Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-21

group again uniting the two great
| names Napoleon and Victor Emman,
uel,
My second visit to Turin was from
the north, through the great Mont
Cents Tunnel. \ party Of ladies ana
gentlemen We're going down from AK
to see the week of fiesta. occasioned
by the wedding of the Due d'Aosta.
son Of Victor Emmanuel. to his niece.
| Letiua Bonaparte. daughter of the
Princess Clotilde, that brave lady who.
| when the BOnaparteS ran away, in
1870. from Paris, ordered her CARRIAGES
and drove in state to the Care de
! Lyon. and, surrounded by her footmen.
bought her tickets and moved off
| calmly, as the daughter of Victor EN-
| manuel should.
| The Due d AOsta was the second son
and was first married to Maria Wit.
| toria della ClSterna, a great hereSS.
! IN 1878. He was elected king of Spain
III 1876, but reigned only four years
| After the murder of Prim he left Ma
drid in such a hurry that his poor
wife was killed by the journey. She
| left him three sons the eldest now
| Due d'AOSta, is a very handsome, tall
| fellow, and it was he who led off the
! band of young hOrsemen, the cayal
| cade of honor, who brought in the
! bride from her mothers house to the
| PalaZzO Reale. These three hundred
! young hOrSemen, the flower of modern
| chiyalry, the pride of Piedmont, were
augmented by three hundred more on
the day of the wedding, and in the
dress of Prince Eugene escorted the
| splendid bridal cortege to the fiesta
| di Fiore in the Via Pc.
Two American ladies received cards
for the bridal ceremony in the Palazzo
Reale and had the pleasure of seeing
as fine a specimen Of royal court dress
| ing and pomp and ceremony as can
! be well seen IN this lower world. First
! the archbishop of Turin, Cardinal
Alemena and about fifty assistants in
the gorgeous panoply of the Roman
church; then the parliament. the min
listers, the civic council. then the
Count Gianotti, covered with orders,
Chamberlain of the king.
Then came the queen of Italy. with
the bridegroom; then the king of Italy,
with the queen of Portugal, his sister
a North Italy red haired blonde.
with sapphire crown; then came the
bride, Letitia BOnaparte, with her
father "Plon Plon;" Prince Jerome
Bonaparte, husband to Princess Clio
tide.
After this brilliant col tCge filled the
chapel we went home, to go out again
in the afternoon to see the FIESTA di
| FfOre. All Turin was hung with fes
toons of pink and white silk and vel
vet. We found seats in a high tribune
at the end of the Via Pc, where, with
! fifty thousand others, we looked at
royalty on lofty estrada shaped like
basket of flowers.
1t was a brilliant sight, especially
when the six hundred gay horsemen,
Gardes de Roi and Gardes a Refine
| in all the glories of those trappings
! which MaZarin invented for Anne of
Austria, came riding down. 1T is al
most impossible to realize the Titan
eSque beauty Of these five hundred
! beautiful young men, headed by the
three handsome sons Of the bride
groom. in blue, in green, in scarlet In
all the medieval splendor of a soon
| forgotten magnificence.
The next day the king Of Italy went
! hunting with Count Gianotti in RO-
magma, while the queen departed for
| the beautiful valley of AdOrnO, two
! thousand feet above the sea, where,
in stout boots, she climbed like q
chamois and led the life of a noun
taineer. The Due d'Aosta only lived
year after this. He had in his youth
desired to be a monk, and was, like
his sister CIotilde, very devout He
was quite elegant, slender and taller
than the king, who loved him very
dearly. He died, commencing his
young niece bride, Letitia, to the care
of the king, who has never neglected
the charge.
Princess Letitia has a very strong
BOnaparte face. She lives in England
great deal, and seems to enjoy it
better than Turin. The Empress Eu-
genie sent her all the jewels of Hor-
tense, which she wore at the wedding.
Another king who takes his pleasure
not sadly at AK is George Of Greece,
brother to the princess OF Wales. lie
is not handsome, but man of amiable
manners and gracious character He
comes as a patient, seeking the baths,
rest and recreation, and, perhaps,
stakes a Napoleon at baccarat of an
evening. A few of his gentlemen &C
company him, but he has no badge Of
royalty, walks about unattended, and
wears very plain, badly fitting clothes.
The audience rise when he comes
into the theatre, and when the nation
al air of Greece is played he rises, as
do all the members of his suite, but
else he might be Mr.. Barnes, of New
York
The everyday aspect Of the queen
of England at AK was exceedingly
plain. She drove with two or four la
dies in a barouche very afleirt On,
and had it not been for the little pad
groom, who went before h'r waving
his whip ferOciOusly, 10 ore would
have known that the empress of India
was about Nothing but the suhsorVi-
ency and the tOadyism Of the trads
of all nations can betray these people |
That is melancholy sight. 1t brings
Carlyle's famous estimate If the Eng |
lish people to mind, and wat is verse, |
it shows US that some so called rCpGb-
licans are the worst toadias % all |
WhV should one niece Of human CLAW /