The Manitowoc Pilot

Princes on the Downward Grade.
Italian princes are decidedly on the downward grade. Of Prince Borghese's bankruptcy I have already spoken. He is at the present moment in an Austrian lunatic asylum. Prince Odescalchi has likewise experienced such heavy losses in real-estate speculations that in order to make both ends meet he has actually been forced to fit up the ground floor of his superb palace at Rome as a wineroom, where Hungarian wines are sold, both wholesale and retail, by beautiful Hungarian girls arrayed in their national dress.
Another Prince Odescalchi, the brother of the one above referred to, has started a kind of Coney Island at Ladispoli, which bids fair to prove a great financial success. Prince Sciarra of the great Colonna family has attempted to eke out a subsistence by means of a somewhat scurrilous newspaper, which has recently come to grief and landed him in the bankruptcy court.
These are only a few of the many members of the old patrician families of Rome who have fallen from their high estate —N. Y. Recorder.