Reminiscences of a diplomatist's wife Author:Hugh Fraser Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ayres a terrific storm broke over the South Atlantic and engulfed the Sainte Marguerite with all on board. No sign of her or any of her crew has ever been seen s... more »ince; search after search was made by the Austrian and Chilean Governments, their cruisers exploring every yard of coast and all the bleak islands that lie off it; the missionaries instituted a search of their own, and had any trace been left of the unfortunate Archduke and his companions, they would have found it, their knowledge both of the coast and inland districts being exceptionally complete. Twenty years after the disaster the Archduke John Salvator, otherwise known as Johann Orth, was officially proclaimed deceased, and his property divided among his legal heirs. One more in the long list of tragedies that have fallen upon the unhappy House of Austria! Speaking of Archduke John Salvator's family resemblance to his ancestor, Ferdinand of Naples and the two Sicilies, reminds me of a seriously disputed point in his features — to-wit, his underlip. As a matter of fact, the Bourbon lip is said to have first been introduced into the House of Hapsburg as far back as 1440 through the Emperor Frederick IV who inherited it from his Polish mother, Cymburga, daughter of the Duke of Mazovia. The Emperor Frederick it was, moreover, who invented for himself and his successors the famous monogram A. E. I. O. U., which is found on everything belonging to him, his pottery, his books, and even on his monument in the Stefanskirche. Nobody seems to be quite sure what the letters once stood for, but here aresome of the accepted meanings of the riddle: — " Aquila Electa Juste Omnia Vincit" (The justly elected eagle conquers all); " Austriae Est Imperare Orbi Universo " or in German, " Alles Erdreich 1st Oesterreich Unter- than " — tha...« less