Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-11-13
NATURAL HISTORY.
A"ners and Customs of European Royal
ties rs They Are-Not

NATURAL HISTORY.
"Anners and Customs of European Royal
ties rs They Are-Not.
The pomp and ceremony which serve
as a barrier between kings, princes and
grand duchesses, and Americans of
.he common or garden kind, render
It difficult for the latter to study the
manners and habits of the earth's eye
allied, except at very long range, and II IL
were not for the Information offered M I
by the makers of cigarette pictures, the
artists who design museum posters and
other persons possessed of accurate in
formation, it would be impossible to
give satisfactory account of their
various modes of life.
But, thanks to the great Al. erican
taste for advertising, says the Cincin-
natl Gazette, he who runs NAV read the
story of the daily actions of Englands
queen and Russia's car, not to mention
other personagcs of almost equal i'm
portancc.
From the trusty sources indicated
above, one learns that Queen Victoria
has in the evening of life developed an
extraordinary fondness for various
branches Of prepared food, many of
which are OF American manufacture.
In the morning she makes careful use
OF Apples soap, preparatory to partak-
ing cup of Steppc's cocoa. At lunch
con she tops with SlSimples canned
corn beef, and at dinner she will have
no dessert but Racy's prepared blanc
mango. So particular is her majesty in
regard to her favoritc articles of food
that every package, can and bottle
must be adorned with the name of its
maker in letters large enough to be
easily read by the group of princes,
princes, mobiles and courtiers who stand
at respectful distance whenever roy
atty partakes of any proprietary article
of food.
The prince of Wales has also been
noted for many years for his fondness
for extensively advertised toilet prep
arations and costly brands of cigarettes
and champagncs. Whenever there APP
pears on the market q new Turkish
. cigarette with gilt mouthpiccc, and
costing little more than an imported
cigar, we may be sure that his royal
highncss will contrivc to purchase at
least one box of the largest size, no
matter what economy he may be COM
PEELED to practice in other ways to
max up for it, and smokes the cigar
cites with much ostcntation on the
terrace in front of Windsor castle or
some other equally conspicuous place.
On such occasions the prince usually
wears n red uniform and is attended by
several regiments of lanccrs.
The late czar of Russia having been
brought up from his childhood on a
simple dict of caviarc tallow candles,
vodka, caravan tea, bears grease, and
other products of his native country,
never distinguished himself as con-
sumner of prepared food and drink. He
was better known-that is to the fire.
Qucnters of dime museums-as a mighty
hunter of freaks, and up to the day of
his death he was regarded as one of the
most distinguished and cruditc connois-
scurs of human monstrosities in all
Europe.
According to the unimpeachable tes-
timony of the superb works of art
WHlCu luIC VIC lluiIDlC uStlllCut
seeker into the temples which are given
over to the worship of the eccentric
and the dcforncd, his imperial maj
esty assisted at the capture of several
of the best known freaks of eastern
Erropc, and was always ready to ac-
cord special audiences to those taken
in remote portions of his empire. The
dogfaced lady, for example, was
dragged from her cave in the Balkan
mountains by detachment of the inn
perial guard, commanded by his maj
esty in person, and it was the same
enlightened sovereign who captured
the turtle boy, who summing himself
on bit of sandy beach on the Caspian
sea.
When prevented by officers of state
from enjoying the excitement of the
freak chase, his majesty always made
! it point to give special receptions a
the winter palace to such curioiitics q.
were found in his realm, all of which
| were instantly brought to ST. Peters
burg that they might receive thi'
special mark of the imperial favor. A
these receptions there was always ;
museum artist in attendance in ordei
that an accurate representation of thu
scene might be placed before the Amer
lean public, and it is through the mag
nifcent oil paintings thus obtained tina
we know of tho fondncss of Prince
GortchalSof, NJ. dc Gicrs, Prince Bis
marck and other eminent statesmen
for the society Of human monstrositie