Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-25
oRELIE-ANTOINE I.
. Par Ia Grace de Dteu ct la polonte
des Indterls de Extreme Sud
du Continent Anleitcdfn.
RoI D'ARAUCANIE & DE PATAGoNIE,
a Cous, presents & q Tenir. Saluu
Manufactured a Lot of Mobiles,

Having formed his Cabinet, the monarch
found that the Indians of his mythical
kingdom must have an aristocracy to sup
port his throne, and to the creation of these
patricians the "Commendatore" set to work
with the most praiseworthy zeal. A con-
venient blank was let Tor the titles, so that
the ambitious nouveaux riches could be
created dukes, comtes, vicomtes and barons
at a scale graduated by the height up the
social ladder which the buyers wished to
climb. There was, of course, large reduc-
ton for cash, for the "Commendatore, with
true commercial instinct, was always open
to reason when he saw scoin down."
The number of those manufactured mobiles
who are still struttiug about continental
towns is positively startling-for these
chevaliers d'industries fully appreciated
the value of having real document to show
to the inquisitive minor officials with whom
they came into contact. The American
millionaire, who is ready to purchase nus
band with a title for his daughter, ought to
be certain that he has the genuine ''hall
marked" article, and not one OF these "alu-
minum" Patagonian mobiles vino are roam
ing about with missions like that of the
"roaring lion" of the scriptures.
Fixing Up an Embassy.
The Secretary of the Treasury, who be-
lieved that there was money to be made by
blooming" Orelie-Antoine, managed to get
hold of large room on the, first floor in a
fashionable quarter of Paris. A rich car
pet manufacturer covered the floor with a
superb product of his looms, and was
straight off created a duke by ''Sa Majestic, -
as Orslle-A Antoine was invariably styled. The
introduction of the commercial element
brought few 6nanciers to see who was at
the place dubbed the "Patagonian En-
bassy," where the. King and his heteroge-
nous court assembled.
The business of the evening opened
with the introduction of banker to the
King who received him with all that cere-
monial formality and dignity which the
would-be potentate never Jailed to assume.
After desultory conversation on a variety
of subjects affecting the kingdom in whose
welfare Orelie-Antoine was so deeply inter-
ested, the meeting adjourned and the cour-
tiers all vent home in an humble omnibus.
End of the Strange Career.
The subsequent lie of the would-be King
of Patagonia, in London, was ludicrous in
the extreme. The commendatore Who made
all the arrangements had to shift Ellis
Majesty" almost every week into new lodg-
ings, for the landladIes of Bayswater and
Islington were not to be ''caught with chaff''
like barren titles, but cut the monarch
adrift as soon as they found his board bills
getting into arrears. The deluded man
moved from one squalid lodging to another,
with dignity and calm that even Cresus
in his deepest mis- prtune might have
envied, and at last things got so bad with
the batch of Araucanian courtiers and
their luckless sovereign. that a French
benevolent society had to send them back to
Paris TO save them from starvation here.
The ruined monarch, who was apparently
too good for this unappreciative world,
vainly tried to secure an appointment as a
street lamplighter from the municipal
Council of the "gay capital, but in these
degenerate days even broken down Kings
are at q discount there, and the would be
monarch Of Arsucania and Patzgonia
ended his checkered career on an hospital
bed, mourntully exclaiming with his last
breath: "Ahi What colonies France haa
refused" A monarch of ancient history
gained kingdom by the mere neighing Of
his steed, and poor Orelie-Antoine, 1t he
failed to win q kingdom seenis-.o have been
a man whose philosophy and dignity in ad-
versity showed him to have been at least
worthy Of . better fate. NAcLEoD.