Show KOYAL dimig lal all th trienes in vienna loiter in aeu york hidden aay in llie depths of dense forest some five hours b rail to the south efthia city is on of the most picturesque and stately catlos it ia to cou ceiva ala annd burt and drawbridge the dark walls ot undressed granite pierced mul wini lowa and nith turrets and battlement all unite to carry one back to th feudal ages un eliat ii further strengthened by be ble aspect of the glorious old frets which the netting or ls architectural gem it stands quite far away from any othir human and with caption cf the game keepers and forests garbed in tho imperial livery who have orders to prevent the approach of any within two niiles of the chateau oot a soul is to be seen anywhere in the neighborhood hardly a sound la to be heard and notwithstanding the presence of over sixty blooded horses in the marble wainscoted a tend ants and domestico domestics in the chateau a strange and silence on all sides every voice la bushed and even the very dogs appear to have been trained to bark and yelp in a mere whisper indeed like the enchanted palace of the sleeping beauty in the fairy tales the whole castle seemed to be sub jcck to the spell of some malignant sorcerer it is to this romantic spot that the latest victim of that dreadful malady which constitutes the hereditary curse of the imperial hoube of hapsburg was secretly conveyed some three weeks ago the late count beasts cutting and cruel remark about Aus idiot archdukes arch dukes has received another notable illustration and lew would be able to recognize in the mental and physical which scarcely retains a vestige of humanity the gallant and chivalrous archduke Aach duke lepold who inherited the vast wealth of the house of este bora in 1836 ho has for the past twenty live years held a rank of commander in chief of tha engineer and sapper crops of the imperial forces besides possessing colonelcies colonel cies in the german ani russian armies tall and elegant with a handsome face and exceedingly winning man ner he was by far the most popular member of the emperors family with the solitary exception of archduke john ho was the most talented and clever prince of hit lice while his immense formund enabled 1 im to dispense generosity and munificent needless to add that it is epilepsy in its roost hideous form which has thus so darkly clouded the eventide of archduke leopolds well spent life stretched on a bed no longer pow essed of either the strength or sense to feed himself he has reached that bolh aonie state of idiocy which the french sa expressively describe as gati eine and his only occupation seems to be to gaze with a kind of imbecile stare agthe splendid port rale which painted ol 01 bim in the striking garb of a crusader which he wore at the carousel at the Hof burs here just years ago with the sole expect iod of the emperor himself almost every one archduke a and archduchesses arch duchesses alii the imperial family ot is sub in a greater or lesser degree to rita of epilepsy the good old archduke Aach duke albert uncle to his majesty and generalissimo of the luaces is a perfect martyr thereto the emperors youngest and favorite daughter princess valeric suffers from occasional fita arcas anke louis victa the youngest brother of the emperor has been rendered almost imbecile by the malady the late kaiser ferdinand was reduced to such a state ol 01 idiocy and disgusting bestiality by the disease that he was obliged to abdicate in in favor of his brother the late archduke Aach duke francis charles the latter however knowing that ho too was subject to the family refused to accept abo proffered crown and it on to bis son the present emperor even the poor little year old king of spain is reported to have inherited the malady from his mother who is an austrian arch duchess the sad fate of another archduchess the mad empress exempress ex of mexico is two well known to need more than a passing mention lier but perhaps the most serious case os all is that of the emperor n eldest nephew archduke francht Fran cit who in default of male esaue on alio part of crown prince rudolph will succeed to the imperial crown of austria but who is epileptic to have rendered it necessary on two occasions already to placa him under temporary restraint it is not however the hapsburg dynasty alono on which the hand of providence weighs so heavily indeed at the present there is scarcely a single royal in europe which is not with gome terrible of hereditary infirmity produced as a rule by too frequent infirmity intermarriages inter marriages between near relatives fur several hundred beare pait pa it which has re bulted in the impoverishment and vitiation of the blood heretical and treasonable though in may appear from a european to advance such a theory there is no doubt but the blood royal means tainted blood and that both from a moral and physical point of view the blood of the peasant claes a is of far more generous and healthy a quality than that ot the aristocracy and of royally |