Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1889 — An Unpopular King. [ARTICLE]

An Unpopular King.

Tho subjects of the King of the Netherlands are justly indignant at the conduct of their royal master. He was in a dying condition. The undertaker sailed at the palace and toek the measure of tho august personage. The doctors were unanimous that his Royal Highness was as good as dead. When a king dies in Europe it is a 3erious matter to all his subjects. In this case more than half of the well-to-do families invested largely In the heavy bereavement and mitigated affliction departments of the dry-goods stores. Immense quantities of black cloth were purchased in which to swaddle the public buildings. Just at this crisis the king got well mentally and physically. His faithfql subjects had to stop working the pu rap* handle of their emotions, and go down into their garments for money to buy fireworks to celebrate the recovery of their lord and master. The consequence is they are much , m ore depressed, financially and otherwise, than they would have been if the worst had happened. What that king needs is a couple of New York doctors like those who attended Bishop, the mind reader. They would have seen to it that the king did not come to again.—Texas Siftings.