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Show A SLCEPINp BEAUTY. The I.OT Ilomanra or the I'rearnt I'm. pror of (lerinnnv. "When I was laat Miinmcr in Denmark," Den-mark," snyB tho I'ori correspondent of Truth, "I wont t(f I'rlmkenau.whcio the dukes of Augufctcnburg had their l-esldenco. Erapre5JVuguatu Victoria ivasborn and broughthip there The empress, as a child, hud known, I vvnn told by n member nf tho little iliuul court, the emperor In childhood llul going- to Cassel, al then to Uonn as n student, ho lost shjlit of her Tho acquaintance ac-quaintance was rcilewed under romnii-tlo romnii-tlo circumstances. When ho vva'i twenty or thcrcubouts ho wns Kent in tho early summer on n tour to IIol-steln, IIol-steln, and extended ll to Prhnltcnau Tho young princosjMvas a finely iov n. Klrl anOl-OUsPttJlUXfpW'. bhonno. how heard whovvaseolfg'rlrcfl?cfl, In her best to receive, him (Jrovvlnff tired of walling chojgol into a hammock ham-mock swinging in uh 'arbor, which was scented with ffeshly-blovv n lilac Thcro sho fell asleep.' Tho wandering princo enmc by tho arbor, saw tho sleeping1 beauty, and was conquered It la said that'nnho was gazing on hcraho was dreaming that, more fortunate, thnn her mother, she was bo Ing wafted to a magnificent throne, nnd tliat ah imperial crown had descended on ,h$r head Wllllum did not mean to qtsturli tho sleeping1 boauty, but, as usual, ho was lu mil form, and the dragging of his hu onion the asphalt of tliUfaummer house anil ibo clanking of hlsspurHbotra,vod him 8ho awoko, and saw a pair of eyes Hint looked lovo at Ijers, nnd then (the rushed away tovyird thn rcsldeiice Presently her tforuincss came to tell her that tho crown' princo of l'riibala ivaa thero. Her mother, tho duchess dowager, being lll;;lt devolved on Augusta Au-gusta Victoria to dp the honors She battened to welcome tho Illustrious visitor. Ho lost rjo timo lu declaring himself her lover and they rt era en-trutrcd en-trutrcd boforn hleft Ihe houso. |