Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1880-08-20 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

PRESS'S JOICE.—The grim humour of her uncle—.o which, however, there was a scintilla of cruelty. a euenicion that the fun wee more dsLcioua from the fact that the feelings or flesh of others was lacerated—was on one or two nee:Woes manifested by Anne, As • punishment f.r his relteieus epestatev, she noiniunted Prince Gsllitien, a noble:pin of middle age and the wearer of an historic name, court page and court buffoon. There are few men herite enough to prefer death to life on dishonourable conditions when one or other of the alternatives must instantaneously he chosen; and this prince was of opinion that even the life of a public butt was better than life in Siberia er no life at all. Indignant that he wre the cap and es with a smiling face and showed no sanse of humiliation, the royal humourtst, with a broad grin on her broad face, and a Celdieiolle twinkle In her blue ny., ordered him to marry a girl of low degree, promising to superintend and pay the expenses of the marriage festivities, and to present him with a palace of great brilliance and beauty. The One she gave him was brilliant enough when the nun shone on it I The festivities were conducted on a scale of national matrnifiOenCe. More aim 301 men and wsmen were ordered up from the several provinces of the empire to St. Petersburg to attend the nuptials of the prince, and commanded to come in the peculiar drone and costume of their districts. On the wedding day the motley mob was assembled In the courtyard of the palace, where the babblement of many tongues and the went of a common dialect almost drove the responsible managers of the rejoicings to distraction, and whence the wedding guests started in proceseicn through the principal streets of the city. At their head marched the happy pair, locked together in a cage perched ! on the shoulders of an elephant. The guests. brought from their far glens and hills to make an hoot% fun for • queen, followed on sledges drawn by all manner of beasts—swine, calves, doss, reindeer, and bears. Some from far Archstigel were hoisted on the hicks of camels, fierce monstersef whose existence they wot not, and spent an hour of concentrated agony there; their reluctance to mount having been overcome by fierce objurgation, which fell hermlersly on ears blissfully ignorant of their meaning,and by the free tweet the cudgel, to the persuasive power of which they responded. A salute of guns announced to the citizens the departure of the pegoesalon from the peJace ; it was Bred frem four small cannon and two mortars. The cannon could only hold half-an-ounce of powder without bursting, and the mortars threw little wooden shells hardly is dangerous as s boy's squib; for the murderous weapons were made of ice. Dancing and drinking were kept up till an early hour in the morning, when the bride and bridegroom were conducted home by ! a military escort to the mansion the arnpress had promised ! them. It was a chamber of two apartments, built of ice. The furniture was of ice, the marriage bed was of toe, and Into it the young couple, in obedience to orders from headquarters, after being stripped, were duly placed, and guards stood sentry all night at the door to prevent them seeking warmer shelter.—Gentimisaa's Xagatine.