Identifier: southernstatesof00kingrich (find matches)
Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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coming of Rex, most puissant King of Carni\al (Page 41 T HE CO M INC. O F 41 The Lord of Misrule and his Kni^dits; in 1871, Mother Gooses Tea Partywas given; in 1872, a group of creations of artists and poets and visionaries,from lean Don Quixote to fat Falstaff, followed; and in 1873 the birds wererepresented, in a host of fantastic and varied tableaux. Another feature has been added to the festivities, one which promises in timeto be most attractive of all. It is the coming of Rex, most puissant King of
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The Bosuf-Gras—the fat o,\ — is led in the procession. ( Paje 42.) Carnival. This amiable dignitary, depicted as a venerable man, with snow-whitehair and beard, but still robust and warrior-like, made his first appearance on theMississippi shores in 1872, and issued his proclamations through newspapers andupon placards, commanding all civil and military authorities to show subservienceto him during his stay in our good city of New Orleans. Therefore, yearly,when the date of the recurrence of Mardi-Gras has been fixed, the mystic Kingissues his proclamation, and is announced as having arrived at New York, orwhatever other port seemeth good. At once thereafter, and daily, the papersteem with reports of his progress through the country, interspersed with anec-dotes of his heroic career, which is supposed to have lasted for many centuries.The court report is usually conceived somewhat in the style of the followingparagraph, supposed to be an anecdote told at the palace by an old gray-

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