Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-10
Magnificence of the TOmbs of Ancient
POmpeii and Burial Places of
Noted Persons.
Hadrian Castle, st. Paul's of London
and the Westminster Abby
of Italy.
The Burial of Anne Boleyn and
katharine Howard in the
Tower of London.

esq Tor almost every one. The ancients
were most thoughtful of their burial
places, as the pyramids and columns by
many an ancient river" testify. The
Street of the Tombs, in Pompeii, itself an
open and untenanted grave, shows that
people lived, loved and died, ard their
graves were marked as by those whose
ideas of Immortality are more orthodox.
When one thinks of the greatest man of
his time and perhaps of all time. Moses.
Is there not sadness in the thought that
mo man knoweth Of his sepulcher unto
this day?'
Away off in Rome in the little protes-
tant cemetery, under the shade of a great
pyramidal monument erected lob, G. in
honor of Caius Cestius, Roman tribune.
Is the grave of John Keats, the young Eng
llsh poet whose fire of life burned so bril-
l1antly and was so soon extinguished. The
plain headstone bears the melancholy in
scrlpt1on, Here lies one whose name was
writ IN water" The ashes of the poet
Shelley are also buried mere. He was
drowned In the Mediterranean and his BODY
recovered and cremated. His heart
escaped the fire and was sent to England.
On the Ilber rises what looks like a
huge medieval castle and has been used
for defense In numerous sieges. The En-
peror Hadrian wanted posterity to realize
ne had lived and erected this stately pile.
which was the tomb Of all the emrerors
from Hadrian to Caracalla. It was used
once as a prison, and here poor, unfor-
tunate, beautiful Beatrice Cenci was in
carcarated in a gloomy dungeon.
st. Peters Is the beautiful tomb of
many of the holy fathers. There is one
which must be a continual memento
mort to tho living pope, as his body rests
there until his own tomb is completed.
Pope Plus TX lay in it from 1873 to 1881,
when his body was taken to San Lorenzo,
outside Of the walls.
Raphael, the immortal painter, buried
IN the Pantheon. 1t was once heather
temple, and is now in more perfect state
Of preservation than any other ancient
building In Rome. It is great circular
building, lighted only by single aperture
in the dome. Raphael was only a Young
man when he died in the height OF his
fame. His body was borne to the church
followed by sOrrowing Rome, and the DC
ture, the last work of his hand, carried be-
fore. Victor Emmanuel, one of the heroes
Of modern Italy, is also buried in the
Pantheon. TIVE soldiers, old followers of
his, are on guaId always. In spite Of the
i'll feeling, which has not died out between
the Vatican and Q1irinal, solemn requiem
mass is held here on each anniversary of
his death.
In the Westminster abbey Of Italy,
Santa Croe, FLORENCE, is buried Michael
Angelo, with his face toward the cathedral
he loved SO we'll. Calico is buried in the
same church. In the protestant cemetery,
Florence, is the grave of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning. The design Of the monument
is not at all pleasing. too heavy and
square. 1t bears the modest inscription.
&c. B. B." with the date Of her birth and
death.
The tomb of Abelard and HeIoise is in
Pere la Chaise, Paris. The tragic love
story still livas, and wreaths and flowers
are constantly placed before it by the TO
mantle and by disappointed lovers.
The church OF st. Denis. outside of
Paris, was the burial place of the French
kings from Dagobert to the time of the
French revolution, when the tombs were
destroyed, the crypt broken through and
the royal bones thrown into the common
bitches. Louis XVIII had the remains of
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette removed
from the churchyard of the Madeline here
Every one knows the story eff their death,
how their blood ran with the blood Of
thousands in the stress of Paris to satisfy
the rage of the people.
The Terror of Europe" Napoleon, as
L. B. A ldrich says, is "held down by so
tons of porphyry' in the egiise des Inua
lides. The tomb is an open crypt. One
looks down upon 1t and thrills at the sight
of the battle flags and the names of his
victorious battles recorded On the pave
ment. Above the entrance are the words
from his will, 81 desire that my ashes re-
pose on the banks of the Seine in the
midst Of the people | have loved so
we'll"
The Pantheon was once a church, then
secula1ized, reconsecrated, and finally re.
seCularized for the obsequies of Victor
Hugo. He is buried In the crypt. Mira
beau, Marat, Rousseau and Voltaire were
all buried here, but their bodies have been
remoy
In st. Peters chapel, in the Tower of
London, lie Anne Boleyn and Katharine
Howard, two wives of bluff King Hal"
They were beheaded, aud also sweet Lady
Jane Grey, who is buried in this chapel.
Royalty, with few exceptions, is buried in
Westminster abby, as are most of the poets
Of England, from Chaucer down. The in
scriptlon on the poet Gays tablets rather
grim:
Life is Jest, all things show it;
l thought so once and now know it.
Lord Nelson and the Duke of Yelling
I
The architect Wren is buried there also,
and the great cathedral must stand for
ever as his own monument.
In the Parliament square, EdinbUr gh
marked by small stone, is the spot here
the mortal remains Of the great reformer
Knox were committed, with the words,
There lies ne who never learned the
face of man"
In Melrose Abbey, under the high al
ter, lies 1.-The heart of King Robert the
Bruce
In Doyourg Abbey, in 1882, was buried
hopes of the resurrection to eternal life"
His stone is marked with the motto which
guided his beautiful life. Watch
Weel"
Both HAVANA and Santo D omingo claim
the honor of possessing the mortal re
mains of our great Columbus. He died in
1906 and was buried at Valladolid In
1913 his body was removed to Seville, and
after the death of his son who was buried
there also, both bodies were taken to
Santo Domingo and buried in the chance!
of the cathedral. In 1895 Santo Domingo
was ceded to France. Spain reserving the
right to remove the remains of Columbus.
The Dominican ecclesiasties did not want
this done, and as events have proved per
petrated fraud and effected a substitu-