The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-06-04
EMINENT BABIES.

There are at present three distinguished
infants in Europe-the Anglo Prussian baby
offspring of Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa,
Princess Royal of England, and Frederick
William, grandson of the King of Prussia !;
the Spanish baby, offspring of Her Most
Catholic, but somew hat immoral, Ma lesty of
Spain, and, presnmptively, Of her husband,
whilom Duke of Ca,liz and the French ba-
By, presented some three years ago by the
pretty and fdgety Empress Eugene to her
spouse Napoleon iii. Rumor hinted some
time ago that her amiuble Ma jesty the Queen
Of Great Britain was about to make another
small contribution to the regal census, but
of late, we suspect there was no solid foun
dation for the report. Even if true, the ad
vent of another little royal responsibility in
a country where it has been raining royal
highnesses of both sexes ever since 1910,
could scarcely be deemed noteworthy
event.
The Anglo Prussian baby, which is yet in
long clothes, is very fine specimen of a
sucking prince. There can be no doubt
upon that sub ect, because when his royal
highness showed the boy to his household,
they were unanimous on that point and they
could not all be mistaken. Even the King
Of Prussia, though laboring under an aber-
alton of mind, superinduced by over doses
of an etTervesccnt medicine known as cliquot
reused himself sufficiently to pronounce his
grandson a lusty fellow
The Spanish infant is also described by
the journals Of Madrid as a nonpareil Of a
prince. Queen Isabel is fond of taking him
out in an open carriage and showing him the
soldiers and the people, who of course shout
hooray' in Spanish, as in duty bound.
Among the illustrious babies of Europe,
lc petit Napoleon is, SO to speak 'cock of the
walk lie is over three years old, and ve-
ry fond Of wooden soldiers and make belev e
artillery. No pains has been spared to i'm
press his infant mind with the idea that he
is the grand. nephew of his grand uncle,
Napoleon 10 Grand. There are some pco-
pie wicked enough to suspect that he is the
grandson of the great Bonapart; but this is
scandal. His grandmother, Queen llortense
plain that ambition already begins to swell
in the little breast of the child Of France.
He sometimes rides his rocking horse fur.
iously, with his right hand extended toy ward:
Italy, telling his attendants, in baby French
ally charges, flag in hand. through the cor.
Eluor INTO Which tue lmperlai nursery opens
an exploit supposed to refer to the passage
of the bridge Of Lodi. Strange to say ht
never mentions Waterloo-perbaps he has
never been told of that bit Of q skirmish.-
If his father should die natural death, il
he himself should escape from the measles
Group, etc., and If France should abstain
from revolution until he is out of his minor.
ity, together with other ifs too numerous tt
mention, the boy may possibly wear crown
but it is quite as likely that about the tim,
he should put it on he may have no head t.
put in it.
1t is the opinion of some hopeful people
that by the time the above named cradl
princes are big enough to sit on thrones
there will be no thrones for them to sit on
We are not SO sanguin-New York Sunda!
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