The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1894-02-20
GREAT 1 iIILIES FALL.
Degenerate Sons Sooner or Later
Ruiu Them.
Lithuanian Prince Who Died Almost
fanpeT-How Noble European Houses
Rave Been Dragged Down-Descena-
ant OF King Ns>o mes = Waiter

Have Been Dragged Down-Descena-
ant Of King !ls . s1es a Waiter
In the little village of Groduo. Lith.
uania, there died a few weeks ago the
bearer Of one of the prordest names IN
eastern European history. SAYS the
New York Tribune. He was an ordi-
nary physician. and went his daily
rounds among the village sick, collect
ing with the greatest difficulty enough
money to support his aged wife 1t
was Prince ignaz Jagello. believed by
many to be the last scion Of tn. roval
Jagello family, which once ruled in
Lithuania. By the victory Of Tam
menberg, in I4l0. the founder OF the
family broke the power Of the Ger
man Order" The difference between
the simple life Of this DR. Rezio" and
the magnifcence of his ancestors led a
German writer recently to collect
number Of instances OF the degradation
of the descendants Of once famous and
powerful families.
'In Grosswarddein, Hungary" he
writes, died recently modest and in
dustrious clerk, JOhnann Szabo, who
had passed his lie in semi-poverty.
Few who followed him to the grave
! knew that his real name was one Of
| the highest and greatest in French
history. The aged Szabo was grand
son of Marquis Chabaud Rohan, who
| immigrated into Hungary after the
French revolution, The old gentleman
taught languages in the Wenckheim
! house, adjusted himself to his changed
condition. married and gave the name
| SEA DO to his descendants When ii was
| learned that a Rohan had died in
! France leaving an immense fortune,
| they came forward and proved they
were genuine Rohans. But the recog-
milton Of their claims was useless, as
| they had not been remembered by the
testator. The old Szabo continued to
work as poor clerk to lis death, and
! no one can say that he ever dishOnOred
| the famous noble family to which he
belonged. That was left for another
scion of the race, Prince Benjamin Ro-
han, who was sentenced to prison in
! Paris two years ago and subjected to
! fine of two thousand francs
THE last Borgia came to his end a
! short time ago at Guigl, near Salzburg.
He was Baron Calisto Won Borgia,
whose father lost his fortune through
the Austrian government in 1887, and
| lived later in Salzburg, as an emplOye
Of a tobacco house. The younger
baron was employed for short time
| in the office of lawyer and became
later photographer, living for twenty
years in Germany. a long sickness
IMPOVERISHED him, and his widow lives
from the aims Of others.
son board of steamer going from
Bordeaux to the Thames in 1880, just
| as the vessel came in sight of the Eng
| lish coast, an old man, apparently pow
! erty stricken, ended his days lie
called himself Charles Edward Stuart,
! count Of Albany. He was, in fact, the
last descendant Of the pretender,
{ Charles Edward, and his wife, Princess
Louise Stolberg
Il con de Luzignana. prince Of kOri,
c0ss. a descendant of the Armenian
, kings. died in Italy in 1876, in the most
abiect poverty. He had served in the
French army until 1859. and was wound
ell at Solfcrino. Napoleon III. granted
| him pension. which, however, was
not paid after the fall Of the empire.
The famous family Of Mont-Morency
related to the Lusignans,' adds the
writer. has sunk so far that Mont
Norency is a farm servant in the
neighborhood of Paris. A descendant
of the Nalois family is letter-carriel
in Suint-ChamaS; q Marquis de Fal
liQue is an omnibus guard, Saint
Ne~rin is = cab driver, Count Charlie
de Busserolle is floor cleaner in Ruff
fec and a De la Eourdarfere is wash
: erwoman.
Only a short time ago minister il
: the village Of West Br0mwick, York
. shire, discovered possibly the last
Plantagcnet in small boy-of-all
work. lis father was a chimney
sweep, and, despite the family tree il
his possession, had shortened the nam,
: into Plant to escape being leased by
his comrades Tudor died in Vale.
in the thirties as a poor coppersmith.
THE fall Of the great German noble
family of Won Sickingen is also inter
] esting. In the churchyard Of the littl'
village Of Torch, near Sauerthal, i
? the grave OF the last male descendan'
l OF Franz Won Sickingen. who onc'
s babe defiance to q German enpero1
r and made France fear. He died, afteI
. wasting his property, in 1854, in th'
hut of a peasant who had given hin
shelter from pity.
AS the Paris Figaro recently told it
: readers. a Princess Galitzin works d!
a stable girl in a French circus:
Prince Krapotchin is cab driver ii
Moscow; a Prince Soltikof is a lahore,
= in ). Petersburg market; Princes
: Pignatelli is a music hall singer an
| Countess Olosy is circus rider.
Taxing to Rad Language.
If in re olden days milady "swor'
her pretty oath by yea and nay" tn
modern dame Of fashion. with tn
franlzrcss of her world and period
uses the big, big D. quite openly
Sr,ol.irr seems to be an accepted faC