Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — VILLA FABBRICOTTI. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VILLA FABBRICOTTI.

Where Queen Victoria Will Spend Her Spring; Vacation. The Villa Fabbricotti, which will be occupied by Queen Victoria on her continental tour during the early spring, is a large and well-arranged palace

situated in a most' romantic regi >n, a short distance from Florence, Italy. The villa was built many years ago by a nobleman in the days 'of Florence’s greatness, but was sold some years afterward to a wealthy family. Fabbricotti, to repair the broken fortunes of the nobleman. The grounds were extended and beautified, and valuable pictures anl works of art were procured to adorn the interior of the building. IN the days when lectures were so popular in the United States, a quarter of a century ago. the highest priced man on the platform was Professor Agassiz, who was paid SSOO a night. Sumner, Gough, Beecher, Emerson, and Curtis commanded S2OO. Of late years the big card was Stanley, who •received SI,OOO a night. At the present time the pre-eminent Success on the rostrum is Stoddard, with his stereopticon. . I Seven HUNDRED recruits forCoxey’s army seized and tied up several Southern Pacific trains at Findlay, Tex. Rev. Jambs G. Ryan, a pioneer Catholic priest of Nebraska, died very suddenly at his residence in Omaha.

VILLA FABBRICOTTL