The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-03
GOSSIP FROM EUROPE.
A Good Story Told Of the Late Red
Prince by a German
O1icer.
Why Emperor William Did Not
Appear in a Royal Sleigh
Ride.
A American Heiress who Could Not
Climb to Her Husband's Set Makes
Him Descend.

A American Heiress who Could Not
Climb to Her Husbands Set Makes
Him Descend.
Especial Correspondence of The I~NpEpENDENT.l
LONDON, Jan. IA distinguished Ger
man officer passing through London the
other day told me a good story OF the late
Red Prince. ave were on watch before
Metz my informant said, ION a bitterly
cold night. Chilling snow and rain were
coming down in torrents, when suddenly
our prince galloped up to where we were
stationed. and after a hasty Good evening
endured if we had any schnapps about us.
Il am almost frozen his royal hiGhness
ldded, We had one bottle of cognRc
between us and it nearly broke
nv heart to answe in the
affirmative. The prince took the
bottle with a grim smile and also took a
mighty pull at it. 'Donnerwetter, what is
it2' he then enquired, as If dissatisfied.
Cognac, your royal highness,' I answered.
Cognao? Then I will try it again. he ex-
slaimed, and the bottle was again raised to
his lips and we could hear the liquor
gurgling down his thirsty throat. Again
the prince paused. taking a long breath.
and we got a Whit OF the spirit which We
took ruefully as the remains of our bottle.
1t really tastes like ~cognac,' said the
prince, with the critical air of a connois-
seur, will you allow me to take a pull at
it?' AT your service, your royal highness,'
I replied somewhat sadly, and for a third
sinIe the base of the bottle was turned up
TO the sky. Very good cognac indeed,
comrade,' said the Red Prince, with a smile.
Many thanks for your Kindness and
handing back the bottle with about an inch
Of fluid remaining, he turned his horses
head and rode away into the darkness of
the night"
The much-talked of sleigh ride of the
royal Prussian court to Grunewald Schloss
last Sunday afternoon was not accompan-
ed by the pompa and ceremony fondly an
.icipated by the thousands who assembled
The cause was the absence of that particu-
lar s.star'' the emperor king. His majesty
started about noon for the B~randenburg
gate, driving a little Russian sleigh and
without any outward semblance of his ex-
allied rank except one stalwart footman
nthe royal Hohenzollern livery. On the
way he passed one of his courtiers also
driving in an unpretentiOus sleigh and in
luired "who was ahead" He was told
that his bro~ther-in-law. Duke Bernard of
Meiningen, was in a gorgeous sleigh with
Dutridere. The emperor promptly turned
his horses around, Remaining to the court
Ter thatthe Duke Bernard was able to pro-
vide all the spectacular effect required.
Duke BERNARD seemed rather pleased than
otherwise when informed that his majesty
'.had changed his mind'' and placing him
self at the head of the procession with his
wife. the emperor's sister, at his
e eallop. He managed his i've
horses %splendidly. Three of them we're in
advance, the two rear horses being har-
an elaborate affair from the royal stables in
Potsdam. The Prince of Hesse and the
Countess Hohenau occupied the next sleigh,
and a dozen others. occupied by more or
less distinguished people, followed. They
took the route through the Thiergarten
they were greeted by the band of the
guard hussars. A luncheon and a dance
followed. Emperor William and his broth
er-in-law often have tits, owing principally
to Duke Bernard chatting under the abso-
Lutte obedience demanded by the emperor
from all German primes 81, particularly from
those who are closely related to him by
blood or marriage.
A newspaper paragraph the other day
stated that the German empero at his din
ner table is always partial to oysters and
fish,, and expects them to be set before him
when he dimes out. I may state that in the
court circles of Berlin it is also we'll known
that the Kaiser adds to these international
delicacies the German schmorbraten, a bour-
geois dish composed of a piece Of meat
which is placed in a covered pot to be
steamed until we'll done. Onions and spice
are inseparable from this compound, which
certainly tastes somewhat strong to foreign
ers. At the table the monarch likes a brisk
and witty conversation and prefers young
men to old. He asks ~sverybody's opinion
and always seems on the alert for new
ideas and suggestions.
Royal privileges are being attacked by
iconoclasts in Berlin, as they are here fire.
quantity by Labouchere and his allies. The
GeE1lan liberal papers are commenting on
the fact that members of reigning families
in the fatherland are furnished on their
travels with parlor cars, for which they pay
only irst-class fares for themselves and
their suites. 1t is proposed to question the
minister of railways on the subject in the
reichstag and a high old time is promised
by the socialists.
That pretty little woman from Philadel-
phia who married last year the reignine
Count of Pappenheim (Bavaria) and found,
after settling her fortune on her husband,
that she could not attain to his rank, haf
become very popular in Berlin society. She
WAS a Miss Wheeler and as she could moi
ascend she made her husband descend
Count Pappenheim renounced his headshir
of the family and his title of "Erlaucht'
Serenity in favor of his younger brother
and now is recognized simply as a cadet Of
a noble family, nothing more. The whole
affair raised q great storm of Indignation il
Philadelphia, where the marriage was cele-
brated with most elaborate ceremony
However, Countess Macmillan Pappen
helm, as she is called, has some recognition
nevertheless from the royal circle which de
clined to receive her as the consort of tn,
chief of a family "mediatisee," and she i
to be presented at the Prussian court in Feb
ruary, with the rank, at least, of a noble
woman.
Bismarck's intense admirer, Herr Bower
urns even the princes we'll known care
~iessness of dress into attributes of great
ness. This is from his paper, the Ham
burger Correspondent: Even in small
things Bismarck's passion to be free from
all letters asserts itself. At breakfast b
wore neither collar nor cuffs; a white loos
handkerchief was around his neck and on
could sec his naked muscular arm to tn
elbow
Field Marshal Won Moltke has at last de
cided upon the utilization of the fund col
leeted as a birthday gift. Part of til
money will be used to buy Moltke's birth
place, which will! hereafter be at the dis
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