Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1891 — CROWN AND SCEPTER. [ARTICLE]

CROWN AND SCEPTER.

Prince George of Greece is a famous boxer. The Prince of Wales’ life is insured for SBOO,OOO. The czar o* Russia never shaves, merely using a pair of scissors to trim his beard. The queen of Saxony maintains three physicians, whose sole duty is to attend the ailments of the suffering poor. The queen pays the physicians out of her own private purse. Prince Alexander of Batteuberg, former ruling prince of Bulgaria, who so gallantly defeated King Milan iu the BulgarianServian war of 1885, is dangerously ill. He is sufferiug from an ulcer in the stomach. King Otto of Bavaria struts about the gardens of his prison palace with a wooden musket on his shoulder and takes an imaginary shot at every one who approaches. The king is now forty-four years old, aud his mental condition seems to grow worse rather than better. Queen Victoria’sfamily circle now numbers fifty living descendants, including sous and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, . great-grandsons and great-grand-daughters. Besides these she has four sons-in-law, four daughters-in-law, five grand-sons-in-law and one granddaughter-in-law. Two curious old relics of European royalty are passing their declining days in obscurity in London. They are the Prince of Mantua and his aged mother, the duchess. The duchess is nearly ninety and her son is well on in life. They live in very humble style, but still retain a rare collection of jewels and bric-a-brac. Although the boy king, Alexander of Servia, is not yet fifteen his marriage is already being planned. Princess Xenia, of Montenegro, sixth daughter of Prince Nicholas, is the bride in prospect, and should the negotiations succeed the princess will come to Belgrade to be betrothed to the king on his fifteenth birthday.