DETROIT man, who had contributed a bundle of cast-off clothing for the relief of the victims of the Minnesota fire, received from one of the sufferers the following note: "The committy man giv me, amongst other things, wat he called a pare ov pants, and 'twood make me pant sum to ware'em. I found your name an' where you live on one of the pokits. My wife laffed so when I shode 'em to her that I thot she woold have a conipshun fit. She wants to no if there lives and brethes a man who has legs no bigger than that. She sed if there was he orter to be taken up for vagrinsy fur havin' no visible means ov support. I couldent get'em on my oldest boy, so I used'em fur gun cases. If you hav another are to spare my wife wood like to get'em to hang up by the side ov the fireplace to keep the tongs in." Titian's "Madonna with the Veil," which was generally believed to have been destroyed at the storming and sacking of Rome by the Constable of Bourbon, has been found again among the pictures in an old chateau belonging to the late Dr. Riteri. The professors of the Academy of Turin pronounce it to be the genuine picture. A Michigan tavern-keeper has this evasive arrangement: You put your ten cents on a spot marked "whiskey;" the apparatus revolves, and directly you see a glass of whiskey standing before you, and you don't know, of course, who gave it to you, or how it came there. A person who wrote to Treasurer Spinner asking for his autograph and a sentiment," received the following reply: "You ask for my autograph with a sentiment. My sentiment is this: When a gentleman writes another on his own business, he should enclose a postage-stamp." Sweet butter can be purchased in Carroll County, Virginia, for twelve to fifteen cents; while the storekeepers and farmers of that delightful region don't think of asking more than ten cents for a dozen eggs. Two absurd young men want to be admitmitted to Vassar College because it is leapyear. To mothers: You shouldn't let the children read Watts's poems, they contain much hymnmorality. The English immigrant to this country is harder to root than any other transplanted foreigner. He has less than the ordinary facility for making new acquaintances; and, finding few of his countrymen here, has a very homesick and heart-sick time of it. Swindlers tried to seduce a Western man on a railroad train into betting that he could open a patent padlock which they carried about. He took the bet, and opened the lock with a sledge hammer. The Napier family, a member of which has been appointed Governor-General of India, are a lucky race. Their great merit seems to be, to be always at hand when offices, or military or naval commands, become vacant. It is seldom that a man shoots himself in splitting wood; but a Kentuckian accomplished the feat successfully recently, by hitting a pistol in his pocket with the axe-handle. A German writer, complaining of the difficulties in the pronunciation of the English language, cites the word Boz, which he says is pronounced Dickens. The Mormon sisters of Ephraim, Utah, lay aside all the eggs their hens lay on Sunday and devote the proceeds to paying the fare of Mormons desirous of emigrating from other nations. This is literally egging them on. Before Paris became mistress of modes, Milan prescribed the mo, i for bonnets; hence the name milliner for l ic fabricator of the crowning glory of well-dressed womanhood. " Excuse haste and a bad pen," as the pig said when he broke out. . frnroa~ ~ohiai. Leopold II., King of the Belgians. HE kingdom of Belgium, the youngest member of the European family of states, has thus far had an exceedingly happy and prosperous existence, thanks to the wise and just government of its first king Leopold, who was much beloved and is gratefully remembered by his people. When Leopold I. died, in 1865, and was succeeded by his son Leopold II., the latter had only to follow in the footsteps of his father in order to insure the prosperity of his subjects. This he has done. At the age of thirty, he was welcomed to the throne by the people; for, although his father had given him no part in the direction of the affairs of the state, he had, nevertheless, won the confidence of his future subjects. Leopold II. is the son of the aforetime Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-King of the Belgians, July 21, 1831-and the Princess Louise of Orleans, eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, and was born April 9, 1835, in Brussels. The direction of his education was first intrusted to Major Hallard, and subsequently to General De Launoy and Baron Prisse. In 1840 he received from his father the title of Duke of Brabant, which in future will be the title of all the crown-princes of Belgium. His course of study was the same as that usually pursued by all royal princes. At eleven years of age, he entered the army, with the rank of second lieutenant, and, one by one, ascended the steps of the military ladder, the highest of which is the rank of lieutenant-general, which he reached a short time previous to his succeeding to the throne. At eighteen, he was declared of full age, and accompanied his father on a visit to Vienna, the object of which was to marry the young duke to an Austrian princess. The choice of the father fell on the Archduchess Marie Henriette, born August 23, 1836, daughter of the late Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary. The marriage was celebrated at Brussels, August 22, 1853, the duke being then 1872.] VARIETIES.- CONTEMPORAR Y POR TRAITS. 587 0


1872.]VABIETIEL- CONTEJIIPOBAB Y PORTBAITS. 587 Nine hundred and forty ladies of Madrid have publicly declared that they will henceforth discard French fashions, and wear again the national costume of Spain-mantillas, high combs, short skirts, and open shoes without heels. The expenses of the French Government for 1872 will amount to two billion, three hun dred and thirty-four million, seven hundred and seventy-eight thousand, five hundred and twenty-two francs. Frederick Kapp, formerly of New York, defeated at the election for the German Parliament a nobleman with whom, many years ago, he had fought a duel at the University of Hei delberg. Among the recent pretenders to the Spanish throne is a mysterious personage calling himself Count Blanc, and asserting that he is a son of King Ferdinand VII. Bismarck's estate in Lauenburg embraces twenty-two thousand five hundred acres, but yields him at present only an annual income of thirty thousand dollars. When Rochefort was brought on board the man-of-war that was to take him to New Caledonia, he distributed two thousand francs among the sailors of the ship. The Swedish Government offers a prize for an essay on the best means of putting a stop to the rapidly-increasing emigration of the rural population from that country. The site on which the building of the Vienna Exhibition of 1873 will be erected is six times larger than that on which the exhibition palace in Paris was constructed in 1867. - Mademoiselle Pauline Lucca will receive from Strakosch fifty thousand dollars and all her expenses paid, for a five-months' tour in the United States in 1873. The Hospodar of Roumania has announced his intention to travel in Western Europe. It is believed in Bucharest that he will never return to Roumania. It is believed in Paris that the libel-suit of General Trochu against the proprietors of the Figaro will give rise to no less than twenty duels. Charles Sartorius, the well-known German naturalist, died lately on his plantation near Vera Cruz. The catalogue of the new University Library of Strasbourg embraces one hundred and seventy-three thousand volumes. The Prussian Minister of War has issued a decree for the organization of a military corps of aeronauts. The eldest daughter of Theophile Gautier is the best musical critic and teacher of the Chinese language in France. The Empress of Russia has been robbed of all her diamonds and jewelry. The theft was committed by six of her footmen. The Paris Monde demands that crosses and pious inscriptions be placed upon all the public monuments in Paris. Colonel Max Woisky, a Saxon officer, who saved Napoleon's life at the battle of Dresden, died recently in that city. Nine persons were killed at a recent parliamentary election in Hungary. Gambetta, Ledru-Rollin, Victor Hugo, and Louis Blanc, the leaders of the French republicans, are all wealthy. Emile de Girardin will devote the next two years to a lecturing-tour through France, Belgium, Holland, and England. Heindrich, the headsman of Paris, is dead. He left his two daughters a fortune of four hundred thousand francs. The Emperor'of Germany receives every day three hundred letters soliciting pecuniary assistance. The Queen of Holland has purchased the original MS. of Mozart's "Magic Flute " for two thousand dollars. An International Exhibition of Oil-paintings will take place next year in Berlin, under the auspices of the Crownii-Princess Victoria. There are thirteen hundred and sixteen telegraph-stations in Germany. Two thousand and nine new novels were published in France in 1871. Italian composers published last year thirtysix new operas. The -wife of Prince Pierre Bonaparte has opened a small dry-goods store in London. tidi, A DETROIT man, who had contributed a bundle of cast-off clothing for the relief of the victims of the Minnesota fire, received from one of the sufferers the following note: "The committy man giv me, amongst other things, wat he called a pare ov pants, and 'twood make me pant sum to ware'em. I found your name an' where you live on one of the pokits. My wife laffed so when I shode 'em to her that I thot she woold have a conipshun fit. She wants to no if there lives and brethes a man who has legs no bigger than that. She sed if there was he orter to be taken up for vagrinsy fur havin' no visible means ov support. I couldent get'em on my oldest boy, so I used'em fur gun cases. If you hav another are to spare my wife wood like to get'em to hang up by the side ov the fireplace to keep the tongs in." Titian's "Madonna with the Veil," which was generally believed to have been destroyed at the storming and sacking of Rome by the Constable of Bourbon, has been found again among the pictures in an old chateau belonging to the late Dr. Riteri. The professors of the Academy of Turin pronounce it to be the genuine picture. A Michigan tavern-keeper has this evasive arrangement: You put your ten cents on a spot marked "whiskey;" the apparatus revolves, and directly you see a glass of whiskey standing before you, and you don't know, of course, who gave it to you, or how it came there. A person who wrote to Treasurer Spinner asking for his autograph and a sentiment," received the following reply: "You ask for my autograph with a sentiment. My sentiment is this: When a gentleman writes another on his own business, he should enclose a postage-stamp." Sweet butter can be purchased in Carroll County, Virginia, for twelve to fifteen cents; while the storekeepers and farmers of that delightful region don't think of asking more than ten cents for a dozen eggs. Two absurd young men want to be admitmitted to Vassar College because it is leapyear. To mothers: You shouldn't let the children read Watts's poems, they contain much hymnmorality. The English immigrant to this country is harder to root than any other transplanted foreigner. He has less than the ordinary facility for making new acquaintances; and, finding few of his countrymen here, has a very homesick and heart-sick time of it. Swindlers tried to seduce a Western man on a railroad train into betting that he could open a patent padlock which they carried about. He took the bet, and opened the lock with a sledge hammer. The Napier family, a member of which has been appointed Governor-General of India, are a lucky race. Their great merit seems to be, to be always at hand when offices, or military or naval commands, become vacant. It is seldom that a man shoots himself in splitting wood; but a Kentuckian accomplished the feat successfully recently, by hitting a pistol in his pocket with the axe-handle. A German writer, complaining of the difficulties in the pronunciation of the English language, cites the word Boz, which he says is pronounced Dickens. The Mormon sisters of Ephraim, Utah, lay aside all the eggs their hens lay on Sunday and devote the proceeds to paying the fare of Mormons desirous of emigrating from other nations. This is literally egging them on. Before Paris became mistress of modes, Milan prescribed the mo, i for bonnets; hence the name milliner for l ic fabricator of the crowning glory of well-dressed womanhood. " Excuse haste and a bad pen," as the pig said when he broke out. . frnroa~ ~ohiai. Leopold II., King of the Belgians. HE kingdom of Belgium, the youngest member of the European family of states, has thus far had an exceedingly happy and prosperous existence, thanks to the wise and just government of its first king Leopold, who was much beloved and is gratefully remembered by his people. When Leopold I. died, in 1865, and was succeeded by his son Leopold II., the latter had only to follow in the footsteps of his father in order to insure the prosperity of his subjects. This he has done. At the age of thirty, he was welcomed to the throne by the people; for, although his father had given him no part in the direction of the affairs of the state, he had, nevertheless, won the confidence of his future subjects. Leopold II. is the son of the aforetime Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-King of the Belgians, July 21, 1831-and the Princess Louise of Orleans, eldest daughter of Louis Philippe, and was born April 9, 1835, in Brussels. The direction of his education was first intrusted to Major Hallard, and subsequently to General De Launoy and Baron Prisse. In 1840 he received from his father the title of Duke of Brabant, which in future will be the title of all the crown-princes of Belgium. His course of study was the same as that usually pursued by all royal princes. At eleven years of age, he entered the army, with the rank of second lieutenant, and, one by one, ascended the steps of the military ladder, the highest of which is the rank of lieutenant-general, which he reached a short time previous to his succeeding to the throne. At eighteen, he was declared of full age, and accompanied his father on a visit to Vienna, the object of which was to marry the young duke to an Austrian princess. The choice of the father fell on the Archduchess Marie Henriette, born August 23, 1836, daughter of the late Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary. The marriage was celebrated at Brussels, August 22, 1853, the duke being then 1872.] VARIETIES.- CONTEMPORAR Y POR TRAITS. 587 0

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