, 1892-03-23
HTS ROYAL NIBS.
A MONARCH IN SAN FRANCISCO
WHO LIKES PEANUTS.
rEAe Imperial stomach Pays the
PenaIty---He Sleeps with HIS
Boots ON and Discards Suspend


PenaIty---He sleeps with HIS
Boots ON and DIscards suspend.
ers--Havtng a High Old Time.
SAN Francisco, Cal, March 23.-Kine
Mhbmora, of the Gilbert Islands, in the
South Pacific Islands, arrived here with
two personages of the royal court on the
schooner Tarawa last Tuesday and has
been having a high old time since. He
has been gorged with peanuts, lemonade
and cake until the good things of life
have palled on the royal stomach, and he
longs for the simple food Mrs Mhbmora
is accustomed to serve up under the cocoa
nut trees of Butaritari.
Somebody gave the king an iced lemon.
ade the other night ana the next day the
royal person suffered untold agony. He
tossed on his bed of pain and said things
that would have caused Mrs. Mhbmora to
blush had she heard them.
The royal gentleman has one peculiar
characteristic he sleeps with his boots on,
a fact that causes Grand Duke Jack, the
pilot, much annoyance. On Wednesday
OIlG-
fit of clothing, something he never pos
sessed before. In the royal palace at Bu-
taritari he is accustomed to hold leyees
clad III a simple garment-a shirt with
wide red stripes. The part Of the new
wardrobe that caught the kings fancy
most were the boots. They were
the first he had ever worn. and although he
had some difficulty in walking he was
prouder of them than a boy is OF his first
long trousers. When he sat on a bootblack
stand and saw the bright polish the artist
gave the boots his delight knew no bounds.
Since then it has been impossible to get the
king to remove the boots, although the
grand duke has employed every argument
to induce the king to part with them while
he sleeps. He was also presented with a
fifty=cent pair of fsuspenders, but these he
dlsdainfullY refuses to wear. A simple piece
of hay rope fastened around his body keeps
his trousers in place.
The king has been taken up hill and
down hill on the cable cars, and he has rid
den on the steam dummies to the beach.
all of which caused him to wonder greatly.
He does not. however, let people know
that he has discovered a greater country
than Butaritari. When shown the tall
buildings, Whisked up and down in eleva-
tors or exhibited ponderous machinery in
operation, he just grunts out his approval
IN an ot-hand manner as though every
Ghlng Dored MIN trlf1e and was nothing to
what can be seen in Butaritari. Only to
the grad duke does he confde his real i'm
pressions. That nobleman AYERS that King
Mhbmora is filled with amazement at the
things he has seen, and disgusted with the
road, the wharf and the frame house that
represent modern ideas in Butaritari.
They took him to tie Tivoli On Thurs
day night. The opera was 'sNanon.n He
was nightly Pleased With tie music, Che
the lights, the scenery and the pretty girls.
1t was at the Tivoli he drank the lemon
ade that caused the imperial stomach such
misery.
The king has mania for peanuts. At
every stand he comes across he insists upon
filling his pockets with the toothsome nuts.
The monarch had toothache on
Wednesday, but dentist extracted the
molar and will supply other teeth to take
the places of some that are missing.