AN ECCENTRIC NOBLEMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 363, 15 March 1881, Page 3

AN ECCENTRIC NOBLEMAN.

One of the wealthiest and most eccentric noblemen = in Europe, Prince Joseph Sulkowski, Duke of Bielitz, arrived at Copenhagen a few days ago, on his way to Norway, where he proposes to spend the winter in bear hunting. He was accompanied -by a numerous suite, consisting" of a ■ highly- salaried lady companion, a raaitre de chapella, a reader, a secretary, a body surgeon, a valet dechambre, two running footmen, an enormous mastiff, a huge ourangoutang two voluble parrots, and several cagefuts of singing birds. One favourite member of his household, a Bengal tiger, he had beeit compelled to leave behind at Hamburg as the steamboat authorities respectively 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. He rises at one p.m., breakfasts an hour later, and listens to musical selections, performed by the members of his household, until seven. Prom seven to eight he takes a nap, which is followed by' more chamber music until one o’clock, a.m, his ; regular dinner hour. Havingdiiied sumptuously, he sallies out on foot, accompanied by his secretary, and walks about the town until five, when he returns to his hotel and goes to bed.