Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — The Czar’s Melancholy. [ARTICLE]

The Czar’s Melancholy.

The (,'SMir is wild to have recently become so taciturn as to produce a painful etTeK on those about ’iim. During li 1 h sojourn with the Danish royal family he bus been dally observed by a person who has a country scat in the neighborhood of the ensile, and who has sent an account of his Impressions to the Berliner TngebVitt. "One has never heard him indulge In a hearty laugh," he says, "and his smile is melancholy and tired. I have often seen him lately walking in the castle park, dressed In his thick brown suit —which, however, does not conceal Ills extremely delicate physique. He was always accomiKiuied by one of bis relations, most often by the Princess of Wales or her daughter Princess Victoria; but lie himself spoke very little and was npimreutly always eugnged with his own thoughts, and only half heard what was said to him, while his fingers were incessantly passed through his thin beard. He walked with Ills head Item, Ills eyes east, on the ground, and he carelessly raised his soft felt hat without up when some few passers-by stood still and greeted him,” —St. James's Gazette. *