The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1880-08-17 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

JOILL— The grim humour of her uncle—iu which, however, there was a cintilla of cruelty, a ruspicion that the fun we more d.lci pus from the feet that the feelings or Boils of others was lacerated—wee on one or two occasions manifested by Anne. As a punishment (Jr his religious apostasy, els nominated Prince O mire., a nobleman of middle age and the wearer of an histor;c name, court page and court buffoon. There are few men h. r3;c enough to prefer death to life on dishonourable conditions when one or other of tho alternatives must instantaneously be chosen ; and this prince was of opinion that even the life of • public butt was better than life in Siberia or no life at all. Indignant that he wi re the cap an! 1 e'le with a smiling face an! showed no sense of humiliation, the royal hunaluner, wlile a broad grin on her broad face, and • malicious twinkle in her blue eye, ordered him t 3 marry • girl of low degree, promising to superintend and pay the expenses of the marriage festivities, and t 3 present bins with a palace of great brilliance and b. auty. The one she gore him was brilliant enough when the sun shone oo it I Toe festivities were conducted on a scale of national magnificence. More than 300 men and women were ordered up from the several provinces of the emp re to St. Petersburg to attend the nuptial. of the prince, and commanded to come in the peculiar dress and costume of their districts. On the wedding day the motley mob was assembled in the courtyard of the palace, where the habblement of many tongues and the want of • common dialect almost drove the responsible managers of the rejoiciogs to distracti and whence the wedding guests started in procesad n through the principal streets of the city. At their head marched the happy pair, locked together in • cue perched on the shoulders of an elephant. The guests, brought from their far glens and hills to make an hour's fun for • queen, followed on 'dodges drawn by all manner cf beasta—swine, calves, doze, reindeer, end bear,. 133 mis from far Archangel were hoisted bn the busks of camelr, fierce monstereof who's existence they wot not, end spent an hour of concentrated agony there; their reluctance to mount having bees overcome by 61/149 objurgation, which fell harmlessly on ears blissfully ignorant of their mean. incand by the f roe use of the cudgel, to the persuasive power of which they responded. A salute of guns aonoueced to the cilia ma the departure of the procession from the pause; it was fired from four small cannon and two mortars. The cannon could oriltr, hold balf-en-ounce of powder without bursting, and • mortars threw little wooden shells hardly as dangerous as a boy's squib; for the murderous weapons were made of in.. Dancing and drinking were kept up till an early hour in the morning, when the bride and bridegroom were conducted home by • military gum t to the mansion the Ensure had promised them. It wu a chamber of two apartments, built of ice. The furniture was of lee, the marriage bed was of ice, and into it the young couple, in obedience to orders from headquarters, after being stripped, were duly plated, and (wird. ANA sentry all night at the door to prevent them seeking warmer shelter.--Gesseismosa's Negunee.