The Portland daily press., 1883-08-08
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Personal Traits of the Swedish
ROYAL Family.

Correspondence of the N. 7. Tribunel
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, tomorrow he is
inspecting a couple of military camps twen-
ty-five miles apart and more than hundred
miles distant from the capital. The day af-
ter you will hear of him from somewhere
out on the east coast, where he is inspecting
fortress or a man-of-war, or is on hunt
ing or fishing expedition. A couple of days
afterward he is miles away, opening an agri-
cultural fair or something in that line, rum
ming away after splendid and costly public
dinner there by special train to ChGistiana
or to the mountains of Dovre, in Norway,
for hunting reindeer. l don't believe there
is Ieigning monarch in Christendom that
personally is so well acquainted with every
thing and everybody-in his kingdo oms as the
present King of Sweden aud Norway, and in
this respect his subjects are indebted to his
incessant travels and marvellous memory.
To be King of Sweden, with its 4,650,000
inhabitants, and of Norway, with its 1900, 900
is, from the point of salary, very nice busi-
ness, as the civil lists from both countries
give an income Of about $3.50, 200. The royal
folk ought to be satisfied, but they aren't, as
the Norwegian Government recently made
repeated demands upon the "Stor-Thing' to
donate about $4,000 more yearly to the
Crown Prince The ''Stor-Thing'' or Nor
wegian Parliament, has just-as many times
rejected the proposition, whereby it seems
that the sturdy people on the west side of
the mountains think that they pay their roy
atty well enough. Add to The above that
the royal family, has besides the royal castle
at Stockholm, with its 600 rooms, the use Of
yet another spacious palace in the capital for
the oldest of the heirs-at-law to the throne,
not being the Crown Prince or his son, and
in the vicinity of Stockholm the country
places of Rosendal, Haga Ulriksdal, Drott-
ningholm, Rosersberg, Svartsj0 and Stroms-
holm; in the southern provinces those of
Herrevad's Abbey and Beckaskog, together
with Sophiero, the Kings private property,
and in Norway, besides the royal castle at
Christiana, another smaller palace in the
same town andthe country palaces OF Os-
karshall, and It must be admitted that a
family OF ten members is uncommonly well
housed, be the family yet a royal one. OF
the Swedish naturalzed branch of the Ber-
nadotte family at present the King, the
Queen and their three younger sons are liv-
ing at the summer palace, Rosendal, about
two miles from Stockholm; the Crown
Prince. with wife aud baby boy, are trying
the qualities of some medical springs in Ger
many, and the Princess Eugenie, the Kings
sister, with the Duchess-Do of Dale
Karlien, are sojourning in the island of Got
land, in the Baltic.
Corresponding with the remarkable run
niDg-about propensities of the King is his
habit of early rising when at home. At about
6 O'Clock in the morning he is on horseback,
and, accompanied by his adjutants, he takes
a trot around the deer park or to the drill
place of his life guards, returning to Rosen-
dal at about s. The Princes Charles and Eu-
gene, the thiId and fourth of his sons, are
then off to their garrison duties, and about
9, when the pretty but sickly Queen is aris-
en-, he in her company takes breakfast, after
which he very diligently scrutinizes the
newspapers, The Baily journal or Dag,
bladt being, 1t is said, his favorite
among The Swedish. He read his mail and
confers either with sthe secretaries of the
State departments or with the officers Of his
Court up to o'clock, when luncheon is
partaken Of BY the whole family. In the
afternoon everybody does as ne likes, the
King generally spending his time upon liter
ary pursuits, as he does couple of hours in
the morning before he takes his trip on
horseback. At o'clock dinner is served,
to which generally several higher civil and
military officers are invited 'by royal order"
At 10 they partake of light super, and for
about an hour the members of the royal
family proper are privately together discus
sing the events of the-day, family matters,
etc. At about 10 a. IN. the Queen, the
weather permitting, takes an airing in a car
riage with four horses and attended 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 feather about three
feet high in his cap. Whatever her simplici-
ty 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.