The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-06

coat had been cut of. The chasseur was
unable to account for the theft, which
had evidently been perpetrated by a
! clever thief in the crush of servants
! waiting in the entrance hall of the pal
ace. On the following morning the
count lost no time in sending the
| peIisse TO the furrier with orders to
! fix a new sleeve in place of the
| one that had been stolen. A couple of
hours afterward. and before the tailor
| had time to find a new piece of fox fur
! sufficiently fine to match that of the
! cloak, a servant dressed in the livery Of
the Woronzoffs entered the establishment
| bearing the missing sleeve. He stated
! that the police had just recovered it and
| that he had been sent by the count to
| have it sewn on quickly while he waited,
as his excellency wished to wear 1T the
| same afternoon Within half an hour
| the furrier had completed the Job and
| handed the pelisse to the fOotman, who
| straightway disappeared in the direction
| of the WOronzoff palace. Later in the af-
| ternOOn the furrier was astonished TO see
| the counts valet enter the shop and ask
| for his masters coat; and only then did
he realize that the liyeried individual
who had called upon him in the morning
with the missing sleeve was a clever thief
who had first stolen the sleeve with the
object of being subsequently able to OBJ
tain the entire coat, which has never
been recovered TO this day.
Countess Woronzof and her husband
have made one cast-iron rule, the observ-
ance of which has greatly facilitated
their intimacy with the emperor and en-
press. They have made law never, I'M
der any circumstances, to ask for any IA
vOr either for themselves or for any one
else; and hence, whenever either Of them
has had occasion to recommend appoint
ments, their maiesties have always bad
the assurance that the recommendations
were prompted in no wise by a
desire to serve the candidate, but
solely because they considered the per-
son in question as better qualified
than any one else for the post There is
no court in Europe save, perhaps, those of
the Balkan states, where there is such an
amount Of intrigue and dishonesty of one
kind and others as at that of the car.
This is due in great measure to the fact
that Russians, as rule, have more Of the
Asiatic than of the European in their
composition and all the oriental tendency
to plotting and intrigue. As the ear is,
tiRIlratiyely speaking, the fountain of all
honor and the man upon whom
alone rests the making or marring OF the
rank and position Of his subjects,
both he and the empress are generally
surrounded by a horde of well born but
INSCRIPTIONS people whose only aim in
life is TO capture either by fair or foul
means the favor of their majesties, upon
which everything depends In Russia, and
to GUST therefrom those who happen TO be
in the enjoyment thereof The only peo-
pie who are absolutely above suspicion Of
any designs of this kind are the Countess
Woronzoff- Daschkow and her husband,
who have but one fault, namely, that in
their efforts TO spare both the emperor
the empress from trouble and annoyance
they keep their majesties in ignorance of
many things that it would be far bettor
they should know, especially in so far as
public opinion and the sentiments of
their subjects are concerned.
The countess daughter, by the by has
Just become the wife of young Elm Demi-
doff, Prince of San Donate, and there is
quite a romance, according to the current
gossip in ST. Petersburg society, connect |
ed with the interest manifested by the |
emperor in the happiness of the bride |
groom and with the part which he has !
taken in bringing about the match. |
Young Demidoff's mother was Princess |
Metcherslki, maid of honor TO the late
czarina, and secretly atfianced to Alex !
ander III. before the death Of his elder |
brother elevated him to the rank OfczarO- /
witt. Alexander was deeply infatuated |
with the princess, who was highly gifted |
not only with loneliness Of a rare type, !
but also with intellect and delicate sensi- |