Mad King Ludwig.
Berlin, May 4. Mad King Ludwig, of Bavaria, iias just celebrated his fifty-third birthday. His condition grows worse, and ho now presents a painfully pathetic spectacle. His eyes have lost all expression, and his voice is growing feeble. Thc hair on his head and his beard arc white and ragged, as the appearance of a barber provokes a violent paroxysm. His face is the color of parchment. Tho only sign of recognition he over gives is a feeble smilo. He smokes cigarettes perpetually, and alternates between semistarvation and wild voracity. His doctors say he may live five years unless an internal hemorrhage occurs.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 151, 8 July 1901, Page 3
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106Mad King Ludwig. Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 151, 8 July 1901, Page 3
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