St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20

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cqse to take drink.
1.-The examination necessary to be
passed before a certificate to practice
medicine in Minnesota must be some
thing of farce. A medical student
stands better show of passing than a
doctor who has allowed himself to get a
little rusty upon medical terms.
WHERE BYRON LIES BURIED.
Restoration of the Church and
the Effect on the Grave.
This week the memorial stones of
new chancel and tranceptS to be added
to the parish church of Hucknall Tor
kard, Motifs, are being laid by the Duke
of Portland, who is patron of the living
by Miss Lucy GOdber, sister of an I'M
beneficial local clergyman who has con-
tributed from his wealth literally to the
restoration of the edifice, and Miss
Jackson, another munificent giver to
the restoration fund. The occasion is
one of more than merely local or even
of national interest, because in vault
underneath the floor of the chancel rest
the remains of George Gordon Byron,
the poet genius when NOttinghamshire
not unreaSOnably claims as her own, al
though he was born in London, and, his
mother being a Scotch lady, spent his
earliest years ayant the Tweed.
The possession of Byron's grave is
the one attraction of Hucknall Torkard.
The town itself is populated by miners
and hosiery makers, and though upon
the edge of Sherwood forest, within a
couple Of miles of Newstead Abbey. and
close to Annesley Park, where Mary
ChaWOrth lived, it is all unlovely spot.
Rut tho fact that Ryrop iS tbarn int
attracts great many visitors to the
place, especially foreigners, and glance
ut the signatures in the visitors book
III the chantry chapel will show what a
large proportion of these are Amer
leans. 1t is related to the disadvantage
of the HucknalliteS that an American
tourist, alighting in the town and in
qulring the whereabouts of ByrOn'S
grave, was met with the rejOinder from
one native and to the manner born"
byron. all niver 'eered Oh i'm. Yer
able pugilist i'll his day, is buried in a
grave in the adjoining churchyard,
which may easily be singled out from
among the rest by the beaten
track worn by many feet to the
shrine of the fighting man. The i'm
piled reprOach sought to be put upon
the good folk of Hucknall is unde-
served. They are not Indifferent to the
fact that the bones of Byron are buried
in their church, and they have proved
how unjustified theSaturday Reviewwas
when some six months ago 1t denounced
the restoration committee as VandalS,
and visited upon them the intention of
Obliterating the Byron memorials in the
church and of disturbing the poets
grave.
AS matter of fact the restoration
now in progress will leave the Byron
vault untouched.
y THE CIIANCEL IS TO BE MOVED
further to the east to allow of the in
PRODUCTION of north and south transepts
at the east end OF the nave, and the
only effect OF the alteration will be that
the tablet marking the spot where the
within the Sacrarium, will be at the ell
trance of the chancel. The mural mon
uments of the second Lord Byron and
hls, six. sons, all stout royalists in the
great civil. war; the hatchment. of
the poets mother; the tablet
| to the memory of, the poet and
his daughter, Lady Lovelace, and the
funeral achievement of the author of
'Childe Haroldis Pilgrimage" painted
upon silk, will be regretted and replaced
upon the walls of the new chancel in
precisely the same positions relatively
to Byron's tomb as that which they now
occupy. The vault in which the re-
mains lie is now bricked up, but there
still live many who remember the time
when it was the practice of a former
sexton of the church to lower lighted
candle into the roughly-built little
chamber and show the velvet-cOvered
coffin. Byron's remains rest upon all
old leaden coffin, side by side with those
of his mother, and close by lies his
daughter, Augusta Ada, Countess of
Lovelace, who died in 1852. When the
vault was opened to permit of the inter-
ment of Lady LOvelace many persons
visited the church in order to catch
glimpse of the coffin. Upon one occa-
sion, little girl was prevailed
upon to descend the narrow stone
staircase into the vault, and
she returned carrying a narrow
strip Of faded velvet in her hand, torn
from the poets coffin. Among the
group around the mouth of the grave
was a tall. dark foreigner, who eagerly
questioned the child as to her posses
sion, and finally in eXchonge for piece
Of gold, received the strip of velvet.
That man was KOSSuth. The excellent
vicar of Hucknall Torkard has many in
tereSting stories to tell of Byron's tomb,
and in his care are the remains of many
wreaths deposited in the church by not
abilities, one of the most carefully pre-
served being bent piece of twig. which
is all that represents floral Offering
sent by Joaquin Miller from America.
The tablet let into the chancel floor
above the vault is of Rosso Antique
marble, block of which was forwarded
to England by the king of the Hellenes,
to be fashioned into memorials of Byron.
The simple Inscription is surrounded by
a wreath of laurel wrought in brass, the
desigh and workmanship being that of
Richard Elouda Rolf