Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-11-25
ROYAL BACK NUMBERS.
THE KINGS UNcRoWNED, UNKNoNfi
AND UNHoNoRED.

beats All Claiming Thrones--A King
Who Is Waiter Genuine Blue Blood
in Hard Luck--An American King.
A full list of royal and imperial pretend
ers would include all sorts of people in all
sorts Of society, from the retired and
wealthy nobleman, such as the Comte dc
Paris, to Orclie, the self styled king OF
Araucania, who is sort Of genteel dead
beat, and francesca, the titular king OF
Armenia, whose royal predecessor was a
waiter in Milan, who himself pursues the
same honest, If not ldngly, occupation in a
restaurant at Versailles As a rule nearly
every king nowadays outside Of the dark
est part OF the Dark Continent has a snug
sum to his credit in English or American
securities, so that ia the event Of being put
out Of a job he may have the wherewithal
70 keep the wolf Of poverty from the door.
The Conte de Paris Bourbon pretender
TO the throne Of France, and now an exile,
is worth about two millions of dollars.
The bulk Of bis fortune is in British con
soils, and he also draws interest on United
States bonds
Prince jerome Napoleon, the leading
representative of the imperial house Of
Bonaparte, lives in luxurious exile at
Prangins, Switzerland He has a splendid
residence there, and owns among his treas
ures various relics Of the Bonaparte fam
lily, including an Egyptian saber which the
great Napoleon carried in the first Of his
Italian campaigns. Prince Napoleon is
wealthy and ambitious The Bonapartes
as a rule are not in good financial circum-
stances, and the purse of Prince Jerome is
taxed TO keep his friends and relatives
from need.
REAL PRETENDERs.
The ex-queen Of Spain, Isabella, takes
life comfortably, even luxuriously resid-
ing in fashionable style in Paris, with oc-
caslonal trips to Nice and Boulogne
Italy has n host Of prctenders deprived
of their toy crowns by the union of the
italian peninsula. or these the house Of
Tuscany is the most fortunate, as Austria
takes care of them, and the Archduke
Francis Salvador has recently married the
flower of the imperial family, the Arch
duchess Valerie. The heir of Bombas
crown Of Naples Is aquiet harmless young
man, strictly devoted to religion, and with
out any apparent design upon his ancestral
dominions Indeed the deposed italian
princes generally acquiesce in their fate, as
hopeless Of any change. ALL without ex-
ception, are fairly well provided for
Dom Pedro, the deposed emperor Of the
Brazils, is the most unhappy of ex-rulers.
The death Of his wife was a terrible blow
TO him, and he hungers to be permitted to
10 back to Brazil to die As he has never
formally renowned his claim to the crown
he can fairly be called "a pretender. Dom
Pedro is far from wealthy While in cir
cumstnnces that should dictate close econ
omy, he is 80 tender hearted that he hest
tates to dismiss the retiuue that is eating
M his substance, and consequently he
grows poorer every day 1t would not be
surprising should the old gentleman be
compelled TO accept the generosity of re-
publican Brazil
AN AMERICAN KING.
Few have heard of tlat other and rather
amusing American pretender, resident in
pnris, Orelie |, king of the Araucanians
Orelie Is n Frenchman. n cbeap LAWYER.
with taste for adventure. His travels
brought him TO Chill in South America.
There he made his way by accident or de-
siun to a remote section of the reDublic
where the Araucanian Indians have for
apes maintained their independence He
lived amonu these Indiana and won their
good will to such a decree that the chief
Trims elected him King Of Araucaufa. and
he was formally crowned with that title.
AS King Orelie led the Araucanians in
forays, more or less successful against
their Gillian neighbors
When he got tired OF the masquerade,
which involved some peril. MS the Chilians
followed the new king up sharply. he
started for the coast, reaching it by the
way of Peru, and returned to Paris. Here
he still calls himself king Of Araucania,
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