, 1876-04-30
EUROPEAN GOSSIP.


.--Louis Napoleons Mistress.
THE TRoURAoouR KING.
Lucy hooper Writes from Paris to Appleton:
Journal: Victor Tissot has just issued th
second series Of his "Voyage au Pays des Mill
1ards" under the title OF *'The pruasians IL
dozmany. From the new volume Nc will cite
to" passages relating to that most romantic 0
living mona5chs, King Louis OF Bavaria. A1
entire chapter is devoted to a description Of th
ai1 castles owned by the ROT troubadour, begin
ming With the two palaces at Munich. II hal
the freaks and foliies related therein are true
his Majesty must certainly have bee in his bon
net or most uncommon dimousions but, az th,
writer is Frenchman telling about Germany
his statements are. Of course, to be taken with ,
grain OF salt. One Of the six castles ia thu.
described:
1.-The castle Of Hoheuschvangsu ia pictur
esquey perched upon rocky peak. All arount
rise lofty mountains covered with gloomy forests
Of pine, and at the foot Of the rocR there is ro-
mantle lake peopled WITH swans. The King har-
nesses these swans to q gi1ded bark shaped like
she'll. and Is drawn over the surface Of thu
water, While band Of singers, grouped upon the
bank, execute fragments Of tLohengrln,' ant
the moon eliminates With its pale beams the
fantastic march Of stuffed stays, which are
|
AT the time OF the last eruption Of Veguyiua
the Hing became epvioua, and wanted to have
one too. He summoned to Hohenschwaugeu
the two Professors Of Geology Of the University,
and ordered them to get him up volcano,
lowed out. and the hole was filled with powder,
sulphur, coal, and petroleum. The sight was
rnagni6cent. The fire engines were brought
thlther from mules around. It WAS Thought that
the Royal castle had been mined by the Ptug-
slams and had been blown up.
The King also wanted tempests on tho Lake
OF AohenBchWangau. An enormous machine
has been constructed, provided With prodgous
wheels, which raise great waves With terrible
noise.
"Whether he inhabis his castle OF Berg, OF
Llndenhoff, or Of Munich, there are two things
that are indispensable to comfort, t,-his piano and
his moonlight Without piano the day would
light II is impossible for him to sleep. When
Providence refuses to light Tor him the celestial
lamp. he is forced to have recourse to fabri-
Gated moonlight. special apparatus for pro-
each Of the royal bed-chambers. At Munich the
ceiling is pierced with Thousand minute holes,
behind which are placed gas-jets. That repre-
sents very fairly starry Sly. While travelling
! the King makes use OF IN economical and porta-
ble moon, which can be hung up like an astral
lamp.
This strange character-this soul Of child
IN the body OF man, this King born to reign
over . nation OF poets and musclaus-is not
| suited to our century of soldiers and Of brute
force. Louis Ii. would have been charming
sovereign In the days Of tho minuesingers and
Of dreamy chatelaines to-day no oue under
stands him he seems to belong to legend and
not to history. He who is seated upon q throne
has no right to Use it as piano stool, for il
0rpheus himself were to return to earth he
would not take up Iyre, but 3 gun With alI the
modern improvements"
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The London correspondent Of tha Nav Yor,r
T,;h,n- aovs MA atorv ;,,rad;,,s so..,. 80
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.ao 1"so - ~, tu"s MI. Mt1as ~ 70 haFe S'o'ooo
Tor single picture, believe to be quite true.
The fact that it is for = picture not vet painted
does not MIKE IT less remark,h1a mr. 1rilt,is,
contr,ct "a nth NJ M.~a5as -. ,a.1A.
~ 49, r;-1's,1- 49," 49, p!e'u1o,oe@!e'
OF toe nigner ofoer who deslres 1t is said, to be
reckoned above Mr. Agnew himself, who has
long been known as the Leyiathan among
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than has been maid to anv ljy;ng artst ~
single work, or perhaps than any picture bY an
artist not dead has been sold for at auction, or
o.neiMlse. turner's strand Canal #as
" AZ mn Ia 'e sr suaspet, nsn .a1Ge mars
ask. Ia M1llais 3 greater naintar than 1,"rnars
that would be to touch on dangerous
ground; lie is, at any rate, the most fashion
ssns aeie 0l islng Engnsn a.s,sts, anu the cash
egarghoiv m.x doterT1ine m b;msatf .eh.t
-of tlis eyfraorin.r1 rr;ea r. ia la s.;5 P'
know not vhather trnlv that 3rr aiara7an md.
but eingle condition' VIZ. that the ,;c,nrs
should not be erbibited by Mr. Mlllais. Sub |
1ect aize. and ali the rest seen1. II this account
he correct. to hayo heen ieft rn IN tha ns'nt'
er's discretion, and about 90 ner cant 'N ~
tho purchgse money was maid down tn h;nd
the barcajn. Mr., Nsrsden. n cnnrse intan5a
to exhi6it the pIcture himseif. The nnmhar ~
people who viii 20 to sea it solely be; ansa ~
fhe amonnt paid for it ia not small. Then N.
is doubtlesa iocIuded. there viii hs
an engraving Which viii also be faahionahla md
scll LARGELY. and finally tho pictnre iIsalf vi,
rouaaiu to Be sold. AItogether II NAV tnrn mt
q good speculation. Holman Hunts ..shadon r
Of tho Gross" fetchad S50. 900 and 7 navar
heard that tho enterprigine hnyar and a1hihitor
If il repanted Of his barraln.
AN INGENIOUS THEFT
4 theft, minute in proportione Int arnrk1np1v
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