AN ECCENTRIC NOBLEMAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 60, 29 March 1881, Page 4

AN ECCENTRIC NOBLEMAN.

One of -the wealthiest and most ec- ; centric nobleman ia Europe, Prince -Joseph Su'kowaki, Duke of Bielitz, t arrived at Copenhagen recently, on -. his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear hunting. He was aoippmpanied by a numerous suite, consisting of a highly salaried lady 'companion, $ maike de chapelle, a reader, a secretary, a body surgeon, a valet de chambre, two running footmen.' an enormous mastiff, af huge „" £uiang-outang, two valuable parrots, and several cagefulls of singing birds. One favorite member of his household, a Bengal tiger, he had been , .compelled to leave behind ac Hamburg, as the "steamboat authorities respectfully but positively declined to , convey that, princely retainer across ■ the seas Prince-Sulkowski's personal habits, as described in a letter from Copenhagen, are somewhat out of the common. Ho rises at one p ru. ' b'rwlrfasta au-hour later, ahd listens ' tb*i»isle4lf>s«l«ißtionßj: performed by .mtmbers of his household, until seven, eight he ihles A nap ' flowed by- more chßmber . miuuc until obe- r o'clock; a.mi, hie *^Wii*^^ni»erih«rt»p.*:H«viQg diaed; p§mp*iMsfr -n* *^Hie«-aut on {oot r *, Moompanied by his secretary^ and i' 4 'lrtfk# > jil)O^fr f ih©' town uaijl five, when I ht^Pethrffi^to'h^hotel^iid^goes to bid.