Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-08

sibility. Tho crown prince, as hc was at that time, happened to enter tho parade ground just bcfOrc the arrival of tho king. Catching sight of tho terribly stiff and stiltCd appearance of tho soldiers, hc drop ped n goldpiccc on tho ground beside tho man at tho extreme right of tho limo and told him to pick it up. Tho unfortunate soldier squirmcd and twisted and was finally obliged to confess his inability to touch tho coin. And with soldiers thus arrnycd one expects to win battlcs!" cx- claimed the prince, with bitter sarcasm. This uttCrancc was reported to his father, who inflicted upon him the penalty above described, but shortly aftcrNard modified the equipment of his troops
 Penalty For Indiscrction.
 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Aus tria, tho heir -prcsumptivc to the crown, who was in this country last year, has suffered at tho hands of his uncle, tho cm- pcror, n period of three months stubcnar- rest, during which time he was not permit ted to leave the precincts of his palace, to don his sword or to entertain friends His cousin, tho late Crown Prince Rudolph, underwent six weeks of similar seclusion just before his marriage for having creat- ed public scandal by his relations with the well known danseusc, Mile. Buska, at that time living at Prague. He had been lndiscrcCt enough to purchase some mag niflccnt furniture for her from one of the great uphOlsterCrs on tho RingStrassc at Vienna, and tho merchant, only too glad to make everybody acquainted with the imperial patronage by which he had been honorcd, found nothing better to do than to exhibit the furniture in his shop win lows, with largo cards intimating that it had been ordered by the prince for the lady in question at Prague. So great was the talk to which it gave rise that 1t almost resulted in the breaking of of tho match between the crown prince and Princess Stcphanic of Belgium.
 Lived on Short Nations.
 Tho brother of tho German empress, Duke Ernest GunthCr of Slcswick- Hol- | stein, has been repeatedly under stuben- arrest by orders of Emperor William, and sO too, has Prince Frederick Leopold, now coloncl of the garde de corps and | brother. in-law of his majesty. Tho Duke | Of Edinburgh, HOW ruler of the duchies of Sake Coburg- Gotha, was confined on board ship at the time of the Prince of Wales | wedding and dcbarrcd from taking any part iu that ceremony as n punishment for raisiI money among his messmates on | 5oarl a man of war, where he was scrv- | ing, by selling to the highest bidders the photographs and letters of his mother, the | auccn and those of his sisters-a piece of | sharp practice which aroused his royal mothers particular indignation. Even kings arc sometimes thus punished, and up to the time of his coup d'etat a year ago young King Alexander of Servia was frequently subjected by tho regents not merely to arrest, but to still further dis siplInc by being deprived of the dishes, especially the entrcmcts, of which he was most fond. Indeed the overthrow of the Servian regency was duo fur moro to a question of pudding than to question of politics.
 sinned and Ribbed About It.
 The young Bavarian Princes Rupert and Charles, who have distinguished themselves by running away from homo in fair but frail company, have had to spend
 many q month In tho enforced soclusion
 of stubcnarrcst besides having their by
 no means largo allowances docked by their
 father, Prince Louis, the country's futurC
 king, who Is exceedingly strict with his { children and intolcrant of any breach oi l discipline Princo Charles of Hohenzol
 Tern, who has just married Princess Jo
 sephInc of Belgium, likewise ran away
 from home, tired of tho strict discipline
 He had four yosng fellows as his compan