STRAY BITS OF FUN.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 180, 27 November 1886, Page 5

STRAY BITS OF FUN.

DON CARLOS' NAME AND TITLE. The Spanish Don Carlos, as etated in later telegraphic dispatcher, lias issued a manifest to tho Spanish people which ia regarded as a direct bid for the throne. The " San Antoni Expresa'^aj s that his claim consists in the fact that his father, Don Juan, was brother of Carlos VI, who died wnhout issue. His main strength lies in the north w estern Provinces. His full name 1 i 9 Don. Carlos de loa Dolores Juan I*adore Jotf Francisco Quirino Antonio Miguel Gabriel Raefael de Bourbon, duke ot Madrid, When ho visited the United States some years ago the steamer fireman threw in chunks of it for fuel. Possibly Don Carlos is a relafivo of that traditional Spaniard who was a nobleman of high degree and happened to be travelling in France. Arriving at a country* hotel in the middle of the night, ho knocked at the door. The landlord protruded his head from an upper window and aeked who was there. Don Fernando de Casa Blauca, da Tres Palacois, de todas Loa Santos," etc., etc. O, boHier ! "I haven't got room for the whole gang," said the landloid. banging the window, and leaving the man with the long name out in the cold. Perhaps Don Carlos' long name has something to do with hia being left; out in the cold. — " Texas Stftings."~