The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-11
sens Rngiash Islssory
 lpeckss Sun.l

There is . carpenter in McKeespors
 Pa, named Hyde, who claims to be a direct heir to the throne of England, dating back to the time of Queen Anne.
 He says he will not open up the case himself, but leave ii in his attorneys hands. who thinks he has a good case.
 H'm. just 90. Well, it may be. Tee PFlnce of Wales said, not long since. that
 he would like to be an editor if be were not to be king, and Queen Anne archi- lecture is ali the rage. 1t is likely, hos ever, that Hyde has waited most too
 long. If he had started tn several hun ored years ago. say about the time the Chevalier St. George by night of sue cession should have had the throne. but vas disbarred on account of the act of parliament prohibiting Catholics frem oc- cupying the same, his show would have
 oeen gosd. But he vaspt born then
 True enough. Then, if his sreat-greai. great, etc, grandpa had got n his work at the night time, it might have been O
 K. As it stands now, it will be . hard Joo to oust the present tenants, and can
 scarcely be done while good old Queen
 Victoria live& Probably Hyde is smart enough to see this fact, but there's no harm in reminding him of it.
 The reader must not imagine, from reading the above, that any of .he Sss fsrce are well up in English history. nte the contrary. If there is anything
 se don know better than another. ii IS back number British history, and any statistics relating thereto that have ap- Peared, or may hereafter appear, can be set down as copied from a guide book or stolen bodily las in this easel from some other paper. Of course, there are certain things that everybody knows about. such as Richard IIl's victory at Waterloo. when he made the duke of Wellinpton take water (instead of brandy and call out for A horse horse iii you can't bring me a horse, send on a bicvcle,. and the execution of the two princes of Bismarck in the shot-tower of Edinburgh town and the burial of Sir John Falstsff affer the bloody battle of Culloden. about which Bret Hare wrote such stirring verses commencing And the field of Iuiioden rushes red on my sight," and me great naval victory of Trafalgar at the battle of Nelson, when Casabianca stood so nobly at his post on the Great Eastern while she was sinking from the effects of the gouging received below water-l.ne from the ram Merrimac: also how General Marmion urged Stanley on to cross the Hellespont when there was a Aades of Chippewa river rise, in order to tell General Mcclellan 10 fortify and wait tor reinforcements, and SO on. These matters are all SO firmly fixed in the minos of history students when young that after they grow up they do not readily forget them. But when it comes to keeping track of all the kings, queens. jacks ana knaves of old England. we pass, and so do all editois who are re- quired, in deference to American senti- ment, to have a watch over revised ,es,a- ments and bibles, keep the run of the baseball, the wheat market, Langtry and Ceohart, dudes, donation partiesJ and a | thousand other things interesting to the | public. And plumbers.
 All the same, if Hyde is entitled to the | throne and three hundred million dollars back pay, he ought to have bot. He would wish he was back in Pennsylvania showing the jack-plane or rakipg in the | jackpot, for 1t has been handed down by | Ben Franklin or Confu i1s that fun easy lies the head that wears a crown" Hence the origin of scalping by Indians and curb-stoae brokers.