Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-11-30
PIoMY RULERS.
: Underlined Monarcha a, a.,..


Archouke Francis Ferdinand Of An.
: stria, who has just passed throu0h th;.
: country on his way back from Chin.
: ana Japan to Europe. presents an nm
usually good example of Euronaan
royaity' as Tar as physique is con-
. cerned, writes the Marquis de Fonte.
noy. "nen L say unusually mean
that there are few of his class as we'll
SET up as ne, the major portion of the
Personages OF blood royal being under
: SIZED ana defective in stature. esne.
claiiy those OF southern Europe. Thus
hlng humbert of Italy is frail and
SNORT whlie his son and heir. the
> prince OF Naples, is even less
than hve feet in height and
Is slight in proportion. The kino
OF PORTUGAL and his brother are
ootn stumPy and fat, while tho
late KING Alfonso resembled the other
members of his family, excepting Don
'tarios, In being understood to an in
Die degree. He was fully copn;.
zan1 OF the puny character of his an
pearance and sought to improve it by
: every means in his power, includino
paooing, nigh heels, ETC.; but all with.
= OUT avalI. Don Antonio, the husband
OF frlncess Eulalie, is not Spaniard.
but frenchman by birth, his father
the late Due de Montpensier. hav;no
been a son OF King Louis Philippe of
France All the members of the Brit
ISM royal family are extremely short
4 especially the queen, who is not much
taller than ten-year-old girl and is
becoming with increasing years almost
as broad as she is long. The only two
princes of Great Britain who are of
the average British stature are the
duke OF Cambridge and the duke of
Cumberland.
The members of the Dutch roval
family are, like those of England, alb
orevlated In stature, and so. too, is the
present generation of the Hohenzol-
Terms, with the solitary exception of
Prince Albert, the regent of Bruins
WICK, who is as gigantic as those Anaks
OF modern royalty, the princes of the
relgning house of Sweden Perhaps it
is due to the Pyreneau peasant blood
In their veins, derived from their an
cestor, the. father of Field Marshal
Bernadotte, that they are of such mag
innocent physique, and the same may
be said of the car and of certain of
the Russian grand dukes whose blood
has been maintained in a healthy con-
-dltlon by the frequent marriages with
women of the humblest class of So
-ciety, the Empress Catharine having
been little better than a mere camp
follower. Alexander III. is close upon
six feet three in height. This, at any
rate, is the measurement recorded
against that wonderful column in
the Danish cathedral of Roes-
kilde, the resting place of the
ancient kings of Denmark. Against
this column a number of monarchs
have been measured and their height
recorded. Conspicuous among them
are Peter, the Great, who measured
six feet ten. Only one other of the
sovereigns was taller and that was
King Christian 1. of Denmark, who,
according to this authority, was just
trifle over seven feet. The present
King Christian of Denmark measures
close upon six feet. while his grandson,
Prince George of Greece. who visited
this country a couple of years ago,
stands six feet two in his stockings.
The tallest of all the royal ladies of
Europe is assuredly the good-natured,
unconventional and somewhat unin-
tellectual crQY1 princess of Denmark,
DAdaugh NE late king of Sweden,
Wiz hEYsht is the same as that of her
father-in-law, King Christian, a gigan-
tic stature for a woman. Her children
show tendency to follow her in this
respect, ,and her sons compare favora-
bly, in height with that of their cou.
sins, the sons of King Oscar, every one
of whom is exceedingly tall.-Chicago