Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-07-14
BLOOD AND DELICACY.

From the st. Louis Republican,
This world is brim full of fun, if man
will only look for it and catch it like
folly, as it flies. Take, for example, the
customs of certain blue. blooded regal
courts of announcing the prospective
coming of some rose and expectancy
of the fair state, fact which in private
life might well raise an honest blush on
the cheek of the daughter of a scavenger
But everything is in blood. Royalty has
its prerogatives, and the extraordinary
announcement recently made in a Lon
don paper about the Duchess of Edin-
burg, FIVE or six weeks after her mar
riage, was one of these most prominently
in point.
If such a statement had by the most
remotely possible blunder found its way
into respectable journal on this side of
the water, in connection with an Ameri-
can bride, the probability is that some.
body would have been shaken up by
big brother or some other member of her
family in very lively and not over COM
Portable manner. But then, we have not
that apex of style yet. Here is another
case which is better still, because the
court circular has not had occasion to
deny the coming rose and expectancy"
as was the case with the little Tartar.
The Countess d'Eu is the daughter of
Don Pedro, the Emperor OF Brazil, where
the greasy nuts and the festive monkeys
come from. The Countess d Eu is about
to present to her illustrious pa grand
sou, by which we may conclude that the
Countess is married. Now, when Don
Pedro's lovely daughter discovered this
interesting fact she was in Paris, and
Paris, it appears, is not good place for
little blue-booded Brazils to be born in.
The Emperor of Brazil must be born
among the monkeys and the nuts and
the diamonds of his native land, other
wise he is an alien de jure, and his
throne of cake is all dough. Now, al
though the Countess d'Eu knew this,
she was so charmed with dear, delightful
Paris that she refused to leave it.
Here was what might be termed reg
ular fix But the Emperor of the Brazils
was equal to the emergency. A mag
nifcent idea struck him all Of heap.
If Mohsmmed wouldn't come to the
mountain the mountain should 90 to
Mohammed. If the lovely Countess
dEu wouldn't return to Brazil to intro
duce the blue-blooded little rose and ex-
pectancy Of that fair State, then Brazil
should 20 to Paris in the shape Of few
acres of its soil If we may be per-
mitted the homely expression, this was
the way the Emperor had Of whipping
his fondly expected little grandson
around the stump Of Brazilian law.
A ship was got ready and cargo of
the choicest soil Of Brazil was shipped
under the care of dignitary of the EN-.
pire, with instructions to convert the
hotel Of the Countess d Eu in Paris into
a quarter section of Brazil. When the
embassy arrived in Paris they found the
countess ss we'll as all ladies wished to
be who love their lords both wisely and
well, but the countess had changed her
mind. Not as to the blue-blooded little
rose and expectancy" but as to the
place of his birth. She had come to the
conclusion that, if he was to be Emperor
of all the Brazils, it would be just as
we'll and better too that he should be