Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-02

Thai form our lives, and make our woe or Hiss!
Italy7s queen.
Marguerite Las great passion for the
Jewel which h9r name signifies. In all
her pictures sac is aiaost covered with
pearls. The famous collier de la.Reine,
which she wears On almost all occasions,
is composed G&;seyen rows OF lmmans8
pearls, all of one size and Of nsatchless
beauty the einsp is q very large dla-~
mond. In her ears, she has pearl pen
dants fully two inches long, Y eth dia,--
mond solitaire.
It would take an Italians enthusiastic.
pen to describe tbs Queen herself. It IS
not an exaggeration to say shat she IS;
the idol OF her s0bjects. l3tere is Ca
pretty storTaafoas, which, il we lived II,
the middle ages, would certai oily become
a beautiful legend. In the spring time
her subjects 60 to the green fields to,
pluck marguerite, and pull It's pe5als
one by one saying "Tu m'aimes IN,
peu, boazieoup passionnemeat-; theTdo.
not add the g Pas du tout !" for feag' the
last petal will fall with those last c1uel
words. She has one Of tae most VIM
ming aadsympathetic OF faces. She-is,a
blonde; has large, blue eyes, q lovely
mouth, and, without the cid OF ant, has
fair. fresh complexion. She IS not at
all az. insipld blonde; she has character
in her face, tempered wish,a gentle and
lively expression. The Ealians call her
La. Gentilezza Italiana." She. is 80,
perhaps little over, but does not look
over %. Royalty does Iotseem to weigh
very heavy on her mind, and she seems
to have changed the traditional stately,
q1eenly air OF bygona- Queens for the
happy, cordial, aifabl9, look OF a happy
and beautiful woman securely reposing
N. the love OF her subjects.
Cornish ygers&ia,g " oanen.
Picking our way through the purplish
| mud and stones below Earn, we dis
covered a little old woman laborine over
pile OF unnlllet. copper ore. We had
to look twice before We could assure OFF
| selves OF her sex not only was her
dress perplexipg, but there was an I'M
reality and weirdness IN her person.
She was very small, almost dwarfsh,
with bent shoulders and vrinllled hands
| parchment, and was euriously mottle0
with blue her hair was shin and wiryi
She seemed very old, but her eyes had 6
shrewd ana penetrating quicAness, a26
| her movements we're utterly without
decrapituie. Indeed, she applied her
self to her work with the willing vigol
of q strong young man, and the work
consisted Of shoveIing the heavy Hooks
Of ore into asmall wagonrasting on q TEN
porary tramway ShoYelful after shovel
ful was thrown in with aneasy mus
c,1lar swing, and with much mo2a activ-
ity than the average "Davvy" ever ex
hibits. Her petticoats ended above the
ankle, and were stained with toe hue o
The copper ore her shapeless legs were
unified up in WOODEN wraps, and he
feet incasad in substantial brOgans. Six
iwasnot apparently uncomfortable bod
ly, but her face had look Of uncom
planning suffering, of unalterablt
gravity, of habituated sorroy
which had extinguished all pos
sibility OF smile. Not IN
derstanding a question which we pu
to her, she used The words, "Please
sir?"-a form Of interrogation which We
often heard in the neighborhood Of Red
ruth. "You seem TO be cid for sue
hard work." we repeated. Deed, sill
/ don't know how old / am, but w
been at it this forty years. I'm no
young any longer, that's sure" she al
swered, in clear voice, with scarcel
any accent. care you married." Ono
sir; nobody would ever have me-" sht
continued. without relaxing from he
gravity or delaying her work for
moment-' nobody would ever have m
Or go with me, as was always snbiec
to tits-terrible fhey are. ] still hay
'em once or twice week som etimes
always with change in the moon.
, "How do you account for it?" "Why
before my twenty-fourth year I was i
the service Of lady, who threw m
down stairs, and that changed my BLOOD
: so, when the moon changes, 7 have til
} its. Little can be done for them. whe1
: the blood's changed" This superstitio
{ was matter Of profound faith with he1
! bot otherwise her manner was remark
ably intelligent She told us that be
wages were fourteen pence - twenty
eight cents-a day; and when we III
necessarily said that she must be tire
of work at such price, she answered
: in bitter tone, ''No use being tireC
: when you are tired there's the work
! house for you"
J, u She had nearly filed the wagon b
this time, and two younger women
. dressed as she was, but mcre vigorous
e looking, came to help her, and ate
1 splitting on their hands, which were 6
= large aud as hard as any mans, they az
l. :: piled themselves to the heap Of ore, fal
u ing into 81 machine-like swing Of Il
t body as they scooped up the heay
rock. Two men afterwarl joined then
s and when the wagon was loaded the
IS propelled it along the track toward Il
: mill, the women sharing the wol
I equally with the men, If indeed they d
lV not use even greater exertions.
- The employment of women unde
L ground is now forbidden by law, Il
degradation resulting from it havir
been perceived by English legislato
: when it had become fagitlous but
s thirteen thousand persons engaged
the mines, about two thousand a
It women, who are employed in warrior
4 parts of the process Of dressing the or
: In the simpler operations very youl
L girls are useful, and at the mill we foul
8 a large number Of them-the daughte
10 Of miners usualiy-some of them pref
g and all of them neatly clothed an1 !