Penrith Herald Jan 3 1874 Jan 3 1874 Continental On Dits

Jan 3 1874 Continental On Dits

AMONGST the Christmas sports MESSRS. COOK, the tourists, announce a wild boar hunt in the Eifel Mountains. A PARISIAN theatrical journal issues with each number the photograph of an actor or actress, said to be of excellent quality and ordinarily worth a shilling or eighteenpence.  The price of the newspaper and photograph is twenty centimes. MR. FRANCISQUE SARCET notices in connection with the death of REGINAH BERNHARDT,  a talented young actress of the Odeon, the decline of religious prejudice in Paris.  No one seemed to know whether the deceased was Jew or Gentile, but she received Christian burial because she had received Christian baptism "either unknown to her parents or through negligence." SIR RICHARD WALLACE has just sent 15,000 francs to the Assistance Publique in Paris, to be distributed amongst the various offices of charity. THE DUKE D'AOSTA has arrived at San Remo for the winter season.  Three houses have been taken for him and his suite. THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH OF AUSTRIA is expected on a visit to Munich about the end of January, when the confinement of her daughter, the PRINCESS GISELA, is anticipated. THE DUCHESS D'ISTRIA, sister of COUNT LAGRANGE, who died a few days ago, was an adept in the art of entering a room effectively and taking a seat with grace and dignity.  In addition to this power, she had been a celebrated beauty under LOUIS PHILIPPE, attracting universal attention wherever she went.  Her favourite attire for the evening was white satin.  With this she wore on her classic head bands of red velvet, studded with diamonds.  When decked out this way, she could look about confidently for the murmur of admiration that generally greeted her. A STATELY RESIDENCE, rich in every princely luxury as well as in architectural beauty, constructed in the style of Versailles, is shortly to rise on the banks of the romantic Chien Lake, in Bavaria.  KING LEWIS has determined to realize what has been a secret wish of his for many years. Several of the leading masters of architecture have been entrusted with the preparation of the designs, from which the King will select the most pleasing. THE CITY OF BERLIN has definitely obtained the money required for purchasing the English waterworks in the Prussian capital as a loan from the German Empire.  The sum for which this loan is contracted amounts to 10,000 thalers.  It will be paid over at the new year direct to the English shareholders, being appropriated from the German Government's deposits at the Bank of England. HENCEFORTH THE PREFECTS are to be attentive to their official costume, which will resemble that worn under the ex-dynasty, less the buttons;  thus in dress, as in laws, we are drifting into Imperialism.  The satraps are to carry the sword;  during the late invasion the only Prefect who used that weapon was DE LAFORGE, at St. Quentin, who had been only a simple journalit.

 

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