The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1895-12-28
KING 0TTO'S CRAZY FRANKS
Little Bavaria's Monarch About
to Be Dethroned.
SEVERAL KINDS OF A MANIAC
Regent Luitpold Will Take the
Crown, But Bavarians Love
Their Insane Ruler.
SEVERAL KINDS OF A MANIAl
New York journal.


Otto, the oniomaniac is TO be deposet
from the Bavarian throne, and Luitpold
the regent, is 10 wear the crown and rid,
In the royal carriage.
Politically TINS is not very important
news, except to the German government
but the loss OF a mad monarch is lcss
10 the great dime mu scum or cont temporary
history. For Otto ha been the strangest
figure in the European Chamber OF Hor
rors since the Geath of his brother. Fo
painful grotcsqueness ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
herbtvorous was commonplace compared
to Otto.
Nest crazy kings go in for enc specia
line OF unreas onableness, but this one
has all the eccentr;cities that anybody
else ever cultivated, and adds to them
little original whinIsioaiities OF his own
The farmer. ut Schcuack, n. Y, who used
to nail up his bootiaoes instead OF tying
them in d knot, and The Bridgeport woman
who went to bed every night with flour
paste in her mouth because she once used
proTaue language In her sleep-these peo-
Pile seemed Ito their neighbors TO be a
trifle eccentrn.- But King Quo has done
more wonderful things than either OF them.
HE is DEGENERATE.
According to the report OF a medical
commission, the monarch exhibits u truly
royal catalogue oil degenerate symptoms.
lie is a mcgaiornaniac, lima ginning himself
possessed Oh iiniitlrss power; IL ciaustrL-
maniac, dreading closed doors or confined
spaces: an oniomaniac, longing to buy
everything he sees. an iophobiac- fearing
poison in anything he eats or drinks: IA
cremnophobiac, trembling al the thought
of an abyss, avoiding even crack in the
flooring; a ncsophobiac, flying from the
signt or thought OF iDvaiids or people
bearing scars; u tricophcbiac, ioathins the
texture OF hair, and connecting the sight
OF hanging tresses with the idea OF snakes.
And the experts terminate this forn-d-
able list with the statement that at least
one kind of mania has spared the richly
afflicted sovcreign-.leI Is not rupophobiac,
or hater OF dirt. On the contrary, all forms
of uncleanincss, from smutchcs on the
end of his nose to Cin1ers in his eyes, are
source of joy to him. Moreover, he
suffers from cOprolia, the love OF unpicas-
ant words, and writes on his own shirt
front the mos vulgar epithcts in the
Bavar an dialect.
But a king may be slovenly with some
measure of impuuily. Otto had 1858 suits
of broadClolh every year for five years at Il
cost of nearly 1000 marks year After
that his custodians forced him 10 accept
ciu, hing that had been renovated by the
cleaners. and To wear each suit dozen
times or more, needless of his bitter pro-
ltStS against btiuS VI pitds-
nre of trying on seven new suits week.
Ii was not that he wanted clean clothes
10 wear, bat new clothes TO soil. He loved
10 pour pea soup down the front of his
waistcuat and stick q jannty sardine in
his buttonhole.
These fac,s are amazing enough when
they are recited in plain language, but
when a German alienist clothes them in
he vcrbiage of science the listener rubs
a IL ir tl-n IipA In, lori
Through it all the Bavarians love their
ing-sorrowfully. indeed, as one loves a
,ick child, but with the same affection
,te pity they showed for his brother Lud-
wig. The great Bavarian festival is still
he annual celebration OF the royal house
IF Wittelsbach.
LIKES HIS TITLES.
or King Otto's distorted sense OF his own
Importance the most extraordinary effect
s his delight in hearing his titles emu
nerated. For the first year OF his confine-
neDt he used TO ring his bell at frequent
intervals in order that he might hear the
servants ask 1.-THE pleasure OF his ma iesty.''
alter, in the progress of this phase Of his
nalady, it became necessary for the satis-
action of his vanity that he should hear
Ill the soDorous items of his identity re-
,eated time after time, hour after hour.
For long time past groom ofthechamber.
and bra zen -throated as n
Bremen waterman, has intoned the roll:
.'Your Royal Majesty Otto Wilhelm Luit-
,o.d Adalbert Waldemar, King of Bavaria,
'fa'zsraf Of the Rhine. Herzog OF Bavaria,
II Franken and Of Suabia.''
And out Of this man, with all these
'ompous titles, the light has gone. He is
tito as he might be Jocko. 1t is brute,
'roDe of instinct, upright of carriage still
" mere habit of his joints and muscles.
A few years ago the poor king used TO try
o Fly, and was quite happy poised upon
footstool, which seemed to him a lofty
'innaclc. spreading his heavy and ini-
'cnnate arms in vain attempts to soar
loft.
The kings periods or lethargy are fire.
ucnt, and during these intervals his
orpor is so deathlike that his attendants
re sometimes In doubt as to whether or |
ot he is still living. When he RECEIVERS |
nina ton he abandons himself for two or |
hree days TO excessive smoking, consun.
lg as many as a hundred cigarettes n |
lay. And in his habits as a smoker Otto |
5 not less whimsical than in other respects |
lis matches stand in n large silver box, |
ixcd upon a tray as large around as a |
icycle wheel. The box holds not less |
han two or three. hundred matches. The |
ing ignites them. all each time he lights
cigarette. With infantile perversity he |