Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — [?]OYA[?] PECULIARITIES. [ARTICLE]

[?]OYA[?] PECULIARITIES.

Shah Ash ref of Persia was /efthanded, and had a special saber toade to suit this peculiarity. Edward 111. was 6 feet 8 im/hee In height, and had a rough, shaggy beard that reached to his girdle. Claudius was an idiot. Hte eyes stared In a meaningless garze, and saliva dropped from his lips. Augustus was afraid of thunder and whenever a storm came on went to the darkest room In his palace. Charles I. wore a small, pointed beard, and thus set the fashion so often seen In Vandyck’s portraits. Henry VIII. was enormously fat and '•efly overheated. At the slightest exartion his face became purple. I‘hillppe I. of France was said to be the most amorous Klug that ever ruled over that amorous nation. Henry 111. of Germany had a com plexlon so dark that he might easily have been mistaken for a negro. The Czar Nicholas was said by it ? court physicians to havt suffered for many years from ingrowing nails. Vltellius, the Glutton, who for a short time ruled the Roman Empire !i“d • waist measure of 92

The Journal's reference to the “wool--rowing industrv” is cerfc ainiv a “stunner!”