Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-04
Tctor Ndpoleon

longer hampered bE want of money, and
that the existing regime has of late been
rendered extremely unpopular by the Con-
seryative administration now in power.
Queer and HonneIy Looking.
OF all the pretenders whom 1 have met,
and with whom am personally acquainted,
the Duke of Cumberland, the claimant to
the throne of Brunswick, is certainly the
most homely and queer looking. This is
attributable to the fact that he was born
without a nose, the peculiar substitute
which now figures in its stead being merely
a sort of artificial organ without any carti-
lsge and manufactured by cutting strip
from the forehead and bringing It down
over the place where the nose should have
been. The result is that the Dukes nasal
organ possesses neither character nor re-
sistance. Sometimes it incliues to the
right and sometimes to the left Indeed,
its weathereock propensities have given
rise to no end of discussion and even quar-
rels. NV authority for this story concern
ing the Duke of Cumberland being born
without q nose is his own cousin, the Duke
OF Edinburgh, who is never so happy as
when he is able to say something disagree
able and unpleasant ABOUT the members of
his family.
The Duke of Cumberland, like both of
the other pretenders whom l have just
mentioned, is enormously wealthy. His
wife, daughter OF the King OF Denmark,
possesses some of the finest Jewels
in Europe, including q matchless pearl
necklace worth over $4,000, ,000 and
his silver and gold plate alone
weighs over Is tons. He is very clever and
well read extremely blameless In his private
life, as pig-headed and obstinate as his great
grand ather. King George Ill OF England,
and possessed Of very auachronic ideas con-
cerning the divine right of kings. His win
ters are spent at Vienna ard the remainder
of the year is passed at his fairylike palace,
on the shore of the Gmuenden Lake, in Up
per Austria. His son is boy of II or 13
years old, and it is for the sake of the lat
ter that he is endeavoring to secure a recog-
milton of his rights to the sovereignty of the
ancient Duchy of Brunswick. The Duke, l
may add, stands in the line of succession to
the throne of Great Britain as a descendant
of King George III. He sits in the English
House OF Lords as Duke of Cumberland, a
peerage which he inherited from his
grandfather, and he holds the rank of
Major General in the British Army He
is, however, on exceedingly bad terms with
Queen Victoria. whose countenance Of the
mesalliance of his sister, Princess Frederica,
with his late fathers aid de camp, Baron
Hawel-Ramingel, he has always bitterly
resented.
Little Money and No Character.
Infinitely less respectable than the Duke
and possessed OF very little money is Prince
Peter Karageorgewitch, who generally
makes Paris his headquarters. He received
his education at the French military school
at St Cyr, and when the war of 1870 broke
ont he enlisted as a private. His gailantry
was such that he was promoted on the field
OF battle to the rank of Captain and deco
rated with the Order of the Legion OF
Honor, distinction, however, which did
not prevent him subsequently from run
ming verv serious risk of being shot as a
spy by order of General, the Marquis de
Gallifet, who thoroughly distrusted him.
The Prince Is hReally descended from a
convicted parricide and his father was found
guilty by the Supreme Court of Hungary
of having instigated the brutal and cow
ardlY assassination Of King Milan's uncle
and predecessor on the throne of Servia.
In 1883 Prince Peter married the daughter
OF the ruler OF Montenegro, thereby becom-
ing brother-in-law to the Grand Duke
Peter of Russia.
he is, however, now q widower, and be
has qaarreled with his tather-ip-law on the
subject OF money matters. He is short.
slight in figure and very dark, with eyes
that do not inspire confidence. His friends
in SerFia constitute the Radical party,
which at the present moment possesses a
majority in the National Legislature.
Probably it is owing to this that the re-
peated attempts which have been made dur
ing the past two years to assassinate young
King Alexander have received so little at
tention on the part of the authorities and
have been lett practically unpunished
Prince Peter, may add, is treated at
Vienna as an aaventurer unworthy of the
slightest recognition. save on the part of
the police, while at ST. Petersburg le is ac-
corded all the honors reserved for princes
OF the royal blood
A SUIT for False Prctenses.
With regard to the French pretender
who Is styled by his friends "Charles Louis
de Bourbon, Duke OF Normandy" aud who
Is described as "Neuendorf" By his enc
mics, it j. extrswsly possible thet one Of