St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-26

lIc uutcu ulcu vi 1903. anu us regent
during the minority of Pedro V. Prince
Ferdinand won the respect Of all parties
in Portugal. Then, after sixteen years
of wldowerhood, he made the Countess
of Edia his second wife. She was born
in Boston, Mass, her name was Elsie
HenSler, and she came to Europe to
complete her studies as a singer. The
eX-king Ferdinand died six or seven
years ago, leaving her II fortune Of
about f.20, DOC, 009. She Is still living,
and her charitable and kindly deeds in
Lisbon have endeared her to the hearts
OF all persons in the kingdom.
AS for the throne OF Brazil, Dona
Maria's father left it 10 Dom Pedro H.,
father of the eX-emperor who went
South the other day on the same train
that carried James Gordon Bennett to
Cannes, and whence, by the way, he is
going to drive tour fine horses daily to
Nice aud Monte Carlo. A mail coach
going swiftly along, and the cadenZas
of a long brass horn reverberating in
the Riviera! just think of it.
1t was wise of Dom Pedro to come to
Paris, for he could pass a much more
agreeable life here than was possible at
Rio de JaneirO. Without being as rich
as a Jew banker he has enough to en-
JOY all the comforts of civilization; and,
before he went South, he was fond of
going from libraries to museums, or
from the galleries of the senate cham
Der to a boulevard cafe, where he sat
and slipped his drink like any common
mortal.
He liked to mix with the crowd, and
Gallo Joviality had influence on him.
If a louuger OF an abSinthe drinker let
fall a word that was new and witty the
eX-emperOr picked it up with as much
hnotn no 1rnrnlA N 1Dr, Dan. @,--
quickly as a street lOafer would pick up
a pearl pin that he saw slip out of a
gentleman'S neckJie.
L lave seen him walking along the
b~oulevardS. looking into windows at adj
mlra6le water color drawings, oil paint
lngs, brOnZes, Japanese ware, a thou
sand other curioSitieS such as are dis
played i'll nearly all glass f%rontings.
What Change
in a single t~welvemonth. He was then
shut up in a palace, in a prison Of
marble and gold, out of which he could
only go at certain hours. A so-cailed
master over others, he was forced to
obey twenty subordinates. The slave
OF etiquette. watched Oy foreign am
~baSSadors, a target for the press, he was
tied hand and foot with the thread of
politics.
He had to rack his brains to keep the
equilibrium of the cabinet; had to
determine whether war should be made
on Chill, or peace concluded with the
Argentine Republic. He had to learn
by heart the catechism of finances. GUS
tom house questions, and cod fishing,
and above all he had to look we'll to it
that he did not tread on the tail of
Uncle Sans coat, or misunderstood the
people of the American Union.
Now this eX-mOnarch was not the
only one of his kind here in Paris re-
Gently. Wherever we 90 we are apt to
come across other fallen grandeurs, for
France and Brazil are not the only
countries that have baen turning roy
atty out of palaces. Out yonder in the
%FaubOurg st. HOnore | sometimes
meet a man OF medium height. who has
mournful eyes, and never a smile or the
least animation is seen on his plain
looking cOuntenance. He walks with
short steps and lowered head, and holds
a prayer book under his arm. ''Francis
H., last king of Naples" whispers some
of the paSserS by who see him; and
right they are, for it is indeed the man
whom Garibaldi overthrow in a single
hour. Every day from his furnished
apartment he goes to play in the church
OF st. Philippe du Roule, and this is
the only thing that he seems eyer to
care about.
Up by the Arc de Triomphe people
often run across a red-faced woman
whose body is bloated, and who has
skin disease. That is Isabella H., eX-
queen of the Spaniards. Time was
when she was a femme legere in Mad
rid, but now, despite her e%lephantine
form, she does much good in the way Of
charity.
AS for her husband, Don Francis
d'Assise, he is another Bourbon without
Francis Ii. But he was never any
thing more than
A Kings Shadow,
and now hides himself in the suburbs
out at Epinay. He keeps neither stud
nor harem, nor has he always lived we'll
since he came to France. Nothing in
Spain but the husband of Isabella, when
the revolution blew them both over the
frontier and into Paris, the lot of prince
consort to her majesty became very diff
fegcnJ from what it had been in Madrid.
1t is true there was still as much of
Bohemia in the Palais de CASTLE as there
was in that of the Villa Caroline, which
he was forced to occupy out by the Bots
de Colonies, but the former mansion
was a gllded one, safe from sheriff'S Of
ficers, while that in the country suf-
fered from all sorts of %annoyances. In
his little villa Don Francis d'Assise had
only II or two Wallets to wait ON him,
and his son, he who afterward became
Alfonso Kill. was his only compan-
ion. The villa in which they lived
was built by a former dress
maker to the Empress Eugene, and is
next door to the property of one of the
editors OF the Evenement newspaper.
Don Francis is a little old man with
Smoothly-shaved cheeks and chin; he
has a small mustache and dresses so
STABILITY that he has been nicknamed
''le petit pere" by his peasant neigh
bOrS.
In course of time. when the son came
to the throne, things were changed for
the father. He was given a handsome
allowance and was sent to live in-state
and comfort at Epinay. 1t is q splendid
house, filled with beautiful paintings,
and over it floats in triumph the Span
iSh royal standard. Once the place was
owned by a Jew banker, from whose
hands iG passed into those of the mayor
of the town, who was for establishing
in it a municipal museum; but the al
dermen refused to ratify his purpose.
Then an English lady bought it and
started a boarding school; she had
buloiJ ONOh III NV PilCO q NtdI WIlcIl
she sold it. for double the money, to
Alfonso XII. Workmen made their ap-
pearance within its walls, and O it
became a magnificent country mansion.
A pretty porter's lodge was built, and
so, too, were stables. Inside a chapel
was made out of one of the rooms on
the ground floor, another was turned
into a state drawing room, and out of it
you car pass by large windows into a
theater.
The king of Spain sent up to this
place some most wonderful GObelin
tapestries; large greenhouses were add
ed. and the place is much Iivelier than
it was a few years ago; for Isabella and
Don Francis have made up with each
other, so to speak, and he comes into
town occasionally to dine with her at
her palace i'll the Avenue Kleber.
This makeup" on their part permits
Spanish nOblemen with their wives and
~dauUhtQrS tn call nm him c~omathipr