The Rothschilds

The wedding of Mr. Leopold de Rothschild and Mlle. Perugia, took place in London recently. Aniong the friends present, besides the prince of Wales and Lord and Lady lloseberg, were Lord ])orchester, Baron and haroneas Alphonse le Bothschild of Paris ; Mme. Perugia. the bride's mother, and niany other notable peeple, The synagogue was beautifully decorated with flowers. The prince of Wales was conducted to the front pew f'aeiug tho canopy under which the ceremony was perfonncd. The special inairiage service commenced shortly bef ore 2.30. The bride entered by the right aisle, and the brtdegróom, partiaüy enveloped in a white garment, entered by the left. The bi'ide was fojlowed by four bridesmaids, who were Miss JJeatrice de Uoshschild, Miss Julia Sassoon, Miss Forbes and Miss A. F orbes. Marriages in the liothsehild family have usually been surrounded by peculiar olrcumstancea, whinh render them unusually interesting. Intermarriage with very near relativas has always been a Ilebrew custom, but perliaps it has seldom been so strictly observel as by this family. Anselm, the founder 0Í the Frankfort house, married a niece, the eldeat ilaughter of Nathan, the founder of the London branch; James, the head of the Paris branch, married a daughter of his own brother Solomon. Nathan himself had married outside of the family. Altliuugh he had been only a few years establislied in England, so large were his transactions that one of the Jewish grandees of London, Levi Ciihcn, selected him as an eligible candidate for the hand of one of hia daughters. After the union, the apparently desperate apeoulatious of the young man greiitly alarmed the old bauker. He believed that Nathan would soon be ruined, and that his daughter would flnd herself in distress. Thefather's apprehensions were calmed, however, by the young Itothschild saying: "You have given me but oneof your (laughters; it would have been an excellent stroke of business to have given me them all. ïlien they would all have died a great deal richer than they will now." Xatlian was peihaps the greatest miser of the family. He so far hated to see a penny go out of the family, that he eonceived the idwiof porpetuatlng the power of the house by, means of consanguineous allianees, Vvith tliis view, in,1836, ho ealled a family congress together at Frankfort to consider the proposition. They all favored it, and as a pledge of this policy his son Lionel was inarried to Charlotte, the danglitai' of Charles, then the head of the Naples house. Natlian wa.s overjoyed at the adoption of his matrimonial system, but feil siek on the day of the wedding and died in six weeks, June 15, 1836. To select one of the mamases between the members of this fainilv, we may point to that of Ferdinand de Kothschild, the seoond son of liaron Anselm of Vienna and Evelina, the seoond daughter of Baron Lionel, sister to the present bridegroom. This marriage occurrod in 1865, at the mansión of the bride's father in Piccadilly, whieh, in splendor of interna! decoration, lias few equals in Europe. It would be superlluous to enter into any de.;eiiption of the house for the occasion. IVrhaps no bride, not even Stephania of Kelgium, will wear a briilal veil of suoh marvellous lace as Evelina wore on her wedding day. Slie was attended by fourteen bridemaids, at the head of wMch was Lady Diana Hcauclerc, the daugliter of theDucluss of St. Alliaiis. [t may be truly said that only the l'rince and Prlncess of Wales were absen.t fruin the brilliant gathcrjng. Tlie Duke of Cambridge opened the ball that followed the iiKiny; Benjamin Disrneli, who has alreacty beécn Ch&ftoellor of the Exchequer, prepoSèd the heátth of the li:ijijy l:iir, am Uu: A) ('hief Justloe of England bad olï and tlmed the cheers. Tl ie pnwent l)ri(legrooin, Leopold de liotlisciiild, i.s a lirother of Sir Xathaniel and Alt'ied, and, :i son of the late Lionel de Rothschild, the first Jew who sat in the Britisli J'arliamiMit. He ia, of course, a ineinbcr Of thp llrui i Bt, Switliin's lane. Uv hairiafle au excejtinn to the system establishcd ly Baron Nathan. The house of Kothsch'iUl will, liowever, lose no.tUjnff liy the change, Tor the brfde's fainiíy, the Perugius of Trieste, stand quite as high in the east as the Hutli.sehilds in the west of Encope, 11 - . A !Xev Haven brute satnrated cotton with alcohol, tied it to a dog's tai and thcn set fire to it. The dog startel on the run to go underthebrute'sbarn Then it didn't seera so funny to the brute. He madly howled at the dog and ran after hiin, but before he could overtake the animal, it got unler the bain, but aomehow the eotton went out and didn't set the bani on fire. This waa poetic justice. Barn was insured or twice ita