St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-29
The SHAH'S BAD MANNERS.

Some OF His Peculiar Actions Dur
ing His Last Tour of Europe.
Nasr- ed-Deen, shan of Persia, who is
now engaged on his third tour through
Europe, says the New York World, is
far from being considered as welcome
guest by the various courts which he
has announced his intention of visiting.
In the first place. the royalties of Eu-
rope have retained most unpleasant
recollection of his disgusting and repul-
Sive habits on the occasion of his first
visit. His character is treacher-
Gus, cruel and deceitful, and his
manners are distinguished by that
utter absence of all ideas of de-
cency which is such peculiar feat
ure of Oriental life. On various occa-
siOns during the past thirty years East
Turkey, the khedive. the second king of
Siam and quite number of Indian
maharaiahs. have visited Europe. In al
most every case they have displayed
much refinement, elegance and courtesy
in their dealings with their European
hosts The latter were therefore but
ill prepared for the offensive and UNI
mannerly ways of the descendant of
XerXes and Darius.
After spending a couple of weeks at
st, Petersburg in 1878 he came to Ber-
lin. His behavior, however, was so in
tolerable that the old kaiser withdrew
from the festivities on the plea Of in
disposition and refused to see his Per-
sian guest any more before his depart
ure.
The whole burden of entertaining the
Oriental potentate fell on the shoulders
of the Empress Augusta, whose poetic
hankerings for the Orient, however,
were subjected to most severe shock.
Thus to this day she loves to relate in
her shrill and high-pitched voice how,
during the grand state banquet given in
his honor at Berlin, whenever he got
some food which was not to his taste in
his mouth he would cOolly remove it
from his jaws and place it on her Ger
man majeStv'S lap, to the intense hor-
ror of all present. Her magnificent
robes at the close of the banquet pre-
Sented most wOful aspect.
On his arrival in England he was
quartered at Buckingham palace. and
while in London he sorely tried tho
Prince of Wales by coolly placing his
hand on the bare shoulders of the prin-
cess while talking to her. Having been
entertained by the Duke of Sutherland
at the latter'S magnificent country seat
at Trentham, he coolly suggested to the
Prince of Wales that it would be in
every way advisable to put the duke to
death, on the ground that he was two
powerful and wealthy for subject.
Over S150,000 was required to render
Buckingham palace habitable again
after his departure.
The furniture had all to be burned,
while not only the silken panels, tapes
tries, carpets and paper hangings had
to be thrown into the flames, but it was
even found necessary to entirely re-
move the plaster of the walls and the
parquet floors of the rooRS which he
had inhabited. The slaughter of live
sheep for sacrifcial purposes in one of
the queens daintieSt boudOirs was but
one of the most pardonable of all his
offenses, and the stencil of the rooms
occupied by his Persian majesty was so
intense and unbearable that quantities
of disinfectants had to be used before
even the palace attaches could muster
up courage to attempt to clean up mat
tiers.
At Paris he was received in great
state by Marshal Mcmahon, at that time
leaving the country his baggage was
stopped on the Swiss frontier by sew
eral Paris jewelers.. from wham he had
purchased presents for the demi-mOnd-
aines of the French metropolis, but
which he had refused to pay for. At
Vienna he was quartered at the chateau
of Luxembourg, now the residence of
Crown Princess Stephanie, and before
he left got into serious trouble with re-
spect to young member of the Aus
trian half-wOrld, whom he had SUBJ
jected to. the most gross brutality.
His presence at Vienna was, indeed, a
sore trial to the courteous, chivalrous
and refined emperor. The Persian mon
arch had during the previous portion of
his tour developed strong taste for
champagne, and was staggering about
in maudlin state during the major
portion of his stay in the Austrian cap
ital. Nothing was more curious than
to watch the emperor present some dis
tinguished statesman or soldier to his
Oriental guest. The latter would gaze
with bleary eyes at the person bowling
before him, and then with short, con-
temptuous laugh and a twirl of his long
mustache, would leave the unfortunate
courtier standing there in a state of
mingled indignation and perplexity I'M