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ROYAL DRUNKARDS.
EUROPEAN MONARCHS WHQ HAVE
TAKEN TO THEIR CUPS.
Rumerg Concerning King Oscar of Swe
den Good Example of the Prince of
Wales —Emperor William and the Rul
ers of Austria.
(Special Correspondence. ]
London, Sept. 26.—As even the Nor
wegian papers do not hesitate to ascribe
to inebriety the extraordinary conduct
of their monarch in marching up to a
peasant at Troudhjem and roughly
pitching into the mud the hat which
the man through ignorance and boorish
ness had omitted to doff, as well as in
angrily flinging back the bouquets of
flowers that had been thrown into his
carriage by loyal citizens, there seems
to be some foundation for the persistent
reports current for some time past to
the effect that King Oscar had taken to
drink. And this impression is further
confirmed by the inconceivable extrava
gance of his utterances against his own
Swedish and Norwegian subjects in an
interview which he accorded to a num
ber of foreign newspaper correspondents
who had come to Norway for the pur
pose of witnessing the return home of
the explorer Nansen. Until a couple of
years ago Oscar was regarded as the
most sagacious, benevolent, and, above
all, the most accomplished monarch
thqt had ever reigned over Scandinavia.
But Qf late he has entirely changed, and
many of his actions have been charac
terized by so much • eccentricity as to
give rise to the belief that often he is
not altogether accountable for what he
does or says.
If it be really true that this irrespon
sibility is ascribable to an abuse of
stimula«ts, there will be much sorrow
w"’S it'
fr KING OSCAR.
among the members of his family, for
his'favorite son, that Prince Oscar who
surrendered his rights of succession to
the throne to wed the lowly born maid
en whom he loved, is the active presi
dent of the temperance society of Scan
dinavia, while the queen herself has in
sistent upon placing her name upon the
roster of the association. The latter has
a very uphill work in Norway and Swe
den, where heavy drinking is well nigh
universal and huge potations of arrack
punch -are indispensable features of ev
ery entertainment and convivial gath
ering.
As a general rule the anointed of the
Lord are an abstemious lot of men, one
of the most notable in this respect be
ing, contrary to a general belief, the
Prince of Wales, to whose influence is
attributable the fact that hard drinking
has gone out of fashion among gentle
men and is no longer considered good
form. But there are some very conspic
uous exceptions. Thus the late Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria to all intents
and purposes crazed himself by means
of heavy drinking prior to the tragedy
at Meyerling. His favorite tipple was a
mixture of cognac and champagne. And
I have known the Prince of Wales on
the last occasion when he visited Vien
na prior to the archduke’s death to re
monstrate with him upon the subject in
a most kindly and affectionate manner
and as his best friend. But it was of no
avail, and it is doubtful that if Rudolph
had any correct notion of what he was
doing on the memorable night when he
first of all shot the Baroness Marie Vet
zera and then killed himself.
His cousin, the Archduke Otto, who
has now been definitely designated by
Emperor Francis Joseph as heir appar
ent to the Austria-Hungarian throne, is
renowned for his-love of stimulants,
most of the disgraceful actions which
are laid to his charge have
caused his name to be execrated both nt
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home and abroad having beeti commit
ted under the influence of drink. In
deed it was in the midst of an orgy of
this kind that, while stationed at Press
burg, he attempted one night to con
duct a large party of equally inebriated
companions, male and female, up to his
wife’s apartmentsand into her bedroom
in_older that they “might see what an
archduchess looked like when she was
in bed.” It was only in the very nick
of time that a gallant young officer at
tached to the archducal household ar
rived upon the scene, posted himself
outside the door of archduchess’
room and, having drawn his sword,
threatened to run through the body any
one, except the archduke himself, who
dared to enter. Thanks to his presence
of mind, the party retreated in the com
pany of their imperial entertainer,
whose conduct in connection with the
affair was subsequently denounced not
only in the press, but in the national
legislature and severely punished by the
emperor.
The late King Louis of Bavaria shat
tered not only his nerves but also his
magnificent constitution and his reason
by the potations in which he indulged
during the last few years preceding his
death. He is known to have killed at
least a couple of his attendants in mo
ments of drunken frenzy before he was
finally deprived of the reins of govern
ment, that were intrusted to his uncle,
the present regent, and there is no
doubt that he was crazed with liquor at
the moment when he deliberately mur
dered the eminent physician who was
walking with him in the grounds of
the castle in which he was confined on
the shores of the Starenberg lake in the
Bavarian Tyrol, subsequently drowning
himself in a vain effort to escape from
his jailers by swimming clear across the
lake to the opposite shore. Drink, too,
is the origin of the incurable lunacy
with which his younger brother and suc
cessor, King Otto, has been afflicted
since quite five years prior to his acces
sion to the throne. Otto’s madness takes
the form of mathesis—that is to say,
like Nebuchadnezzar in olden times, he
imagines himself to be either an ani
mal or a bird, generally the latter, his
favorite role being that of a stork.
Many of the utterances of young Em
peror William have been so wildly ex
travagant and indiscreet that they have
been excused even by his greatest ad
mirers on the plea that they had been
delivered after partaking of a hearty
dinner or lunch. This would appear to
indicate that William has inherited the
weakness of his granduncle, King Fred
erick William IV, for strong wines, and
that he is not always accountable for
his speech or for his behavior after his
meals. King Frederick William’s drunk
en habits were the talk of all Europe,
and at the time of the Paris conference,
after the close of the Crimean war,
when Prussia clamored in vain for ad
mittance to the congress, the comic
newspapers of the old world—London
Punch in particular—caricatured King
Frederick William as a drooling drunk
ard, with an empty bottle in his hand
and his crown all awry, staggering
against the closed door of the room in
which the congress was held and en
deavoring in vain to get in. This king,
it may be remembered, died as a raving
maniac, the result in a great measure
of too much brandy and champagne. In
fact, he used to get drunk nearly every
night, and the scenes at the court din
ners were frequently beyond description.
King Victor Emmanuel, father of the
pAsent king of Italy, used to get very
violent when in his cups, and graphic
stories are told of the manner in which
at such times as these he and his mor
ganatic wife, the. gamekeeper’s daugh
ter, Rosina, whdm he created Countess
of Miraflore, would fling the crockery
at one another’s heads. The late King
William of Holland was a notorious
drunkard, while his son, the late Prince
of Orange, who was known on the
French boulevards by the nickname of
Citron, used night after night to be
picked up dead drpnk in the gutters of
the French metropolis by the Parisian
police.
On the other hand, the present rulers
of Austria, of Italy, of Russia, of Sax
ony, of Belgium and of Portugal are all
renowned for their abstemiousness and
may be said to teach by example the
advantages of temperance. No one,
however, has accomplished quite so
much in this direction as the Prince of
Wales, who may be said to have frown
ed out of existence the so called “three
bottle men” who constituted the pillars
of English society 30 and 40 years ago,
when it was considered a piece of bad
breeding aud of uugentlemanly conduct
to retire to bsd sobers *
0. M. Gilson.
Ad African Salt Works.
Karembwe’s is one of the salt mak
ing villages u a sandy clay is dug out of
the marshes and placed in grass fun
nels. Water poured on this dissolves the
salt. The solution trickles through the
green filter into a trough, after which
it is boiled and strained, and a fine,
large crystal salt is obtained. It is a
great trade in this part of the world.
All villages make salt, which is put up
in loads about five inches in diameter
by four feet long. All these people, the
Waitawa, are very polite. Most of them
hail you w’th, “Mornin;” they do hot
seem able to manage the “good.”—
“Glave In the Heartof Africa” in Cen
tury.
Mere Force of Habit.
Distinguished Foreigner—l think the
voices of English girls very sweet, but
they would be still more musical if con
versation were carried on in a lower tone.
London Belle—We make a good deal
of noise, but you must remember our
favorite amusement is concert going,
and one gets in the habit of loud talk
trying to make one’s voice’ heard
above the music, you know.—London
Tit-Bits.
I Go to Fahy’s for capes.
THE ROME TRIBUN •, SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, 1b96.
MODERN PRISONS.
Their Very Improvements Are What Drive
English Convicts Mad.
The official belief is that there is lit
tle or no prison made insanity. Prison
doctors are keenly alive to the possibil
ity of shamming, and they hesitate to
admit that there is any flaw in the sys
tem for the administration of which
they are so largely responsible. Still
the fact remains that the ratio of insan
ity in prisons has exactly doubled since
1877.
The admitted general increase of in
sanity is not sufficient to account for
this startling fact. Prison discipline is
now more mechanical, and therefore
more depressing. Its very improvements
in this respect “take the heart out of a
man.” It is probable that prisoners
were far happier is the old unreformed
prisons, when they herded together and
had companionship of a kind.
An expert witness who had passed
four and twenty years in jail told the
prison committee some startling things
from the convict’s point of view. The
rules, he said, are too minute for human
observance, arid some minds are totally
unable to bear the strain of them. A
man may be reported for knocking
something over in his cell, though it
may be by pure accident. The name
for this offense is “unnecessary noise.”
As the poor wretches walk their weary
round in the exercise yard one may fall
out of step aud thus throw the others
out. The first offender or the last—any
one, in fact, on whom the warder’s eye
happens to fall—is liable to punishment
for-this mischance.
In this way the convict gradually ac
quires an expression that never leaves
him —the round the corner glance cf a
being who dreads a tyrant on the pctmcc.
We want a new Howard if the system
is only half as bad'as it is said to be by
those who have best reason to know.—
London News.
Hot Bread Fad.
“Do you know,” asked.a policeman,
“what that crowd of young society peo
ple is doing at the bakery over there?’ ’
It was just before midnight in the
west end, and a group of young folk had
gone, chatting merrily, into the door of
a large bakery.
“They will wait there, ” continued
the bluecoat, “until the first batch of
bread is taken out of the oven, which
occurs about 12 o’clock. Hot bread
lunches seem to be getting all the rage
among the swell set, for every night
about this time I see group after group
go up to the door of the bakery and pro
cure the freshly baked bread, so hot
that it scorches the paper. They take it
to their houses, and there it is eaten
with plentiful spreading of butter and
preserves. To be-thoroughly enjoyed it
must not be cut, but pulled apart with
the fingers. ” —Washington Times.
Wellington on the Defeat at Ligny.
Next morning Wellington Was con
versing with General Bowles when a
staff officer drew up, his horse flecked
with foam, and whispered the news of
Ligny. Without a change of counte
nance, the commander said to his com
panion: “Old Blucher has had a
good licking, and gone back to Wavre,
18 miles. As he has gone back, we
must go too. I suppose in England they
will say we have been licked. I can’t
help it ; as they have gone back, we
must go too. ” —William M. Sloane in
Century.
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