Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-10-08
CHANCE To BUY
THRONE FOR
100000
AFRICAN RULER WOULD
RID HIMSELF OF CROWN
Royal Scepter, Right of Life
and Death, and Amazon
Guard Goes With Offer of.
African Potentate.
(By Henri Dubois

Paris, Oct. 5.-Here is a chance for
an American sHith ambitions. The
legal king, Yborshi, who reigns over
a small kingdom in Africa called
Abyosme, is offering for sale in the
ffench newspapers his crown, his
throne, his scepter, his territory, his
SUBJECTS, with rights of life and death
over them, and all the ap~purtenanees
of his royal splendor for the trifle of
a million francs.
His kingdom covers an area Of
about two hundred and fifty miles by
n hundred. The king, who governs
rather by terror han by love, also
possesses two hundred Amazons. who
VIII be thrown into the bargain. 1t is
presumed that he will keep his twen-
ty-eight wires.
His crown consists Of a sort Of
tiara, made Of three human skulls,
n his throne itself is raised on a
structure of skulls. tibers. femurs and
other human bones. The Yborshi an
nounces that he is divesting himself
OF regal panOpy because he wishes to
come and live in Paris and enjoy its
pleasures and an automobile.
-
a revolution is threatened in Cham
pagne-not in the delectable bever-
ages, but In the district where it is
grown. The wine growers OF Cham
payne, the centers of which are
Rheims and Epernay, are up in arms
ecaus wine growers in the sur
rounding districts also call their prod
uct champagne and sell it to the det-
riment Of the wine that Is actually
grown within the limits Of the old
province Of Champagne.
II is a question since the ancient
province of Champagne does not Dv-
ist n more whether the " of
F1h.trnC IFAarfanxH atv 100. 80 ...f. ]
sive right to the name. or whether IL
be applied generically TO all wins
mosseux' grown in this pa It Of
France, but that many brands of wine
not grown within the real limits IF
Champagne proper, but which unay lie
Just as good wine, are also called
champagne.
The Champagne Wine Groves
union have, at any rate, issued q pub
lie manifesto dealing upon IN gov
err ment to carry out the offic al de-
Inhalation of the Champagne country.
atd to prosecute all wine growers out
side that circle-which comprises the
present department OF the Nam and
the adjoining canton of Conde-en-Brie
who sell their wine as champagne.
They threaten if this is not done 10
refuse to pay their taxes
There is every possibility that the
walters of the Paris cafes WIZ shorty
go on strike again in support of their
cherished right 10 wear moustaches.
They struck last April in defense
OF the right, and also because the
cafe proprietors made them pay too
heavily for breakages of glass and
china. An agreement was arrived at.
and the walters let their -moustaches
grow, but lately a number of cafe
keepers have refused to engage any
but clean-sharen walters, n the
charge for breakagcs has crept up TO
the old level again.
During the last few days a hum
Der of indignation meetings have been
held by the men.
| have been round several cafes to-
day. and / fine both walters and pro-
prietors firm and %resolute. The
walters declare hat rather than sac
rifice their moustaches they will al
low Paris to hunger and thirst. The
proprietors declare that If they can
not get trained walters they will get
unframed ones. And so another walt
ers' wal appears to be looming in the
near future.