The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-06-10

their hands, u he pntsi Es He y also : goea
son, and sets the example Of treating the
Queens slightest wish - . command. II y
out or defsrence TO her win that \ neyef ~
tends horse races ON Sundays whilst travelling
abroad. He once begged by letter that this
rule should be relaxed 80 q to enable him y
accept Marshal MacMahon,s invitation 70 -
the a0rand Prix" run, but : negative An
swer was returned BY telegraph, and TIL
Prince did not 70 TO the race.
or the Princes literary tastes there y ncI
much to be said. like most modern princes,
he il, by mere force Of circumstances, . good
lineuist, speaking French and German Is
perfectly a. English. What is more, he can
make an after dinner speech in French, and
he can joke in the same tongue. He - fond
Of late hours, but no matter how late he may
20 to bed he rises early the next morning.
He is . keen sportsman and . very fair shot.
At whist he plays an excellent hand. An
whether the occupation of the moment be
whist, sport or dancing, he enters into 1t with
a hearty relish which contrasts strangely with
the blaze airs of the golden youths of the
day. His constitution is an excellent one.
He rarely has a days illness, and he is a Nv
ing proof that no amount of tobacco can en-
feeble either mind or body. believe that he
was the inventor of the now popular drink,
"lemon and soda"
His education, by the way, Was about as
serious as can be the education OF q man who
is born to everything worth having on this
T earth, who becomes a Colonel at IL and a
General at 81. The Queen made a brave eff
fort to bring up her sons in Spartan simple
, ity. Their table was of the plainest kind;
r they were made to do a fair amount~of work,
{ and they were required to take outdoor exer-
else every day, III wet as in sunny weather.
, But once at Oxford, the Prince was virtually
| his own master, and he certainly dstln-
v guished himself more by a universal urbai
: ity than by too exclusive an attention to tn
u classic authors. There is a rather ludicroI
b tradition at Oxford of how the Prince, whe
an undergraduate, went emp town \ on
Q bright afternoon, incOgnitus, as he fond.
o deemed, as we'll as incognito. What was his
disgust on arriving at the Great Western
terminus to find an eque,Ty in attendance
/ and a royal carriage awaiting his orders.
er Whether the Prince, despalring, requested to
be driven to exeter Hall to pass a quiet after
noon, the legend relateth not.
It has often been said that there IS no royai
road to learning. Let any one who believes
this talk half an hour with the Prince Of
Wales, when he may perhaps ask himself
~ whether this goodly proverb is SO very true
az after all. There is a royal road to knowl-
he edge, though few have the privilege OF tread
ing it. What most of us must learn from the
re- study of books a Prince of Wales can gain
ne from the living conversation of the greatest
y : men of the day, from travels under the guild
ance of the most delightful of cicerones,f from
IN the best places at all the most famous sight
gu and shows, from early cenyersance with rea
I'm sons of state and questions Of policy, from
REL assisting at (and taking part in) the making
of history. The Prince is admirably inform
ap- ed en- an extraordinary number Of questions
OF late, too, he has shown a taste and capac
ity fer work, from which one augurs that b
nd will scarcely be the roi ~faineant which Gel
IN tain persons have ~prophesied and hoped b
W would be.
the r.,r. ;.,, DAMMIT that IN npestions of fol
uCtC 10 ~ uOuuV SAsoS
ne eign affairs he will insist on having a veics
inc his interest in them is, of course, OF a twt
uiu fold nature. He is a thorough Englishmal
me- and very enthusiastic about the necessity fe
&C the maintenance of our prestige: he is ais
MY a German prince. His German sympathie
however, did not carry him so far as to el
anu; able him to approve of the spoilation of Del
marl. and he even EXPRESSED himself wit
unwonted bitterness on the subject. But b
feeling was rather personal than political.
am member of his household who spoke inca1
~tiouslay about the matter to the Princess, +
ceived what is vulgarly called ga wiggine
'ha' for his pains.
corn Few men have been more INSCRIPTIONS
his libelled than he. On one occasion he W
had much panied by a cartoon in a comic pap
her which likened him to George w. ~ hoI
ugh I'm not quite so bad as that rather naive
observed his royal highness, throwing ov
his illustrous great-uncle without any Gel
D. mony at all. When one subject of scand
began to pail on the public taste another W
tried, and we were told that the Prince W
head-over-ears in debt. As a matter OF IA
~ " the Prince has always known what he "
.ince ,o.. -, o,..o,s c;r;rc ow.v
dle,' ~NS"... =. ..,sGo l. :, of ard . NJ,
~ ell landlord. Apropos, here is a story
which the Prince comes out we'll, and ano
'".' err person who may be called b, very bad
The Prince won a bet from B, who thereup
w begged for time to pay his royal highne
~ Of course the Prince consented and to
Soh u ;ust;oo ba Maid Rut some months afte