Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1891 — BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRAZIL’S PRESIDENT.

Man Del Deodoro Da Fontaca la the Chief Executive of the New Republic. Those who have watched the progress of Brazil will be interested in theportrait of the new President, which is here given. The last of the Bourbons, says theChicago Graphic, is succeeded by the'

scion of a family no less ancient, theFonsecas dating back to the thirteenth century, as a powerful Spanish house, and three centuries farther as Spanish nobles. A Fonseca was bishop and. spiritual adviser of King Ferdinand in the days of Columbus, anil now after four hundred years his descendant is the ruler of a great republic, whose" discovery was almost thwarted by the counsels of the Bishop, who saw in Columbus’ theories nothing but the' illusions of a visionary.

MANUEL DEODORO DA FONSECA.