Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-11-14
"ECCENTRICS" IN HIGH LIFE.
Some Peculiarities of a few of Europe'a
oldest "Crankso
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

From the Pail Mall Gazette
To the odyssey of Prince Joseph Sulkoffski,
who was imprisoned in a lunatic asylum az
Vienna, escaped TO Switzerland and. once again
imprisoned in an asylum at Brun, has now been
added another chapter. A board of medical
men who have been sitting on" the eccentric
Austrian millionaire have declared that he il
perfectly sane, and that what in his case had
been pronounced insanity was nothing but
originality and eccentricity, and consequently
his highness the prince is once again at liberty
and able TO pursue the uneven tenor Of his
ways.
Apropos OF Prince Sulkoffskrs release. tho
Paris Figaro publishes an account of a number
of other eccentric personages in European high
life; among them King Louis III of Bavaria
naturally takes the first place. Duke Theodore
of Bavaria, who has recently performed his
thousandth successful operation as an occulist,
Is mentioned as the one member of the Bava-
rian house whose eccentricity Is of a useful and
laudable kind His two august sisters, tho
empress OF Austria and the queen of Naples,
have also many traits in their character which
mark them at once as belonging TO the eccen-
trio Bavarian race.
In the liohenzollern this .'particularisms
has, ever since Frederick William l. and Fred
erick the Great, shown itself in a brutal and
cynical trait. An exception TO this rule ~
tue owner OF the charming
castle OF Rhenstein on the banks OF the Rhine,
who often shows visitors over his beautiful res
idence and explains the treasures of his museum
of antiquities.
But the best and most frequent specimens of
an eccentric nation hail from the land of John
Bull. Among them is mentioned Mr.. Cecil s.
Cthe Figaro warily suppresses the surname),
who, Tor many years, made Paris ring with
stories of his wild doings. Finally govt at
tackled him, and he doomed TO perpetual
confinement at home. The ballet having
always been specially patronized by him, Mr..
5. started a ballet in his own four walls. where
he kept an entire stage with all that belonga
to 1t. including costumes of every possible
variety. Five or six spectators were invited to
the choreographic spectacles, the artists ia
which were paid with more than prncely
hberality. Although Mr.. 5. could never set 4
foot outside his house he always retained his
ten horses and four carriages. which were
boulevards, somewhat like the empty carriages
seen behind hearse
Russia, too, has always had her eccentric
representatives at Paris. but has now accepted
the social law OF France, according TO which,
among the inhabitants of the most revolutions
airy country in Europe, il is considered ex-
tremely lll-bred to show any eccentricity The
last Russian of the old school who made Paris
the scene of his exploits was NJ. Dimitrl D,
whose fame was chiefly acquired by his mar
Vicious capacity for drinking champagne. In
gratitude TO the bottles out of which had come
the chief enjoyment of his life he collected tha
lead papers with which the corks OF champagne
bottles are covered, and out of those which he
and his friends had consumed a lead coffin was
made, In which the Russian carried to his