The morning news., 1889-03-29
PATHS CASTLE IN WALES.
Precautions Against Burglars and
Hospiteble Parrot.
From the Pau Man Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette.
The castle is about mile and half dis
tant from the little station of Penwllt,
being reached by road which Mme. Patti
has made. The first thing that strikes you
is notice to burglars, to the effect that
numerous traps for their capture are strewn
about the castle grounds Patti loves dogs,
who constitute themselves her protectors of
al night, when numerous savage ANIMALS
browse about seeki z whom they may
devour. But there is one in particular
Prince, l think, they call him-who
lives in palatial kennel just on the
top of the steep terrace which is cut down
to the river bank. Here he leads a
monastic existence-growling and grum-
bling and showing his teeth to all comers.
| By some magical electrical contrivance it
| is arranged that Prince shall escape when
the castle is alarmed, and l pity the enter
| prising burglar who is interviewed by
| Prince. "a word to wise house robbers }
Some months ago guest opened his win
| dow in the middle of the night, and was
| ,rrifed to find hat he had alarmed the
| whole house; SO when you pay visit to
| Craig-yNos you are warned not to open
your window, for ii you do you set the
electric currents in motion, and play the
deuce with the nerves of the sleepers 1t
all sounds like a chapter in "Monte Cristo." :"
1booS pIcCdubIOuS AuNO Ooot bohch SlhSc All
| attempt to break into the castle was made
| some little time ago-I am happy to say,
| without avail. Mr.. Nicolini has quite an
| armory in his dressing room, consisting of
a score of rifles and fowling pieces, so
| Craig-y-Nos would stand siege very WELL
cannot imagine a moro grateful sight
than the brightly lighted hall into which
| of trophies which the famous prlma-dhnna
has won in every part of the world, paint
| ings and busts on the walls, and & rden
| of lovely French flowers, fashioned into
wreaths and harps, and placed in beauti-
fully wrought golden receptacles, the
names of which l know not Here your
eve is arrested by portraits Of Patti and
Nicolini, there by illuminated addresses,
| here, again, by piscatorial trophies which
seem to be swimming about in what is but
cunningly simulated waite. At one end Of
| the hall is the boudoir, in the center is the
d awing-room, and at the other extreme is
| the charming conservatory snd living
| room, in which you could spend lifetime
with great comfort and joy. Imagine a
| palms and ferns, and hanging pl nts of
every description, with fountains FLASHING
and birds singing. 1t il a veritable Eden.
At one end are madame's three gray par
| rots. If you tap on the screen which stands
behind one of tn m, aud wait for ten sec
oHds, he invites you to Come in" Come
in" as naturally as possible. His comrades
have accomplishments, too. Then on the
| wall is a squirrel, who has just come out
and is revolving at hundred turns min
ute on one of those wire wheels which are
supposed to compensate him for the JOYS of
the forest. Open the glass doors at the end
| of the conservatory and you find yourself
in a long passage which leads you into
the beautifully fragrant and reposeful
winter garden, which is now too
nall for the growing timber. And
the whole atm sphere. b tier cold
as it is without, is like the tropics, and the
view from TIE windows Is as lovely as it is
| possible so conceive. Madame'S boudoir is
charming little apart nelt, in which
many of her most sscre1 easures are
kept. On the walls you see the big photo
graphs of the old German emperor. Mr.
Sa It's portrait OF Patti, which was hung in
the academy a year or two ago, photo
crap Of Gounod, presented afte "Romeo
ard Juliet" in Paris. A richly carved ca %
is full Of valuables, such as silver and golden
wrsa b , and ph 1tograp If emperors d
kin IS, queens and princesses, for Nine.
Patti has had them all at her feet
In the drawing room it is the same story.
You sDend your evening after dinner in the
splendid billiard rooms, which contain
hat must surely be the finest pncketless
billiard tables ever manufactu ed But
II OF billiard tables alone, but music in bar
rels. A whole side of one of the rooms is
occupied by magnificent orchestrion.
Madame consults gilded volume, selects
her opera, the Genius of the Lamp is called
descends to the lower REGIONS, where the
best brands of music ar kept in stock to
the tune of a hundred or more barrels, in
serts one into the mouth of the vast instru-
ment, gives the handle a few turns and
leaves it to pour forth whole volume of
melody, which as often as not madam a
browns bv her own magic music, which is
beyond compare. Above is music gal
lery, and one Of the happiest moments of
your life arrives when Patti sits down and
plays her favorite negro minstrel song
called Maggie Judah"