Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-15

HE Dt hE of otsLEANS.
 ilo, the future pretender was born abroad, at Twickenham, England, but as tho decrees of expulsion did not go into effect until some years later the youngsters education was begun fin Par Is at the Stanislaus college. While there he was noted among his comrades for dullness and bad temper, the latter of which was continually getting him into trouble
 There was but one thing which he could do well, and that was to ride. There was but one thing for which he had any ambition, and that was to be soldier. Therefore when the expulsion laws were passed. ill 1886, he sought and secured admission to the great Eng fish military school at Sandhurst, with the intention of entering tho British army. He remained at Sandhurst only single year, and when he left the school it was not to join the British army. A number of reasons, none of them the real one were given out for this, but it was said by those in posi- tion to know that it was because of many infractions of discipline, among them being the cutting loose of the cap tive balloon from which general com mandfng was watching certain military operations at Aldershot, that the duke was barred out.
 After that he tried in vain to get into the Russian army and then spent some months ill India, bearing the brevet rank of lieutenant, unattached, i'll the company of an English officer who was engaged as tutor to keep the lad out of trouble. During these months the young duke is said to have gone rather rapid pace. At all events, his father took oc- l casion to sec that the young man devot- | ed tho next few months to study in | Switzerland. There three tutors, two | in addition to the British officer, were provided.
 It was while in Switzerland thnt the | duke conceived the brilliant idea of get ting into the Trench army by enlisting under an assumed namc and in dis | guiSe. He had no difficulty in crossing the frontier into Franco nor in actually l cnlisting. but he was very shortly found out and promptly arrested There | was a great TOW when it was generally known that an Orleans prince had join- ed the army of the republic, and the | government was puzzled to know what to do with him.
 | It was finally decided to imprison ! him for two years, and six months of the sentence was actually served. Then he was pardoned, quietly taken to the frontier and released. It was after that that his name was coupled with that of Melba. the prima donna. She has al. ways claimed that it was n cruelty to charge improprieties between herself and the duke, alleging that their rela. tions were of the most innocent nature. Be that as it may, her husband, cer. tain Captain Armstrong, brought suit for divorce, naming the duke as core. spondent. He also sued the duke for alternating his wife's affections, laying the damages at s1O0, OO0 The suit was dropped as suddenly as it was brought, and although Mime. Melba felt much aggrieved over it she did not neglect tc ask for a raise of salary from 6, o0c francs . month to 1000 francs a per. formance because of the extra advertis. ing the scandal gave her, nor did her manager see fit to refuse the request.
 After that had been forgotten the duke, who was thrown over by his fiancee, the Princess Marguerite. be- cause of the Melba episode, was not fur. ther heard of by the great world till last year, when he tried to get into the Spanish army and failed. A few days ago. when the Count of Paris died. the son became prominent again, of course, because upon the counts death the mantle of the pretender fell upon his younger shoulders