Royal Doings of 1892

Khedive was the title of the viceroy of Egypt under Turkish rule 1867–1914. — Public domain image of Ismāíl Pasha, Khedive in 1892

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For forty days after a Khedive's death food is served, with coffee and cigarettes. to all who visit the tomb.

The Prince of Monaco, of Monte Carlo fame, has been chosen to succeed the late Dom Pedro as a foreign associate of the French Academy of Science.

In accordance with Chinese etiquette all business of state requiring the Emperor's attention is transacted between the hours of 2 in the morning and 6.

An English governess is hereafter to educate the daughters of the King of Siam, and she will be rewarded therefor with a salary of £700 a year and a residence in the royal palace.

King Carlos has renounced 20 per cent. of his civil list, which amounts to 435,000 milreis per annum, in order to assist in the restoration of the embarrassed finances of the nation.

Max Alvary, the tenor who was so successful in "Siegfried" in New York that all the young women fell in love with his arms, has sung in "Tannhauser" twenty times at Hamburg this season, and is to sing the same role at Konigsberg. The Elizabeth will be Therese Malten, the famous dramatic soprano. — Enterprise, Volume III, 1892

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