Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1897 — TOYAL PEOULIARITIES. [ARTICLE]

TOYAL PEOULIARITIES.

Shah Aahref of Persia was .efthanded, and bad a special saber made' to suit thia peculiarity. Edward 111. was (J feet B ini/boa In height, and bad a rough, shaggy beard that reached to his girdle. Claudius was an idiot. Ills eyas stared In a ipeanfngless gaae, and saliva dropped from bls Ups. Augustus was afraid of thunder and whenever a storm came on went to the darkest room tn his palace. Charles I. wore a small, pointed beard, and thus set the fashion eo often seen in Vnudyck’s portraits, Henry VIII. was enormously fat and rwdiy overheated. At the slightest exijrtion his face became purple. Philippe I, of France was said to lie the most amorous King that over ruled over that amorous nation. Henry HI, of Germany had u complexion so dark that he might easily have been mistaken tor a nogro. The Czar Nicholas was said by tie court physicians to havo suffered for many years from Ingrowing nails. Vltelllus, the Glutton, who for a short time ruled the Roman Empire, had a waist measure of 02 Inches. Tamerlane, the Tartar conqueror, bad a club foot. His real name was Tlmour Leuk, or Tlmour the Lacie. Edward I. was 0 feet 2 Inches high and It is said that the tips of his middle Angers extended below hl» bar*