A Circus Riding Empress

It is well known tliat the Empress of Austria possesses the most magniticent jewelry of any crowned head in Europe, which, however, she scarcoly ever wears, and whenever sho doos hor jewels are invarlably made either in the form of a jockey 's hat or a horseshoe. There is an amusing story toldof one of tlielittle arehduchesscs of Austria who was taken to a circus. Notliing amazed her and vory little pleased her. On her return home the Emperor asked how slie had enjoyed the performance. "Oh: very well," the young lady replied, "only mamma does evurything the circus woman did and a great deal better; why, I have seen her jump through sixhoops. " It appears tliat this is really true, and that the Empress has i. more than one occasion given a strictly private entertainment to her intimates, in which she has surprised them with feats maling thoso of the most skillecl circus riders. Her Mfejesty started in Ufe with a doublé Uitention - first, of proving tliat slio W8Í liot only the most iicautifiil woman in liurope, but the most ecccntric: an I, second, tliat slie was ths finest horsi'woman the world lias ever geen. The Emperoi adores tlie Empress, but slie scarcely ever allows liim to be in her comDanv. and roes her own way -