Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1894-02-23
GREAT HOUSES FALL.
THE RUIN BROUGHT ON BY DE-
GENERATE SONS.
Noble European Families That
Have Been Dragged DOwn-Nany
Princes Who Died Paupers.

NtW 1Urh journal.
In the little village OF Grodno
Lithuania, there died u few weeks ago
the bearer OF one of the proudest
names in Eastern European history
| says the New York Tribune. He was
an ordinary physician, and went his
daily rounds among the village sick
+! collecting with great difficulty enough
money to support his aged wife. 1t
was Prince Ignas Jagello, believed by
many to be the last scion OF the royal
Sagello family, which once ruled in
Lithuania. BY the victory of Tam
menberg, in 14l0, 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 magniticence of his ancestors led
a German writer recently to collect a
number of instances of the degrade
ton Of the descendants of once famous
and powerful families.
"In Grosswarddein, Hungary" he
writes, died recently modest and
Industrious clerk, Jodnann Szabo, who
had passed his life in semi-povetry
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 the Marquise Chabaud Rohan,
who immigrated into Hungary after
the French revolution. The old gen.
tleman taught languages in the
Wenckheim House, adjusted himself
to his changed condition, married and
gave the name Szabo to his descend
ants. When it was learned that a
Rohan had died in France leaving an
immense fortune, they came forward
and proved that they were genuine
Rohans. But the recognition of their
claims was useless, as they had not
been remembered by the testator.
The old Szabo continued to work as a
poor clerk till his death. and no one
can say that he dishonored the famous
noble family to which he belonged.
That was left for another scion OF the
race, Prince Benjamin Rohan, who
was sentenced to prison in Paris two
years ago and subjected to q fine Of
1000 francs.
1.-The last Borgia came to his end
short time ago at Guigi. near Salz-
burg. He was Baron Calisto Won
Borgia, whose father lost his fortune
through the Austrian Government in
1887, and lived later in Saizburg, as an
employe OF a tobacco house. The
young baron was employed for short
time in the Office OF a lawyer and be-
came later photographer, living for
twenty years in Germany. A long
sickness impoverished him, and his
widow lives from the aims OF others.
"On board OF a steamer going from
Bordeaux to the Thames in 1880, just
as the vessel came in sight of the
English Coast, an old man, apparently
poverty stricken, ended his days. He
called himself Charles Edward Stuart,
Count OF Albany. He was, in fact, the
last descendant OF the Pretender,
Charles Edward and his wife. the
Princess Louise Stolberg.
"Leon de Luzignano, Prince OF
Koricoss, descendant Of the Armen.
ian Kings, died in Italy in the most
abject poverty. He had served in
the French army until 1859, and was
wounded at Solferino. Napoleon III.
granted him q pension, which, how
ever, 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-Morency is farm servant In
the neighborhood of Paris. A descend
ant of the Valois family is q letter
carrier in Saint-Chsmss; a Marquis
de Fallique is An omnibus guard, q
Saint-Megrin is cab driver, Count
Charles de Busserolle is floor cleaner
i'll RufIec. and De IL Bourdarfiere is
washerwoman.
Only short time ago a minister
in the village OF West Bromwick,
Yorkshire, discovered possibly the last
Plantagenet in small -of-all-work.
His father was chimney-sweep, and,
despite the family tree in his posses.
sion, had shortened the name into
Plant, to escape being teased by his
comrades. A Tudor died in Wales in
the thirties as poor coppersmith.
"The fall of the great German noble
family of Won Sickingen is also inter-
esting. In the churchyard of the
little village of Yorch, near Sauerthal,
is the grave of the last male descend
ant of Franz Won Sickingen, who once
bade defiance to a German Emperor
and made France fear. He died after
wasting his property, in 1884, in the
hut of peasant, who had given him
shelter from pity.
CAS- the Paris Figaro recently told
its readers, Princess Galitzin works
as stable girl in a French circus; a
Prince Krapotchin is a cab driver in
Moscow; a Prince Soltikof is q labor
er in st. Petersburg market; Prin-
cess Pignatelli is a music hall singer,
and Countess Olosy is circus rider.
Among the cab drivers of London
is All English Lord, a continental
Baron, and an ex-member of Parlia-
ment."
AN aggravated case of larceny was
that of the tramp who stole the
Chehaiis Roe edifor's occOunt and the