Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1882 — Hour Dom Pedro Rides. [ARTICLE]

Hour Dom Pedro Rides.

Hark! Do you hear that racket? Clear the track! Get out of the way there! Here comes a cavalcade that won’t stop for anything. Don’t stop to look until you have dodged into the shelter of a doorway, but when you are safe you will see—first, a half-dozen horse guards with drawn sabers flashing in the sun; then a couple of mounted chamberlains; then an old black coach drawn by six brass-mounted mules (harness brass-mounted), ridden by postillions, two gaudy footmen standing at the back of the “trapinside tlie carriage sits a white-haired, white-bearded, handsome man in military costume, his kindly face beaming on the startled people who had so hastily taken shelter. When the coach and the company of cavalry following it have passed with all the speed that mules, and yellow mules at that, are capable of, I draw a sigh of relief. I have seen this turnout almost every day since I have been in Rio, but you will probably have to be informed that it was His Majesty Dom Pedro EL, “Constitutional Emperor and Perpetual Defender of Brazil,” who had just passed. Although Dom Pedro is rather more progressive-minded than most of his countrymen, he still retains an affected display of pomp and power which he really does not possess.— Cor. Norristown Herald.