Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1891-07-23
Eccentricsin High Life.


To the "Odessey" of Prince Joseph
Sulkofski. who was imprisoned In q
lunatic asylum at Vienna, escaped
to Switzerland, and once again I'M
prisoned in an asylum at Brun, has
now been added another chapter,
saws the Pail Mall Gazette. Aboard
of medical men who have been "sit-
ting on the eccentric Austrian mil
lionaire have declared that he is per-
fectly sane, and that what in his case
has been pronounced insanity was
nothing but riginality and eccentric
ity, and consequently his highness
the prince is once again at liberty
and able to pursue the uneven tenor
of his ways.
Apropos of Prince Sulkoffski's re-
lease, the Paris Figaro publishes an
account of a number of other eccen-
trio personages in European high life;
among them King Louis II. Of Ba-
varia naturally takes the first place.
Duke Theodore OF Bavaria, who has
recently performed his thousandth
successful operation as an oculist, is
mentioned as the one member
of the Bavarian house whose &C.
centricity is of a useful and
laudable kind. His two august Sis
tiers, the empress of Austria and the
queen of Naples, have also many
traits in their character which mark
them at once as belonging to the &C.
centric Bavarian race.
In the Hohenzollern this "particu-
larism" has, ever since Frederick
William l., and Frederick the Great,
shown itself in a brutal and cynical
trait. An exception to this rule is
Prince Frederick, the owner of the
charming castle Of Rhenstein on the
banks of the Rhine, who often shows
visitors over his beautiful residence
and explains the treasures of his
museum OF antiquities.
But the best and most frequent
specimens of an eccentric nation hall
from the land of John Bull. Among
them ismentioned Mr.. Cecil s. (the
Figaro warily suppresses the sur
name), who, for many years, made
Paris ring with stories of his wild do
ings. Finally govt attacked him,
and he was doomed toperpetual con-
fnement at home. The ballet having
always been specially ptronized by
him; Mr.. s. started ballet in
his own four walls, where he
kept an entire stage with all that
belongs to it, including costumes of
every possible variety. Five or six
spectators were invited to the chore-
ographic spectacles, the artists in
which we're paid with more than
princely liberality. Although Mr.. S.
could never set a foot outside his
house he always retained his ten
horses and four carriages, which were
regularly driven about in the Bots
and on the boulevards, somewhat
like the empty carriages seen behind
ahearse.
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 revolu-
tionary country in Europe, it is con-
sidered extremely ill-bred to show
any eccentricity. The first Russian
OF the old school who made Paris the
scene of his exploits was NJ. Dimitri
D-whose fame was chiefly acquired
by his marvellous capacity for drink
ing champagne. Ingratitude to the
bottles out OF which had come the
chief enjoyment of his life he collected
the lead papers with which the corks
of champagne bottles are covered,
and out of those which he and his
friends had consumed lead coffin
was made in which the Russian was