But he loved his son better than his pride, and so Prince
Oscar married Lady Ebba, and Prince Carl will be King of Sweden and Norway
when his father dies.
Oscar of Sweden did a most kind and amiable thing for some of our
countrymen last year.
A party of Americans were travelling in Norway, and two of them, Mr. and
Mrs. Youmans, of New York, were drowned in one of the lakes. They were
driving, and the horses becoming frightened, backed over the bank into the
water.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Youmans were much respected and loved, their goodness
and charity were unbounded, and much sorrow was felt when the news of
their dreadful end was cabled to this country.
King Oscar not only expressed his sorrow for the accident, but ordered
that a marble monument should be placed on the spot where they had met
their death.
During the twenty-seven years that Oscar has been on the throne, his
country has been peaceful and prosperous.
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From Cuba, the news comes that another gunboat has been captured.
The story of the capture is that the boat, the _Cometa_, had been sent to
a certain post on the coast to prevent the landing of any filibustering
parties.
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