Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — That Odious Old Shah. [ARTICLE]

That Odious Old Shah.

The shah gave an infinity of trouble at Vienna. The London Truth says th t after the first state dinner he suddenly started from his seat at the table and rushed out of tho room, and tho Archduchess Elizabeth, who represented the empress, had literally to chase him, in order that they might enter the saloon together at the head of the guests. At tho Schonbrunn Menagerie the kitig of kings diverted himself by knocking at the more savage : ninials with a stick, which threw them into transports of fury, uinlat the imperial Inmjuet he kept the Emperor waiting for twenty minutes. On the last evening of his stay the Persian minister gave a reception and supper, but to tho horror of the trembling diplomatist thb shah positivel.v refused to see any of the guests, insisting on taking his meal apart, in the company of Hittle Aziz, who created a disturbance on the night of the gala performance at the theatre, as, deeming himself to have been ihSulted by one of the court functionaries, ho screamed, stamped -his foot and bawled, “*l/(c diable, bctc. *.;•