Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1867-11-08
interesting Particulars about the Pope.

The Rome correspondent Of the Paris
Liberte, says: The Pope always rises at 5
o'clock. He at once goes to his prayers
| At 6 valet de chambre is in attendance to
shave him, after which he is visited by his
doctor. At 7 he says mass: He rarely
breakfasts before IL, on account of the off
ces of the Sistine Chapel, and because he
receives his Ministers in the morning. Plus
TX very seldom presides at the Council of
Ministers that duty is left to Cardinal An
tonelli, who gives an account to the Pope
the same day Of the resolutions that may
be adopted, and who submits for his decision
matters Of Importance. The temperate hab-
its Of >the Pope he well known in Rome. -
/ A friend Ct mine attached to the Embassy
was present, last winter at his dinner
fast day-having an urgent dispatch to
communicate The Pope dimes alone at
little table; this is strict etiquette. His
Holiness had just partaken Of q soup Of
herbs, and he had before him two gurnets
(the gurnets Of Italy resemble sardines,)
plate Of French beans, and three little apples.
This excessive sobriety keeps him in gentle
gayety. He converses very willingly dur
ing his walk, and after his dinner, at which
his intmates are present, particularly Nj. de
Merode, whom he has been obliged to sacri-
fee, but whom he always sees with great
pleasure. NJ Merode is Of a sprightly
mind, but somewhat caustic, and the Pope
is often obliged to stop him in the name Of
charity, which is due to our fellow creatures.
M. de Merode told the Pope day or two
ago that Monsigneur B. Bishop ofin
France, when conducting his clergy to the
Coliseum, pointed out to his Vicar General
the spot where Nero used to view the dying
gladiators His Holiness burst out laugh
ing. Every one knows that the Coliseum
was built on the site of Nero's gardens, that
Vespasian laid the first stone Of it, and that
it was finished under Titus and Domitian
At 10 the Pope retires to his little apart
ment, the monastic simplicity Of which is
known to all the world.
His Holiness occupies himself very little
with the government. Cardinal Antonelli
does nothing without consulting him, but
the Pope always approves. His memory is
extraordinary, and he recognizes at his au
dience persons whom he had seen only few
minutes two or three years before.
On his accession to the Pontifcal throne
he sent for his heirs, and said to them
s.Here are 500, 600 francs; it is all that you
shall ever get from me-" ard he has kept his
word. The Pope has civil list Of about
$500 O00f-G140, 600 It is out Of this
moderate sum that he keeps Papal Nuncios
in foreign courts, and pays 2,000f (eSS0)
a year to each of the Cardinals who reside
in Rome Out Of this, too he keeps the
Vatican, that immense palace which contains
not less than 4, 600 rooms, and which re-
quires a large staff of domestics. The Pope
also pays the Palatine Guard and the Noble
Guard; keeps the Pontifcal Chapel, pays the
cam,e,qieraes, his household, &c. All this is
administered with astonishing regularity and
economy. sis
In Rome the Pope is universally beloved
''The Pope is good, but his Government is
bad,'' is the rito,mello Of the Romans, persua-
ded as they are that it is humiliation for
them to be governed by priests. There is
some cleverness in making this distinction
between the Pope and his Government The
French Revolution had its starting point in
the following words which were necessarily
repeated at Versailles, as in Paris in 1890:
sThe King is good alb if the King knew all !
! How SOLDIERS LIGHTED THEIR PIpEs-
A correspondent of the American artisan
tells of an ingenious method Of preserving
fire. It was invented in Weitsels brigade
at the seige of Port Hudson, at the time
matches were luxury:
A ramrod was stuck in the ground, but
with the tip end upward a little wad Of cot
Z ton, Of which there was plenty. as thous-