The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-14
LUNATICS OF ROYALTY.
INMATES OF The FAMOUS DOE
BLING ASYLUM.
Cousins of the Crowned Heads IN
Durance-s tories of Some Of Their
Strange Careers.

| sane asylum in the world. at any rate as
| far as the ra K and station of lis inmates is
CO ce ned, i, that Of Drs. Kraff -Ebing and
Won Lei q dorff at Doebling, a pretty vii
lage ituate1 about an hours drive from
| this cit. Several of the pers MS under re-
strain, both there and in the bra ich estao-
lisnment at q 'nz, are Of royal birtl, while
there Is hardly a patient who IS not
ii led to wear the ronet OF duke,
prince or count. Siany OF them have
figured pro inen:ly iu the contemporary
history of Europe, while the lives OF not
few are envelop.d in romance. Indeed,
admission to this most eIclu i've OF bedlams
is as difficult to obtain - he entire u the
Bal bAi Hof, as the priva'e entertainments
of the E npress Elizabeth are designated n
order to distinguish them from the ordinary
court ball or fbal.
Among those VINO may be describe as
out-patien of the asy u n are the kalSerin
OF Austria and the Gar ma of Ru siH, the
former being under tie re- Of DR.. K ati0-
Ebing, and the latter und7r tn 1t of DE-.
Won Leidesdorf. Am ng the inmates are
thu mothe OF the Ire man empresS,
Duchess AIDE aide of Scnl swiI-Holstein-
Aus ust IN urg. who, mt for the opDosltio
Of b aunt, Quee Victoria, wo Id hnva
beco ne the BRIDE OF Ma oleon Ill in 1852;
il esS Amelia of Bavaria. a Spa li,h
fanta by birth, who some SIX mont ago
caused general conservation at the grand
ope at Mu lcn by her ms me eak
OF Insisting to sit on the bslustrade
OF he royal box with her lie dangling
over; princess OF the royal uss of
Wurtembu q, another of that of Saxony,
and several members of the reigping fami-
lies of the pet5y severe mites of re ma ~.
The Duchess of Cumberland, sister or g
Phi cess of Walls, spent a yea in the
asy !um, and Is now livI G with her husband
agai :, almost cur d. while antaer royal
princess, who has but just been relea ed
from restraint the e, i the Duchess Of
aid at one time the betrothed of the late
ri g OF Bavaria Prince Rupert of
Bavaria, tie eldest grands IN of tae rege
of that kingdom and il the direct line of
succession to the t1role, has Likewise
within the past few weeks been
placed at Do bling under the care
I Prof. lie desdorf The young
man may possibly lie renemb red az 9
ero of an csc lde at Paris which caused
mu h excitement la t autumn. h mys-
teriously disappeared from Mu ich wit lont
warning any e f his d Apa t ire, d,
after muon searching, was discovered few
eeks later the F elcl metr pol living
wit the beaut full but ather eide " wife
q Munich trad 5 ian 1t was oily with
the greatest difficulty that he could be pre-
vailed u on TO lea the ba ks # the Seine
a ID for time h z eaty alarmed MS rela
tives by his tAreats of putin an end to the
life of the un % tunate shopkeeper in ques-
ton, with q view o marrying his wild W.
The only Ameri an inmate OF t 9 asylum
is the wife of a Swedls nobleman of niga
rank in the diplomatic service of his c0un-
try, and the daughter of a lady al.no t as
we'll kno Tn in L ndon as in the United
Sta es as talented if somewhat eccentric
diLettdnte il the world of letters.
O..e of the most remarkable patio IT'S,
no Kever, is the Prince of Montenuove,
VINO birth was a b1ect of much di
LresS to the imperial family CT Austria, and
wnose ist)ry Is a most onantic one. He
is son of the npress Marie Louise of
France, the wife Of the first Napoleon. nd
is a half brother Of the i'll fated lad VINO
was US lered ilto the world at the Tulleries
a. King Of Rome, and WAC died mysteri-
ously aJ Schoenbrunu as Duke of RAica-
sLadt. the father of Primo, Montenuovo
was the ill-favored and oae-eyed Field Mar
shall Cou t Won Neipperg, who, IN the de-
porCatio Of Napoleon t. St Helena, wa;
appointed tt the post of high "a MERRIAM
a VI clief ff1cer of the house lold of 70
E press Mare L 'ulse. 1t Is asse tel t lat
tne Austrian kaiser'S object in selec lag a
man Of Nelp Derg's u lovely appeara CO to
act as cont oller of his daughters court,
as for the purpose of avoid * thJ
scandal which was apprehelded IL
he had chosen a more attractive-look-
ing ottic'r. The cd intentio Of his
most apostolic m je'ty were, however,
frustrated, for Marie Louise fell deeply in
love with the grizzly OH warrior. who mad
been appointed more for the purpose of
acting as a Cerberus tina lytni else,
and gave him aer hand in marriage within
a fortnig 1t OF receiving the eSs Of her
first husbands death at st. Helen,
Unfortunately Prince u 'nJe luovo WAS
born just year before Napoleol's dsmise
took place, which vas exceedln ~ aWk-
was to find a name for him. According
the technical terms of the law he wa rnti-
tied to the name OF Bonapar e, having been
born during tue ed .ock Of his mother ." tin
the Ere CD emperor. AS, however. tbs
latter had been risoner In the Sjuth IN
All Intic, at distance OF ma ~ tn 1usa I'd
miles from his wife, during the FIVE years
preceding the chiid'S birh, it was
deemed unadviSable TO attempt t.
ioster him OF the BolsplrteS o.
the Other hand, the br 'th RS a
re ativs' Of Count N ipperg resoIu-ely de-
clined to permit tue child to bear their
name. The Neipperg' are one the
pr u lest and m )SG al tlelL q III 90 or the
Aust ian nobility, and they au yhtilt re-
fused IT, ernit tue i'll ,itlm tie cnIld of ons
of their uumb II to be en- tiled 10 the rights
and privileges of the family, 'emlng their
descent quite as 10 le aad as ancient as that
of tue Hapsburgs.
One OF tAer miab'e re mar s ca ne to
tie ears of old Emper>r Franz, wh)
adop ed a C aracteri,tlc ms5hol Of u lis ..
ing hem Tor it. He alnou 4ced his ilten-
TO caring for the cnild, a d conf -rrsd
upon it the title aid eff CJuat Monted.
uJvo,wh.c IS not ing else than tae salian
translation Of the worl Nelppegg. lie also
Sc tied large estates in Hu gay upon the
boy, & a, t .e latter grew up to mann Cd
loso no opp rtu Ivy OF ad aaci lg nis int =
ests II every y. Fortu Iatsly nag
NJ ntenuovJI he.ited none of tle Nelppers
uglineSs> b It on.y his mothers beau y. In
ell, be ears most r. ma klole reseln-
bance to he pic ures which ""mail OF the
Empress Marie Louise. In 1854 the present
emperor rails { . count, wno had meal
ii no becom, a general OF caval. y, to the
rank 4 a prizes Of t re EN- ii e, and AZ
l ted him to hs me.n0er of the
priv council Fortune appeared 10
laws all her gifts on the half-brother Of
tue Duke Of Reichsta until abou. ten years
60, whel be wa sul lenly stricSe W Tn
an acute form of de e TIA, wh.ch rendered
it necessary tlAo Q SHOULD be pla;ei un .er
re ,trailt. All mis- life pa sio t.e,y foad OF
music, 81 ce he 10 j., of his rsas IA, has ne
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