The Czar Nicholas

E. C. (renville Mimay ha.s latei v contributed to the 8wis8 Times somt; entlrely personal remíniscences of th Czar Nicholas. Qf, lus mental habita and temperament he aays: "He was a man of. ha.sty temper, but very full of genera impulses. ÉaVing on sou ie occasions used liarsh language tooneof bis Colonels, and learning that the officer had taken the rebuke to heart, the Car orttered a review, and publiclv embmcM him at the bèad of his regiment. A kind man, too, who oould unbend at times. One lsl of April, a lady, who told me the story herself, waS sñrprised by In sdïvaht abriïptly announcing the Ciar. It was su earlv in the morning that she thought it was some joke of her sisters in connection with the dav, so she lepliedaughingly, 'Teil the Czar to wait,' and went on slpping her tea. l'n-scntly she lookfd upaain, liowevt-r. and saw the servant standing aghast near the door, which was still wide open, and behinditin caoqueand )lume was the statelv ligure of the Kmperor. lle had come to bring her gootl news of her son, who was nbroad. and had been ill. He wa.s nol tolerant, however, of ntentional disrespect, and had hut a moilitied appreciation of a joke. A general, who was polieemaster at Si. Petersburg lor a short time, found thin out to his coirt. The general was conüiderèd R wr tupid man, and was the ('zar's favorite hutt, so his Majesty was plea,sed one night at a court hall tosend him off in search of a thief who had stolen a colossal statue of I'tter the Great. The Polieemaster, tintling this statue in its usual pla as any oneelse would have expeoted, telt moTtJfied at the lang!) raised against him, anti de termmed to be reveuged in his own way. Shortly afterwartl, tberefore, he announced u his imperial master while at the theiitre, that the Winter Palace was on flre. The Czar rose hastily to wïtness the conflagration, umi on flnding thnt the Poll ceraastep. had presumèd to retalíate on lus august sHf, gent hini to rellect on lm indiscretion in Slberia. Finally, he was not a faitlifnl huaband, luit he was fond of his wife and very jealoua. Her Majesty was uuite awart of tliis, and unfortunatcly vcrv nüschievous. Whenever, therefore, she wirthetl to f.'('t i'id of an ollicer who displeased her, slie eoftunaaded him to dance witli lier, and so snre as slie did so he Wás sent to tlie Cuicasiis. Thfl Car s personal habita wen soldierlv and Himple. lie ate and drank witli extreme moderütion, and he Hlept in his uniform on a tent bed in his stud. Witïl onlya military cloak U) cover hiiii. He allowed his sou, the present JOinpcior, L40,000 a inonth wliile tmveling abroad; the Empresa s[ent money m lavishly that lier expense for one. night that she haltel at Hanovcr cxcccdVd i.i.'"(.H). II gave, too, largely, hut his personal wants must luivn eost little indeed.