The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28
SOME FAMOUS WIDOWS.
LIST or sovEREIGNs NUMBERS
325.
Most Powerful of widows Is Victoria.
Queen of England, who Rules Over

moSN POWertui OF WIDOWS Is NtctOrtn.
Queen of England, who Rules over
37S,725,s57 PeopIe-some interest
ing Facts.
From the Hartford Times.
There is a Hebrew tradition that Eve
survived Adam. and was therefore the
first widow.
The list of sovereigns records that the
names Of 1876 widows who either signed
in their own names or as regents.
Boadicea was a widow when she led the
great revolt which nearly ended the Ro-
man power in England. She committed
suicide after the defeat of her army.
Queen Victoria is the most powerful
widow in the globe. She rules II. 475O57
square miles of the earth's territory. and
s7s. FPS. $50 of its population. She became a
widow on Dec. IA, 1861.
The Empress Frederick, daughter of
Queen Victoria, and widow of the late
Emperor Frederick. lives in retirement in
Germany, but enjoys the honors and dis
tinction usually accorded to the widow of
an emperor.
Dido. of Carthage, was a widow at the
time she captivated Aeneas. According to
the most reliable records she was endowed
with great prudence and political sagacity.
and Carthage owed its subsequent pros
perity to her foresight
Catherine Parr, the lady who had the
singular good fortune to become the widow
of Henry VIII, would have been in luck
II she had remained a widow. She married
sir Thomas Seymour, with whom she lived
very unhappily, and nnaiiy oled under
C,ieopatra became a widow through pois-
oning her husband. She was the cause of
not a little discord in the families of Caes-
ar and Antony. The former took her to
Rome with him, but the people sympa-
thized SO strongly with the dictator's wife
that he was obliged to send the Egyptian
queen back to her own country. Antony
gladly ruined himself for her sake.
Margaret of Sweden, the "Semiramis of
the North" was widow of matchless
abilities, both political and military She
raised Sweden to hight of power never
before known, and made her influence felt
in all the surrounding countries. dis
tinRuished French writer says of her:
"fShe was magnificent in her pleasures,
grand in her projects. brilliant in her
court"
II. ruled France with absolute power for
many years during the nominal reign of
her sons, Franciss IL and Charles TX It
was under her auspices that the massacre
of St. Bartholomew was planned and exc
cuted. In her last days she perceived the
evil consequences Of her policy in regard
both to the people and the nobility, and
ADVISED a cldUSG.
Joan OF Naples became a widow by
the simple but effective process of hav-
ing her husband murdered. A woman
of no moral worth, but OF magnificent
abilities she governed her country well
until overthrown by foreign armies sent
to avenge her husband 5 murder. She
was defeated taken and smothered 10
death Her generosity TO men Of learn
ing is celebrated BY both Petrarch and
Boccaccio.
one of the most famous widows of an
tiquity was Agrippina, the wife Of Ger
manicus. During the lifetime Of her hus-
band she attended him in all his cam
paigns and shared his dangers. Suspect
ing that her husband mad been poisoned
she had his presumed murderer assassi-
mated, and was herself soon after treated
with such indignity by Tiberius that abe
was driven to despair and starved her
self TO death.
Lady Huntington the iilustrious pat-
ron OF the Methodista, as a widow for
as years she lived 70 be 20 years ola
and retained the vlgor Of middle life AZ
most 20 the end. Her benevolences were
lnnumerabie, and she founded a number
Of enapels and schools for the efhodisfs
Not long before her death u WA e8fI-