The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-11
Monaco, It's Prince, and It's Suicides.

| have been fortune enough to see the
reigning Prince Charles III. J of Monaco.
was lingering on the public place in front of
the Palace at Monaco the other day, when
suddenly | heard the distant rumbling of
wheels. The guards at the Palace gates
heard also, there was scurry among the
sentries, about a dozen of the twenty-six
len who form, it is said, the Monegasque
Army rushed out of side room, caught up
their guns and formed in a single file at the
entrance of the Palace. A modest little
brougham appeared, the soldiers presented
arms with a cry that sounded like the
English hurrah, the solitary trumpeter too
too-too'd with all the force of his lungs, and
the Princes carriage drove into the Palace
yard, not, however before / had caught a
glimpse of His Highness, who was rolled up
in furs in the corner of the brougham, and
whose white face stood out against the dark
crimson satin Innings and cushions. The
poor old gentleman is blind, and that is why
it appears the shouting and trumpeting are
carried on at the Palace gates, in order that
he may know he has reached his home. Di-
rectly he is indoors the flag is hoisted a yard
or two higher. The Royal Standard of Mo
naco is singularly characteristic. In the
center of it is a sort of red and white chess
board; at the side are two long strips of
black, which, on close examination, turn
ut to be the robes of a couple of priests.
The ground of the flag is white, and, there
fore, when seen at a distance floating over
the Palace, which is on the summit of an
exceedingly steep rock, the whole thing un-
doubtedly has the effect of rouge ct nOir on a
white foundation.
| To my mind Monte Carlo is not so bad as
people pretend. 1t is peoples own fault if
they go there, and do not find it much
more reprehensible than the gambling that
| goes on in French Clubs where men can
and do lose not only the loose money they
have in their pockets, but their lands their
property of all kinds, and even the money
that they have borrowed from their friends.
! A great many of the stories about suicides
| connected with Monte Carlo are fictitious.
A correspondent of the East-a paper which
is circulated, by the by, throughout the
Mediterranean district, and seems to be
specially popular at Monaco-relates a curl
Gus incident about the bogus suicides at
| Monte Carlo. In one case recently cab
horse fell down in fit if l remember
Alright, at the entrance of the Casino. The
poor animal was in torture, and the author
tiles decided that it was best to kill it al
once, which was done before it was removed
some of the animals blood bespattering the
steps of the Casino. A few astute persons
arriving after the horse had been removed
were in high state of indignation. The
steps of the Casino were sprinkled with the
blood of victim of roulette! Thereupon
the telegraph office was besieged, and sensa
tional paragraphs were wired to the variou:
Paris and Riviera journals, and many read
ers may remember an Incident of the kind
appearing in some London papers. In tn,
Paris papers elaborate accounts were giveI
of the young man who, having lost his every
sou. had blown his brains out at the Casino
door in broad daylight.