Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-07-29
STORY OF AN AMERICAN HeIaEss.
Fotune-Hunters Of France Fixing Eyes
on Miss Aver and Her Five Millions
Rich Wives and Poor Husbands
-SsquaI Ofthe Runaway
Marriage Of a Nun.


Correspondence ofthe SaH PrdHcfsco Chronicle.
PARIS, June Is, lSS.-Hsve you
heard of the scandal at Madrid, about
the King of Spain slapping his Queen
in the face because she caught his "roy-
al nibs" making love to a woman
whom he has already twice made q
mother? The princely courts of the
Continent have been previously shock
ed by the affair, not so much because
of the violence of Alfonso MI, but be-
cause Of its being made public through
the medium of a Liberal newspaper.
Marriages de raison are not such agree.
able things as one might suppose, and
there is no more "A royal road to hearts
than there is to learning. That naugh-
ty little god whom the Greeks called
Eros is not often consulted in those
weddings whose motives are rather to
draw more closely the bonds between
rival nations, to keep Pan. Slavism.
Pan. Germanism and Pan Latinism
from flying at each others Threats rath-
er than to satisfy the affections of the
parties to them. He, however, gener-
ally gets even by playing some Of his
merry prapks with the hearts Of them
who have thus ignored him and his lit
tie bow and CULVER. For long time
part Austria has been the nation whose
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seem to be furnish the rest OF
The Thrones OF the Continent
with queens. Marie Antoninette was
sent out to Louis XVI aud not long af-
towards Marie Louise was furnished To
Napoleon |. The latest royal order thus
filled by the house of Hapsburg was the
shipping of Marie Christine from
Vienna to Madrid, where the young
widuwer, Don Alfonso Nll,was in need
OF an heir To the thrones Of CASTLE and
Arragon, an article which Marie Chris
tine soon gave him in the shape OF Il
fine girl baby. It would, however,
seem that the Spanish blood Of the
Bourbon Alfonso is not satisfied with
the languid tenderness OF the German
girl, and, what is still worse in King
his most Catholic majesty not only has
4 mistress, but when his consOrt
catches him" he loses his temper and
and has been known to raise his royal
right hand and strike this lovely de.
scendant OF the ancient and imperial
The way it all happened
was this:
The King CauRht.
In the outskirts Of the Spanish capt.
tai stands lovely house, situated In a
lovely garden, TO which the King is in
the habit Of going when the Ministers
and courtiers bore him Overmuch at the
palace. In this lovely house and gar
den he used to meet the lovely Blanca
EspOnceda-s she was Mile. Blanche
Donades when knew her as pupil
studying singing under Nine. De la
Grange-and the Kings favorite had
already increased the worlds popula.
ton before her Majesty heard word
about it. Perhaps she would not have
heard anything if it had not been for
the Duke De Sevto, the very man who
presented Blanca to Alfonso and who
Intentionally gave the King away"
because the latter lad refused friend
of his a decoration. The Queen Marie
Christine no sooner heard what was 60
ing on than she drove to the E5pOnceda
villa, where she found her hubby"
aud the "bold, bad woman" in RIgrdnte
dciiCtO. The King did not see fit to
follow the example of his illustrious
ancestor, Louis XIV, who, when his
wife caught him in q similar fix, threw
his walking stick out of the window for
fear he might forget and use it on the
fair intruder. Quite the contrary was
Alfonso's Conduct, for he sprang at the
Queen and gave her such slap in the
face as almost knocked her out Of time.
When she recovered her wits she called
The King n Brute
and declared she was going home to
her pa and ma. That very afternoon
there was bull fight in Madrid in
honor of the King Of Portugal, then on
q visit to his royal brother. To the
great annoyance of the public the King
and Queen arrived very late and went
away early and then is was rumored
Somehow or other the true story leaked
out and and was told, nnder the guise
of an Arabian tale, in newspaper
called the Liberal. The editor received
a summons to appear before the Courts
and also a visit Of two grandee-:h
Duke of Tanianus and the Count De
Benalua. These gentlemen made bad
matter worse, for they INDUCED In
threats and informed the editor, NJ.
Arano, that unless he said no more
about il they would cut of one of his
ears. Thereupon he kicked them out 81
his Office and the King was so annoyed
by the mess they had made OF the affair
that they were requested TO leave Mad.
rid for the rest Of the season. Two days
later the Queen herself left Spain and
last week passed through this city en-
Ioute for her old home in Vienna.
Royal LiasionS
Some people think that Marie Chris.
tine has done wrong, and blame what
they call a rash act, under the pretext
that princesses are sOvereigns before
they are women, and that claims OF
station are paramount to those Of the
heart, and they add that most queens
have had a similar matrimonial ex-
perience. am afraid that there is a
great deal of truth in this last remark,
Il
hind the throne. In all the palaces OF
Europe the royal and imperial n,enages
are far from being the happiest in the
world. 1.-THE Prince Of Wales has at
last settled down, and If the Nihilists
prevent Alexander of Russia from stay
ing out at nights, as much cannot be
said for the matrimonial happiness of
the rest OF the crowned heads Of En-
rope. The late Gar lived openly dur.
ing his wife's reign with woman
whom he made princess and all hon
est wife as soon as he became o widow
er. In Austria the Emperor and En-
press are
Practically Divorced,
the latter seeking consolation In horse
back riding and the friendship Of q
female person named Elisa, q profess
si0hal circus perfor mer, just now in
Paris. Recently when there was some
talk of celebrating the silver wedding
of this imperial couple, the Vienna Pub.
lie said: at is q mistake; 1t Is not
twenty-five years Of neRage (married
life), but twenty-five years Of D,dHege
riding ring that will be celebrated"
His Majesty William Of Holland has
caused bis Queen many heart pang;
A. ra,kal;a