The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-25

same as aDrOa'l. lie never was at pSaco with the officers of his court, he kept his family in a continual turmoil, and when his death finally came, in the twenty first year of his reign, h s Kingdom deemed themselves well rid of their
 brilliantly mad" monarch.
 While Frederick William, father of Frederick the Great, can not be said to
 have been a confirmed lunatic. he was
 undoubtedly of deformed mind. This was apparent in the closing years of his life. He became cynical and hypochon- driacal. His mnd ran almost contin- ually on the subject of religion, and he forbade his family to converse on any other topic. He seemed to enjoy nothing else so well as punishing his children. The young Prince and his eldest sister were fiogged upon the slightest provocat on. They were compelled to eat and drink unwholesome or nauseous articles, and the King frequently afforded himself diversion by splitting in their dishes while at table His brutality toward the youthful Frederick at length arrived at such pitch that one morning he seized him by the collar as he entered his bed chamber, and beat him with his cane in the cruelest manner until forced to de- sist from sheer exhaustion. The Prin- cess, too, did not escape corporal pun ishment. and the old tyrant often struck her with his crutch, upon one occasion knocking her down and trampling her under foot. These Irregularities were continued for several years, ending only with the death of Frederick Will; Tam, in 1740.
 In more recent times the case of George ILL is too familiar to all readers to require any explanation. In India the royal dynasty has become so weakened that they may be denominated race of imbecile princes. This deformity of mind is sometimes natural and sometimes is produced by dissipation. As an example we may cite the experience of an English Elm bassador to one of the Indian courts. On his arrival at the palace of the through long suite of magnificent apartments, lined by officers clad in the grandest apparel, to sort of reception room of still more costly description than those he had already traversed. In a short time two persons of high rank entered, and were followed by number of slaves bearing litter covered with rich silks and cashmere shawls of inn mense value.
 On the couch reposed the King-a mere human form, devoid of the power of motion. The litter was deposited on the floor, and one of the officers, rais- ing the head of the apparently lifeless Prince and replacing his lolling tongue in his mouth, poured few drops of black liquid down his throat. After this operation three or four times the medicine began to take effect, and the King began to evince consciousness. He raised himself into a sitting posture, and, after looking about for some minutes, was ready to receive the fore gn Ambassador and transact business. The Englishman afterward learned that the monarch was a victim of the terrible opium habit, and that for twenty hours out of every twenty-four he was as helpless as when he had been carried into the reception room. The case of King Theebaw is of such recent date that it is familiar to all. The mania of this King was in the direction of cruelty. He put all his relatives to death in order to insure his own stability on the throne. He buried hundreds of his subjects alive in order to appease certain irritated spirits that him with affliction. Five hundred victims were at one time, un- der his decree. offered as propitiary to the gods. Yet, during the perpetration of these outrages, the people were too week to rebel against their lunatic mon- arch, and suffered their pa ngs of terror in silent despair. Glenn r. Wagner, CD Cincinnati Enquirer.