The Emperor's Eccentricities.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7546, 29 January 1896, Page 4

The Emperor's Eccentricities.

§-,- g sfv, '.Qjp the German Emperor's shooting party jKvafcLetzlingen recently, a Berlin corresponKdent writes :— The whole company was IK evidently in the best, of spirits. After |T- dinner one, day the Emperor recited a jfVv poem composed by himself, and thereupon l^eaoli, pf the guests had to make some M Impromptu verses. The result is said to !, .have been in many instances very laugh- :? able. Much amusement was also caused j-j'By the following episode. At the shooting fcbox thero. ia a goblet; of the time of William the Third. The vessel §*: ; ia i held between the points of an antler, I, .'and it is only possible to drink out of it t:/,py squeezing one's face between these g'.points. . The possessor of a rotund style flf'rpf : ; countenance, or anyone who is in any awkward, must spill the contents plover' himself. An inscription on the %:,-B°P^ ? a y. 8 tn »t persons who attend the ;; shooting party at Letzlingen for the first Ultimo must empty the vessel of its contents 'if— half a bottle of champagne— to the i'Empresa'. health. This time it was ■jfXJhanoelloi' von Hohenlohe's turn. He |t;tried to drink, and tried again, but to : ,the' great amusement of the party, he ;ij; could nob manage it. After luncheon, when gjthe party was walkiDg in the courtyard, »;.his 'Majesty r suddenly said to a gendarme i*'Btaeioned there, " What are you looking T-.at me so hard for ? You seem to think I fißftve no shooting license with me. Here ;iit is." apd presented to the man his ii license made out in his name, " William ajthe Second, German Emperor. Paid, :£fif teen marks." "But now, my dear Emperor proceeded to say, pi-Vyon inuat see whether the other gentlehave their licenses with them." The was that several members of d'the patty had their names put down for a