Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-11

other that he was afraid of assassination
He had troupe of about I. 900 soldiers about
him snd General Osman Pasha, the hero of
Pleyna, sat in the carriage BY his side.
Nevertheless he trembled as he passed along
on the way TO worship at the mosque and he
inspired me with pity rather than with re-
spect. l was told at Constantinople that he
feared TO go 10 bed at night and that he
often sits Up until daybreak. He has his
wa,chmen always about him, and in the
towers Of his palace there are guards who
are ever on the lookout
The Gar Is Not a Coward.
The Gar has nothing of the coward about
him. He looks like monarch and every
inch Of his 6 feet 4 is kingly The
Romanoff family from which he comes has
always been noted for the splendid
physiques OF its members, and Alexander
III is giant He stands 6 feet inches in
his stockings and he weighs go pounds.
His biceps are as big around as the ordinary
mans leg and his strength is prodigious.
He can take horseshoe, 1 am told, and
Seud it double in his hand. and he can take
golS coin The size of dollar and fold it In
halves with his fingers His head rises
above those of his suite and the Russian
costumes which he wears make him look
even taller than he is.
When ] saw him the other dav al Catch
ina he had visorless Russian cap on his
head and his massive frame was clad in
long oyercoat and his trousers were thrust
into pair OF top boots His uniform was
thar OF one OF his regiments, and he wears
different uniforms from time to time in COM
plImeut to such companies OF his soldiers as
most see him. A regiment considers it
great hattery TO have the Gar wear its uni
form, and this is one of the ways in which
he gf.gR l. &c Al Ill r
soldiers. he is very fond of his soldiers
He addresses them as his children, and they
call him tie 'Iather Car"
i4'W the Gar Takes Exercise.
The daily life Of the Gar is simple in the
extreme. He keeps his great frame in
good condition by regular exercise, and like
Gladstone, he often goes out and cuts down
trees IN his forests. He sometimes saws
these trees into lengths with a cross-cut
saw and he does all sorts of manual work,
He is an athelete Of the first order and he
Is fond OF playing with his children. and
during his stav at Denmark he had a num-
Der Of wrestling matches at the palace
there, in each OF which, I am told. he came
out victorious He is fond of horseback
riding and be has $50 saddle horses in his
stables here. His stud contains some of
the finest horses in the world and he knows
al about horses and is anxious TO improve
his stock and is very careful as to the char
acter Of the horses which are brought into
the army, He often drives himself with
bis vile beside him, in a phaeton about
Gatchna and he holds his reins with his
arms stiff, in the Russian fashion
visited the museum in which the impe-
rial carriages are kept the other day and
spent hours wandering through the hum
dreds OF golden coaches and gorgeous Ian
daus, each OF which is worth MANY, many
thousand dollars L handled harness which
was inlaid with precious stones and the
metal work OF which was of solid gold or
silver saw harness cloth embroidered
with pearls, and the total value of these
trappings and coaches runs high into the
millions Of dollars. As l looked at them T
could not but think of the simple carriages
which the Gar really uses and how far his |
Bpirit is removed from that OF ostentation. |
Alexander Does Not Care for siye.
he leads more simple life, in fact, than |