And Protector of Mexico, Too

Since the writing game puts food on our table, we currently have a somewhat complicated relationship with Google Books. Try as we might, we've yet to figure out a way we'll be able to avoid starvation in a world where the sweat of our brow gets given away for free. Yet those concerns fall by the wayside when we stumble across primary source gems such as this 1876 account of Emperor Norton's odd habits.

For the uninitiated, Emperor Norton was a 19th-century San Franciscan who believed that Ameri