Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-25

| MOrny and sold after MS uthIu' - "
weeks later the dethroned Grand Duke
of Tuscany having pat up for sale nus
| villa on the Lake OF Como, 1t was found
that the new owners were NJ. and Nine.
Musard.
THE NINE. MUsARD EPISODE.
Tn the Rois the luxurious equipages OF
Mime. Musard caused all to turn Their
heads. At the opera the diamonds OF
Mime. Musard and her sumptuous TOILETS
were the centre upon which all eyes were
fixed. The luxury Of the couple was
overwhelming, and its instantaneous de-
yelopment seemed to suggest the WORK
of fairy wand. =,
This iInproyised fortune was the work
of the King of Holland. Brought into
relations with Nine. Musard by an
Italian composer OF ballots, William IL.
amused himself by initiating Louis Alv.
and Louis XIV, and treating the beauti-
| full American as a Montespau or Du
Barry. But the circumstances OF thus
august caprice were so surrounded Win
mystery that nobody could venture be-
yond hypothesis and conjectures. In
reality the liason WAS managed us ioi-
lows;
At certain dates the favorite was con-
Quoted TO the frontier of Holland by her
Legitimate lord and master, Alfred Mu-
sard. At the Hague she was met by a
confidential chambermaid, who took he1
in post-chaise to q shooting box buried
deep in the woods. There she remained
shut up two or three days, never longer,
with the more than middle-aged gentle
man, who cllled her "Hi0 Ftte, and
who never let her 60 away except
loaded with presents OF all kinds, III
Guiding invariably a Dutch ca
nary in cage. at the frontier
Alfred Musard met his wife. The canary
was dropped, but the other presents,
etowed,away in the travelling bag, We're
carefully brought to Paris. And what O
store this bag contained Valuable pic
lures, silk stockings, diamonds, pearls,
and wards OF silk. velvet, cloth, shawls,
old china, silverware-the mixed con-
tents. of peddler's pack. From time to
time Nine. Musard used to distribute
lengths Of cloth and silk to the women
whom she hired to come to her dinners,
and, among others, to the Countess
Dash, who lad her hour of celebrity as
a novelist before the war.
William Ill. used also to go to PAN.
incoqnitO for twenty-four hours now anG
then. and in summer he spent a fort
night with his favorite in Switzerland
In his novel, "LAflaire Clemenceau,
| Alexander Dumas refers to the former
incident. Pierre, the younger sculptor
deceived by LA goes to Rome to try t
forget her. A friend writes TO him
1.-The King is so smitten with her tina
all of a sudden he abandons his king
dom to come to Paris incogRfO. H'
passes there day or night according
TO the hour at which he arrives and thel
goes back to reign. Or else it is she VIII
disappears for fortg-eight hours withou
anybody knowing whore she has gone.
A GENEROUS PROTECTOR.
The King, it appears, was the mos
generous of protectors, but the mos
tiresomo and uncomfortable OF lovers. IL
used TO make oil the actresses whom h
protected read aloud to him 50 as to en-
ioy their good elocution. The story run
that one day when no eXacted this fayo
from Nile. Abingdon, OF the Narietle:
whose intelligence was less considerable
than her beauty, she replied: "Sire,
will call nv mother. She can read niue
better than l can" William III. wa
probably not Of this opinion, for Mile
{ Abingdon did not remain long IN favoI
: Nine. Musard, on the other hanc
continued to be protected for some yeaI
after the war of 1S70-7l, and then, fine
| ing that her fortune was sufficient
colossal, she emancipated herself, an
began TO realize her dream OF livin
=: quietly with her husband, whom sh
l loved exclusively, in spite OF appea
q ances TO the contrary, surrounding hn
with all kinds Of attentions, never losin
i sight of him except when business Gale
h her elsewhere. After her husband 81
a loved her diamonds. "When l die,
r she used to say, II want to have all m
diamonds laid out on the bed" Still
: the brine of mature beauty, Nine. Nh
0 sard was smitten with blindness at thu
/ ty-seven and died raying mad in
o private asylum.
Her successor in the favor Of Willial
IA III. was Mile. Emile ANDRE, FrenC
o woman, who has had all sorts OF adyel
q lures. She was born in Africa, passt
8 her childhood in the desert, was smitte
v at an early age with craze for the stag
4 wandered over Europe and America
n an artist, was for a time q star at Il
p Italian opera in Paris in the old Sal
@ Ventadour, married a real coun
o made mess Of her marriage, +
n turned TO the provincial stag
10 and finally wrote the novel 81
10 Diva" in which the Prince Of Vale
ir James Gordon Bennett, and ChristiI
h Nilsson figure without being very fer
IT ciously maltreated. Emile ANDRE, WI
T. settled in Holland. made the old Kin
spend such. pile Of money that h
worthy Dutch subjects finally expelle
7 the fair cdsc0deuSe from their territor,
A She was the sovereign's last caprice b
n. fore he married the Princess Emma an
>. became thoroughly respectable and ven
10 rable. AS for Emile ANDRE, she is Ii
Of ing obscurely in the provinces and u,
Is troubled Win superliulty OF wealth.
ID THE CHILD WHO SUCCEEDS HIM.
is BY the death Of King William anoth,
70 little child becomesthe wesrer of q crow
IN The name Of Queen Wilhelmina of Ho
land must now DO added to that Of Kin
r Alfonso Kill OF Spain and the King
y seryia forming the trio Of Europes bah
!, royalty. The little Queen has just con
!, pleted her tenth year, having bee
Is born August 81, 1850. Young as ST
It is the question of her marriage has alread
S been discussed. She is pretty, fair-hai
o ed, girl and very closely and CAREFUL
guarded by her mother, Queen Emm,
i Who herself supcrintends O course /,
0 education which Is destined TO make Ii
r future Queen OF Holland one OF h
, most accomplished princesses Of Europe
. Her hand has alreadg been promised