The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-05

and in addition birds of all ages, sexes and
previous conditions of cleanliness. Eighteen
dogs If you please, at pres MT Pugs and
agles. Carlo, the retriever, and Nina,
the Italian greyhound.
Thirteen cats-unluckv nuinber,--hlack
cats, gray cats, white cats, Maltese cats,
Norwegians and Indians, and lean Spanish
cats
Between thirty and forty birds from tropi-
cal countries. screaming parrots TO petty
piping canaries.
And these have their dwelling and abid-
ing place in the boudoir and bed rooms of
the Princess of Wales
To be sure, off the boudoir is an aviarv,
where the birds scream in their rows of
cages. The favored ones, however, fly here
and there through theroOms The dogs and
cats roam about at will. In the corners or
the boudoir are small, black painted boxes
private dressing rooms for the royal ami
mails
1t is all very nasty and l don't mind say
ing as much, for the Prince has used the
same word-with an ad ject We or so in front,
best indicated by dash
The peculiar odor" fills the apartments
as snugly as the genius of Solomon did the
Arabian casket.
once smelled my way through the me-
nagerie that Ouida keeps in her houfe at
Florence; but, then, Weeder draws the line
al ner bedroom door.
SILVER BOWLS FOR CANNES.
Two wears ago the Princess gave her-it
was at Christmas time-a handsome silver
bowl, gold-llned and picked out with pearls
Last Christmas she had the shape slightly
altered and laudatory address engraved on
the side,
And-presented it to Carlo" the re-
triever, who is growing toothless and has to
humble grated food.
The Princess, of course, did not recognize
the bowl; in the afternoon she handed the
old woman a check for 9l00.
There is no doubt that the way to the
Princess heart is through Carlos stomach.
This fat dogkeeper-she is a stout, pom
pous old woman--is said to be the only per
son who is 'chummy" with the Princess.
They talk together, walk together, scratch
the dogs, wash the cats, feed the birds to-
gether. These animal pets of the future
Empress cost on an average 4ll,OO0 year.
This, of course, does not include the fat
keepers wages and perquisites.
The bedroom leads on to the dressing
room. The window is hung with heavy
curtains and there are soft rugs on the floor.
The walls are grayish white, picked out
with blue. The bath is a very stately affair
of white marble, with glitterlng silver
"daSher" and silver Stop-cocks.
Passing back through the suite of rooms,
my guide turns down the corridor and un
locks the door leading to the Princes apart
ments.
His bedroom faces north. 1t is a COM
Portable, warm-looking room; a many-plied
green carpet is on the floor; the furniture is
heavy and solid looking. On the walls hang
pictures of the Queen, of the Dear De
parted" of the Princess and a series of
Windsor views.
WALES GROWING FAT.
To tell the truth, the Princes obesity has
gotten past the joking point within the last
few months. His girth outdoes that of his
stout ancestor-''thef first gentleman of Eu-
rope'-Beau Brummel's fiat friend" He
shoots, as is well known. In fact, there is a
party at Sandringham now. 1t is done after
this fashion, A big oaken chair is carried
out into the preserve. Tum-tum sits down.
A keeper stands at each side, one to load the
guns and the other to hand them to Turn
tum. The game-pheasants, woodcocks,
hares, ridges-fattened in the preserves
are tiuttered slowly past the chair and the
Prince picks off as many as he can. 1t is
much like shooting at well-fed farm fowl
Here and there in different places the Princes
friends are stationed. They blaze away
Tum-tum blaZeS away, everybody blazes
away. The killed are gathered up and laid
out on the lawn in row.
After luncheon they are inspected and
loaded into van and driven to the station.
The next day "a court paper" announces
that they have been sent to a hospital. Sc
they have-at all events brace or so OF
pheasants and a few hares. The rest are
sold at the poulterers. IT'S a thrifty family
and even Tum-tum, the royal Falstaff,
watches keenly the shifty shilling
There is only one thing IN the dining-room
worth noticing-the automatic organ that
plays at dinner. 1t is huge, brazen affair
"a sort of calliope degenerated to a crank.
the music is jotted down and another sol
EMMY turns the crank handle. 1t saves
hiring band and makes more noise. The
Queen has her bagpipes, but then she can
afford to pay the piper. The Prince has in
herited none of his fathers musical ability.
He is not much of anything except heir ap-
parent.
Across the park-a stroll of over half a
mile--is the Bachelors lodge. when raped
at the Coor an old woman let me in.
Dogs
Blind and halt and dyspeytic, obese and
consumptive-wrecks Of all sorts of dogs.
Yes sir" said the old woman, 1.-The Prin-
cess sends all the old dogs here. They snarls
and banks and fills themselves up and dies.
The Prince he hates them. One day he
came in and says to Chandler, his valet,
Have all them d-n things shotn and goes
away. | hoped that was the end of them,
but the Princess says that they was to be
kept, and nobody dares to kill them-the
beasts.'
docs the Princess come herep
'Often, sir, and holds them and scratches
their heads and says, Feed them we'll and
goes away" c. V. t.