American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1876-09-23
One of King Ludwig's Fooleries.

One of King Ludwig's FOOleries.
At the Saalbau Palace King Ludwig
of Bavaria has his famous country re-
treat, where he spends his winter days.
The garden is a strange one. When
one enters it he scarcely believes the
evidence of his own eyes. One is tempt
ed to take the servant who guides him,
and in doing so violates the strictest
orders, for sorcerer. On the right
hand is large rock covered with moss,
on which trail cacti and orchids. In
the background is an East Indian land
scape, with tall, slender bamboos and
broad-leaved bananas and silvery cas-
cade. Near the rock one discovers, I'M
der ivy drapery, the entrance of cav
ern which leads to a waterfall. As one
proceeds further into the cavern, its
sides widen, and through the vaporous
blue shades which fill it precious stones,
diamonds and golden stalactites, glitter
like drops of dew in the sun. Let ms
leave the cascade, enter an avenue OF
palm trees, and reach a Moorish kiosk,
closed by a blue silk curtain, through
whose trefoil windows a delicate light
filters,an a cut-glass chandelier throws
rainbows innumerable. A narghile,
adorned with long, pearl embroidered
tubes, stands on lapis-lazuli table.
This is ssthe kiosk of delights.
). The King of Bavaria never crosses
the threshold except dressed as a Turk
of the old school, wearing o turban,
and with golden crescent in the mid
die of his back. He winds up the self
playing piano, which is concealed be-
hind curtain, lights his Turkish pipe,
stretches himself at length ON a sofa,
and passesaway whole afternoons amid
tobacco's amber clouds. and the melo-
dies of his mechanical orchestra. .7sg.
There are many mysterious and per-
fumed paths, bordered with seats COW
cred with satin and well stuffed, and
evergreen arbors, at whose further end
is Venus, or a crouehing sphynx,
leading from the Moorish kiosk to the
enchanted banks of little lake, which
seems to dream of its native land under
the motionless palm-trees. Mountains
obedient as those of Holy Writ, dociie
cliffs frame this lake, in which gold and
silver fishes. sport, beautiful Chinese
ducks swim, and which is lighted by
day, as well as night, by eternal moon
beams, There is machinery by which
the star-spangled sky may, at will, be
covered by black clouds, vivid light
nings flash, hoarse thunders peal, and
the lake becomes tossed by angry bill
lows. The King of Bavaria, costumed
as William Tell, then enters "a boat
moored to tree on the bank, casts off,
and rows among the daring pillows,
He has had photograph of himself
and lake taken during one of these
mimic storms. The photograph is real
ly an Interesting picture.
1t is said that the King one day asked
the prinaa donna Of the Munich opera
to come and sing the ballad of the King
of Thule in oat on this lake. When
she reached the second stanza, the King
rang the electric. bell, which was the
signal to his machinist to raise storm
on the lake. Instantly the ightnings
flashed, the thunders pealed, the waves
ran high, and the boat in which the
prlnaa donna stood rocked violently and
threatened to upset. She screamed IL
terror, and the King rolled over ,and
over on his sofa, laughing as if he
would split his sides. esss sa5 sRdt IS
i q AT one end of the lake is an Indian
wigwam; it contains butfalo-skins, moe
casins, bows, arrows, tom ahawks
spears and fishing implements. A grove
of exotic trees filed with parrots, taught
to pronounce the Kings name, sep
arates the lake from a chain of noun
tains made of cement, and made the
counterpart of the Himalayas. The
decoration of the foreground represents
q tropical lake, with islands filled will
GIGANTIC vegetation and extraordinar,
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