The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1878-10-04
HISTORICAL
AMONG tbe snIerdid +o,,,,

AMONG the spleEdid tombe :,
is that of the wife of Sha geban
employed 10000 artists and vo-pea Iulea
for twenty-five years. 1t is Of hIlea ~
and white marble, and has tn. oisek
forms, with four towers and p plat
ficent dome. gu
THE first nunnery ever founa.s.r
said TO have been that tn NJ, s
sister of St. anthony retired tle
close of the third century. The s 'ls
founded in France was near po;.! n'st
by st. Marcellina. sister to ST Ms
A. d $50. The first in EDplsn51 1'.n' an
at Folkestone. in Kent, by Fsrb'Is "S
or Edbald, King of Kent, $50 ''-il'
The last person who suffered =,
punishment of branding in F.; We
was a Frenchman On the 9SI sl1Ll
December. 1899, James Otto.n u
French prisoner of war. was CON-. :
of manslaughter in the Adm Adm
Court, London. He was sentennas
be burned in the hand. wh;,L y
CARED into effect before he laA !"
court, and in presence of the Ia 7
VINO tried him (Sir William So
The apparatus.-viz, the cbafin- a.
the brand, and irons for keeni9o - :,
hand steady-being adjusted =,
brand was applied. The patian, I,
tered an involuntary convulsive scrs.--
on feeling the iron, but insta5tI,. >
gained his apparent composure
HENRY THE EIGHTH was tho g..
King of England who assumed a.
title of Majesty. Before his reigD ti,.
sovereigns were usually address
MY Liege," "Your Grace n.
latter epithet was originally aopfarrsI
on Henry the Fourth: "Eycarsr,
( Grace" was given to Henry the Siv,b.
Most High and Mighty Prince :,
Edward the Fourth; "Highness - to
/ Henry the Seventh, which last evr-ss
sion, and sometimes Grace. was Give,
To Henry the Eighth. About tbee1I,f
this reign all titles were absorbqi nv
that of Majesty > with which Franc.
the First addressed him at their inter
view in 1920. James the First counlei
this title to the present "Sacred or
Most Excellent Majesty"
THE poison so freely used bv tRa
Italians in the seventeenth cen,u-r
was called "aqua tofana" from the
name OF the old woman TofaDis WIN
made and sold it in small, fat vials
which she called mamma of St Niebo.
las, on one side of which was an image
of the saint She carried OF i6is
traffic for half a century and elulel
the police, but, on being detected.
confessed that she had 0een party IN
poisoning 600 people. Numerous
persons were implicated by her Of all
ranks, and many of them were pubG.
ly executed All Italy was thrown
into a ferment, and many fed while
some persons of distinction, or conyie
ton, were strangled in prison. Itap
peared to have been used mainly "
married woman who we're tired Of
their husbands. Four on six drops
were a fatal dose, but the effect wss
. not sudden, and therefore, not suspect
ed. 1t was as clear as water, bnt t-5
chemists have not agreed about is
real composition. A proclamation Of
the Pope described it as squaiOHs
distilled into arsenic, and Others con-
sidered it as a solution of crystalliztl
arsenic. The secret of its preparation
was conveyed to Paris, where the Aa-
chioness de Brinvaliers poisoned hH
father and two brothers, and she, VIII
many others, was executed, and l-5
, preparers of i were burned 81 ta
Chicago Ledger.