Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — It Hardly Filled the Bill. [ARTICLE]

It Hardly Filled the Bill.

The deposed King of Burmah, King Thebaw, was asked by a firm of cigarmakers to write them a testimonial in favor of a certain brand of cigars. His ex-majesty was pretty hard up at the time, and the testimonial meant a large “consideration,” so he loosed the floodgates of his eloquence to this effect: “My late father, the Royal Mindom, Min, the Golden-Footed Lord of the White Elephant, Master of the Thousand Umbrellas, Governor of the Sun, the Moon and the Universe and Master of the Royal Peacocks, smoked, the whilst meditating upon the pun-, ishment to be dealt out to the mudeating and frog-drowned Inhabitants of England. But I, in the madness of youth—l was tempted to smoke the vile trash sent me 'from San Francisco—hnd I fell. Thebaw, formerly King.”