Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — A Hindoo Queen. [ARTICLE]

A Hindoo Queen.

Probably the smallest monarch in the world reigns over the Hindoo vassal state of Bophal, and ’governs a people of more than 1,000,000 souls. This dwarf is a woman, Djrhan-Begum by name; but although she is about 50 years old, she does not appear larger than a child of 10. Her diminutive size does not prevent her, however, from holding the reigns of government with a firfia hand, and in her realm quiet aud order are supreme.