ANECDOTES OF THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 12, 22 November 1883, Page 3

ANECDOTES OF THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD.

Numbers of stories and anecdotes are already being told about the Comte deChambord, some old, some new, and many not probably altogether reliable. They all, however, illustrate some phase of character or peculiarly of habit. Owing to the life of comparative retirement led for so many years by the deceased Prince, there are no startling and sensational incidents to be recorded of him, but only such simple stories as may be expected of so simple a nature. Many of them refer to bis childhood, when his grandfather, Charles X., was still upon the throne, and young Henri was studying with his sister, under the care of the Marquis de G-ontaut. Like boys of lower rank, he was rewarded for success at his books by small presents of money, which the young Prince, unlike most other boys, devoted to the poor. Indeed, so acute was* his fiodno of charity that it wns nnlv nncoHßnry IoBHV I” him when ho RComed in<Tin» -l Io qrosv violent, ” I’nkc c;»rc, neiir : if V”ii are so idle vmi- pont- <.-. dl dnrrprj’ fro ;■<. work • '<!■> >. r .-v o»»ergv in ordei b- e;trn b.’-i toward H-i p.ming to cverhem ;t dis -r-ii-i'-l olliecr «nr (<■ the I'.*”". ' V'.’uv Majesty cnnm»‘- imagine ho-v ’on”,- n.--.or relations I have discovered no\ I am a rich man.’ the .simplehearted l>oy ran up t.- him. crying. ; Oh, G-ev.e”al, if I had known you lure woilrM h ic’- harder., Bu’ ’’ ; I i r,,, ;

bystanders ran to the rescue. “No, no,” cried the Prince ; “if there be any danger that is my affair.” So saying he dug the spurs into the animal’s sides. The frantic horse reared again, lost, its balance, and fell over, crushing its rider beneath it. In its efforts to rise the animal weighed still more heavily upon the Comte’s leg, causing him dreadful pain, and as it proved in the end, breaking his thigh. His only remark wss, “ What a pity it was not on the battle-field!”— Leeds Mercury.