, 1875-05-23

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who inaiots stale puns and idiotic paragraphs
On 4 long suffering public, and haunts news.
paper offices in the vain hope Of preventing
impartial criticism Of his laboriouB nonsense.
This is not tho PERKINS we mean. He is not
ours, and ne trust he never may be. II
would be great sin on our part that could
deserve such punishment We use the word
"our" in nationa1 sense. Americas PER
Kns is CHARLES ALLEN P, the member OF
our Spanish diplomatic service who married
the Princess Isabella DEA1oANrARA DE somo.
thing -or-other-else BOURBON, and thus became
the only American member Of ths Royal
BOURBON family. Tho political traits
Of that family-their learning moth
ing and forgetting nothing appear in
many American voters, hut the Inter
are but initators- Ths Rev. E1EAzEn
WILLIAMS used TO tickle his fancy with the
belief that ho was "the lost Dauphin," and
so Bourbon; but he wasn't. PERK1Na
alone is the real thing. He: married Bour-
bon and has become the father Of BourbonA
And at tho same time he has got in trouble,
and IS now adorning the inside Of Paris
jail. His wife is niece Of e1-Queen
IsABEr1A,-most Of the Bourbons have i" ex !"
before their titles, and the rest Of them
ought to- he, she, and the Queen, came
packing to Paris together. Then ho and she
lived on the Queen until tho latter got tired
OF it. Then they lived on condding land
lady. True to their race, they had not
learned to pay their bills or forgotten how to
sponge for living. When the landiady got
tired Of the royal beggars Who occupied her
best rooms, and said she would hare her rent,
they kindly allowed her to take it out Ly
standing godmother to tho Lest young BouE-
BON PERKINS hidalgo. Even this unimagina-
Bile honor, however, failed to content her
long. She decided upon harsh measures.
Not being abla to take her rent, she took
alas for American honor !-PEnKnas and put
him into jail In win he and his Royal
spousa told her that ISABELLA WEB going to
send them come money,-shich she was, but
her nominal husband applied to the courts
and stopped her. In vain did Mrs. PEKxnss
mistranslate letter in order to prove this to
the landlady. The hitter was inexorable. So
PKRm;s went to jail, where he will Etay some
five months longer in order to complote the
year for which he was sentenced- His wife
went to another house, but the irato
14ndlady "told On her." and she had
to. move. This process was repeated
until Spain bowed its neck again
to priestcrafs and Bourbon-craft.. Then AL
roxso and his cousin IsABEnnA skipped orer
the Pyraneea to Madrid, where the one got
crown and the other pension Mrs. PEP
KNs loves her husband, but docs not care to
return to Paris, because her cx-landlady has
just sued her and got Judgment for $4,000
francs, and decree, by virtue Of which the
Princess PxnKHa would stay in: jail for two
months If she should return to tho city where
her husband languishes. She therefore stays
in Madrid, whiting for him. This is eli the
story to date, PERKINS has been as un1ucly
as his countrywomen usually are when they
marry sham titles. He married real one,
but does not scem to have been the gamer.
And yet what could man expect who had
tho incredible temerity to make e1-Queen laA~
BELLA his aunt-in-law p