Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-08
THE HEIRS OF BERNADorrE.
Personal Traits of King Oscar and the
Swedish RnvaI EamiIr-


Stockholm cor. of the Neqo York Tribune.
A notable wanderer is King Oscar. You
can never be sure where to find him
during summer time in his two Kingdoms.
To-day he is perhaps in Stockholm. TO-
morrow he is inspecting a couple of mill
tary camps twenty-five miles apart and
more than hundred miles distant from
the capital. The day after you will hear
of him from somewhere out on the east
coast, where he is inspecting a fortress or
a man-of-war, or is on fishing or hunting
expedition. A couple of days afterward
he is miles away, opening an agricultural
fair or something in that line, running
away after splendid and costly dinner
there by special train to Christiania or to
the mountains of Doyre, in Norway, for
hunting reindeer.
To be King of Sweden, with its 4.65O.-
900 inhabitants, and of Norway. with its
100000, is, from the point of salary. a
very nice business, as the civil lists from
both countries give an income of abOnt
$3.50, 1000 Add to the above that the roval
family has, besides the royal castle at
Stockholm, with It's 600 rooms, the use of
yet another spacious palace in the capt.
tai for the oldest of the heirs-in-law to the
throne not being the Crown Prince or his
son, and In the vicinity of Stockholm,
various country palaces.
Of the Swedish naturaliZed branch of
the BernadOtte family at present the
King, the Queen and their three Younger
sons are living at the summer palace.
Rosendal, about two miles from Stock,
holm; the Crown Prince, with wife and
baby boy, are trying the qualities of some
medical springs in Germany, and the
Princess Eugene, the Kings sister. with
the Duchess-dowager of Dalekarlien. are
sojourning in the Island of Gotland, in
the Baltic.
Corresponding with the remarkable
running about prOpensities of the King,
is his habit of early rising when at home.
At about O'Clock in the morning he is
on horseback and, accompanied BY his
adJutants, he takes trot round the'deer
park or to the drill place of his life
guards, returning to ROsendal at about
8. The Princess Charles and Eugene.
the third and fourth Of his sons, are then
off to their garrison duties, and about 8
when the pretty but sickly Queen is
arisen, he in her company takes breakfast,
after which he very diligently scruti-
nlZes the newspapers. He reads his mail
and confers either with the Secretaries
of the State departments or with the Off
GERS OF his court up to | O'Clock, when
luncheon is partaken of by the whole
family. In the afternoon everybody does
as he likes, the King generally spending
his time upon literary pursuits, as he
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fore he takes his trip on horseback. Ate
O'Clock dinner is served, to which gen.
orally several higher civil and military
officers are invited ''by royal order.'' At
10 they partake of light supper, and for
about an hour the members of the royal
family proper are privately together dis
cussing the events of the day, family mat
tiers, etc. At about 10 a. m. the Queen,
the weather permitting, takes an airing in
a carriaOQ with fOur horses and attandnd
by one or two of her ladies of honor, in the
deer park, the servants generally dressed
in the half-dress of the court livery, the
life groom, however, with an ostrich feath-
er about three feet high In his cap.
Whatever her simplicity of manners, so
much spoken of, may be, the Queen will
not permit an iota of the royal honOrs due
her to be omitted when out of the castle.
EE-Feathers, ribbons, velvet can all
be colOred to match that new hat by using
the Diamehd Dyes. Druggists sell any