The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-01-09

with him his line, AS his successor he
nominated his cousin, Theodore no
manoff, the great-grandson OF the ad-
venturer Kobyla Then began strug-
gle between the various claimants Tor
the Russian throne. The invasion OF
| Poles, Swedes and Tartars carrying
sword and fire into the distracted realm
gave the Romanoffs their opportunity
Freeing Russia of these enemies, they
established themselves on the throne or
the country, which their ancestor had
entered as an outcast a century or So
before
The last century has stories oil the
making of monarchs every whit as ro-
mantle as those of the ages of chiValry
A tablet on little, tumble-doWn
house in one of the dingiest stfeets OF
Pau declares the building to be the
birthplace of Jean Baptiste jules Ber-
nadotte. who became king of Sweden.
The elder Bernadotte was a lawyer III d
small way of business, but instead OF
following his fathers profession, the
son enlisted in the French army. Al
ter nine years service, he was only
sergeant; but the revolution and It's
wars gave him his opportunity lie
rose rapidly, and Napoleon, though
disliking him, made Bernadotte mar
shall, and in 1906 Prince of Ponte Corvo.
Then Bernadotte was nominated heir to
childless Charles VII. of Sweden. TO
his acceptance of this Napoleon was Dit
terly opposed.
ROYALTIES OF PLEBEIAN DE-
SCENT
What" exclaimed Bernadotte, with
fine sarcasm, to the emperor, Will you
make me greater than yourself by COM
polling me to refuse CROWN?
$50" said Napoleon, "our fates must
be accomplished
And in this case they transformed the
Pau attorneys son into a king and
founder of the royal house of Sweden.
OF even more pieheian descent than
King Oscar is Alexander of SerVia.
That monarch is merely three genera
lions removed from the sWineherd.
The Servian Cromwell, or William Tell,
who rose to deliver his country from
Turkish misrule, was Michael Obreno-
witch. Leaving his pigs to feed and
tend themselves, he headed his coun-
trymen, who rewarded his success by
electing him Prince of Servia. On his
death, in 1858, he was succeeded by the
late ex-King Milan, who handed over
the crown to his son in 1889, OF Eng
lish sovereigns, Queen Mary II. and
Queen Anne We're the granddaughters
Of a domestic servant While he was
Duke of York, James TT. married Anne
Hyde, the daughter of Lord Clarendon.
and the two queens were the children of
the union. AS briefless barrister,
Lord Chancellor Clarendon had married
a housemaid, and her grandchildren sat
on the British throne.
Victor Emmanuel offered the tributa-
ry crown of Sicily to Garibaldi, but the
Did sailor refused to exchange his red
shirt for the purple robe. The founder
Of the Ming dynasty of China was a
Buddhist priest, the son of a Chinese
potter After occupying the Celestial
throne for three centuries, the Mings
we're overthrown and succeeded by the
Manchus of Tartar free booting origin. |
They have been royal for only three
years. But the imperial house |
If Turkey has absolutely Authentic de-
cent from Mohammed, the long line be- |
ng broken from $40 A. d. With excep-
ions, such as that of the Mikado, Dis |
'aeli was right in declaring that "the
most powerful people in the world, male |
md female, few years back, were adj |
yenturers, exiles and demireps. - |
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