Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va) 1886-1890, 1890-01-02
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;vea,ly Drag Through Life.
Tie recent death Of the king of Portu-
cal reminds one that the cmperors and
kings Of this earth are. taking them 81!
round. very unhealthy and unhappy
Sc. Of people. Such Il thing as jolly
monarch. with good digestion, is
scarcely 70 be found. The car suffers
horribly from his nerves, and is at times
hvpochondriacal: the empress is as much
tortured by nerves as her husband, and
has long periods Of intense prostration.
Thecmrarorof Austria is healthy enough,
but he IS a sad man, for the empress has
been during the last ten years a martyr
to scia,ica an rheumatic feyers, and
her mind has been affected to the extent
Of making her capricious. historical and
melancholy.
She belongs to that Wi.tels5ach fam
ilv, in whose blood there is a faint of in
sanity, which broke out in King Louis
of Bavaria, in the present King Otto and
in the late Crown Prince Rudolph OF
Austria The king of Wurtemburg. too
is more than half crazy, and King Milan
of Scrvia must be added to the list of
sovereigns whom nervosity renders well
nigh irresponsible for their actions. In
KIM Milan's case. as i'll the cars and
the sultan's, the fear OF assassination has
been the main determining cause Of
mental disorder. The predecessors of
all three were murdered, and the world
does not hold three more wretched, night
mare haunted men than the car, the
Sultan Abdul Hamid and King Milan
The German emperor has some very
distressing physical ailments. He has
an impotent left hand, and lie suffers
from periodical suppurations of the left
car. which sometimes make him frantic
with pain and afterwards dizzy from
sleeplessness. The king Of Spain is a
baby, but his father, Alfonso NIL,
ruined his constitution By excuses of all
kinds and during the last year of his
life could be kept going only By cham
payne and opiates. The king Of Holland
offers another example of a ruined con-
slitution, but the process of destruction
took longer with him than with Alfonso,
for lie had a stronger constitution to
start with. Since his second marriage,
however, the king of Holland has been
an irritable invalid, admirably attended,
indeed. by his young wife, but always
ailing, suffering, grumbling, and now he
has sunk into dotagc. The king of Italy
suffers from a gastric arrangement,
brought on, as his doctors say, by too
much smoking of rank tobacco of Vir-
ginia. and he has to diet himself with
milk, light broth and stewed fruits.
The queen of England and the kings
of Sweden. Denmark, Roumania, Greece
and Belgium are the Only soyereigns
who can be said to enjoy the blessings
of the sound mind in the sound body.
Leopold of Belgium, however, is lame,
and King Charles of Roumania, though
healthy himself, has been made very
miserable by the nervous malady of his
wife. Queen Elizabeth, who for long
time was haunted by Authorizations
which brought her to theverge Of in
sanity. Altogether, it will be seen that
in the imperial and royal families there
are very few persons whom-all politi-
cal risks apart-an insurance company's
physician would certify as having first
class lives. Berlin Cor. New York Post.