The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-18
THE UNLCCKY nAPsBURGs,
Battle, Aurder and sHiden Death Fave xarked
the Lives Of TIE Eapsburgs.

/ Battle, Asrder and sniden Death Fave xarked
the Lives Of tie Espsburgs.
Apropos of the suicide of Crown
Prince Rudolph of Austria it is re-
called that many of his ancestors
met with sudden death:
Macmillan the First married the
beautiful Mary Of Burgunda. Clad
in silver armor, wearing a garland
of pearls and precious stones, he rode
into Client to win her. Next morn
ing she was thrown from her horse
while hawking, and died in a few
hours.
Then Maximilian's possession. It's
hills and valleys are full OF memori-
ais of his hunting adventures. Once
he was caught ON the brink OF the
Marlinsward; was held two days and
nights in this perilous post, and was
finally saved from starving by
chamois hunter, whom he ennobled
under the title of 'The III allooer of
High Rock.
Macmillan had the boldness ofhis
descendants. He forced open the
jaws and pulled out the tongue of a
Gagged lion. He mounted to the
highest ledge of the tower of Ulm
Cathedral, and, stepping out on the
iron bar by which the beacon lantern
was suspended, he balanced himself
on one foot and posed the other in
the air.
Chsrles ", who succeeded him,
was not handsome. His long, pale
face was disfgured by the ugly lower
lip peculiar to the house of Haps-
burg. His complexion is said to
have been white as milk. At the bat
lie of Mublberg the Protestants
looked on him as a ghost or mummy
as he road along the lines, his feeble
limbs incased in glittering
armor, his hair turned gray with the
torture of the govt, his features pale
as those of a corpse.
Macmillan ii. died suddenly. He
too had long suffered from the govt.
A quack doctor of Ulm prescribed a
nostrum, saying that it had mirac-
ulous qualities. The King died OF
it.
Rudolph H., his eldest son and sue
cessar, was gloomy, passionate, and
hayward, like all his ancestors. His
madness assumed a new phase. He
tanned wild birds and beasts; he
studied magic and alchemy, he
strewed his beautiful palace with an
tiquarian odds and ends. His in
innate friend was DR.. John Dee, the
English alchemist and conjurer. His
Tread of violence was excited still
more by the appearance of Halley's
comet, which seemed to confirm all
his gloomy forebodings. His bed
room was like a fortified place. He
would jump up at the dead of night
and would make the Governor
search every nook and Granny of the
building.
Ferdinand III. died of a shock. A
fire broke out late at night in the
room where the Emperor lay sick.
A halberdier of the guard, anxious
to save the young Prince, then 2
months old, was carrying it off in
it's cot, when in his haste he fell and
broke the cradle. The babe was not
injured. but it's imperial father was
SO terrified that he expired, about
three hours atterward.
Queen Eleanor, who married Leo
pold l., was so devout that she
fiogged herself till the blood came,
wore spiked bracelets to torment her
wrists, followed professions bare
foot, and during the performance OF
operas, which her husband forced
her to attend, studied the psalter
bound up as a libretto.
Charles VI, though of stern and
melancholy appearance was as pas
sionately fond of field sports as
though he had been of British birth.
Undaunted by wet orcold, he would
20 out for days together, hawking
Or tracking the wild fowl over marsh
and moor. But he was also an ex-
:ellent musician, and had the fami0
taste for collecting coins.
Queen Maria Theresa, whom some
place among the gentlest of women,
is best known by the scene where her
majestic beauty, her animated adj
dress, and the deiicacy of her situa-
ton SO affected the Magyars that in
n moment they forgot 200 years of
revenge and cried: 1--WE will die for
our King, Maria Theresa.
Joseph l., like Haroun Alraschid,
Lowell to mix unknown with his peo-
Pile. In case of a food or fire he was
the first to the scene of the catas-
trophe and worked away Justify with
his own imperial hands.
Leopold H., his brother and sue
cessor, worked at alchemy and
chemistry. He, too, died by taking
quack pills but these were of his own
making. In his cabinet after his
death were found 100 pounds of
rouge pOWuer.
Francis l., was crafty and heart
less. His Ministers were gamesters.
When his physician, Baron Stiff,
speaking ofhis health congratulated
him on an excellent constitution.
"There is no such. thing" said he,
"as an excellent constitution. Ihad
no constitution, and never will have
one.''
Nilsson, Ferdinand l., being a tool
in the hands OF Metternieh, confessed
his weakness of mind and abdicated
in favor of Francis Joseph, the pres
ent Emperor, who has been humiliat-
ed by Prussia, but has still held the
dual Empire intact. His life has
passed smoothly and easily and no
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