Evening journal., 1892-11-19
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private fortune is about The most trying
situation TO which a human creature
can be subjected ! have come across
in my day not a few illustrious person
ages TO sgii5m this test was applied by
fate, and do not remember one, unless
the late king Of Hanover, who went
through it like first rate man or WON
an, though some Of them bore reverscs
Better than most persons Of far lesser
rank known to me, who had fallen in
the world and prided themselves on hav-
ing seen "better days"
Don Juan Of Spain, father Of Carlos,
and husband Of the beautiful and splen-
didly lowered Archduchess Beatrice Of
Este-Modena. was a lazy old loafer.
When lat home" he lived in the Regents
park with a lady who was not at all
archducal and seven or eight children.
who unfortunately for themselves were
every inch Spanish Bourbons. When on
the continent Juan was sometimes mr..
Johns, sometimes "Mr. King" or IN.
le Roy" and again, "Mr. Bliss" "a trans
lation of his wife's name), lived gener-
ally en- garni and dined at cheap tables
fhote. His breath used 20 smell Of
mutton ragout, dish that sticks TO the
breath like'garlic.
The king oisNaples also loafs through
life, but in a harmless, gentlemanly
fashion. He has hopelessly lost his bear
ings since the Italian cOnfectioner mt the
corner of the Place dc Ia Bourse was,
through having given credit too freely
to the kings followers, obliged to shut
uh shop. The poor confectioners sup
Piled dinners for an ago 20 one Of the
king'sf brothers, and will have to wait
for payment until the Neapolitan Bour-
bons are restored. Going to lunch at
that confectioner's, which he always did
on foot, enabled Francis II TO get through
several hours every day. and afforded
him an easy walk 10 and from the hotel
in the Rue Bossy d'Anglais, in which he
has lived ever since he came to abide in
Paris. He shares 50 little the tastes oil
his wife; who goes in for race horses,
as in point of fact to live alone. though
en- menage with her The august pair
rather camp than reside here.
The Duke Of Aquila, having run
throughhis own and his wifes fortune,
was ages ago obliged TO quit the beauh-
full villa in which he lived for some
years in the Avenue du Bois de Bon
logne, and he is nova pehsioner Of King
Humbert TO the amount Of 500 a year
| 10000 lire), and also lives en- garni.
lIe however, makes up well when he
goes TO dinner parties, and has a touch
Of naval franlness that is pleasant He
/ drew a good pension so long as the
Brazilian empire lasted rs its lord high
admiral and filed a corresponding stu
alton in the kingdom of Naples before
1860. | do not suppose that he is much
Of a seaman, but he was formerly alwav-
entertaining or being entertained by
naval officers, and his manners took a
color from theirs. He manages TO keen
up ioxial spirits under depressing cir
cumstances, which think creditable to
him.
Comte de Bari, his nephew, has found
consolation for personal and family
losses and crosses in marriage with a
lady of the corps dc ballet, and has
adopted a son who is nearly his own
age, TO the great disgust of the ex-king.
In Italian law the adoptee is a member
Of the Bourbon family, whatever he
may be in blood, and is supposed by II
to be a grandson Of the illusuious Arch
duke Charles and of Ferdinand III of No
ples.-paris Cor. London Truth