Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21
OF SOME FAMOUS WIDOWS.
List OF Soyereigns Numbers Three
Hundred and Twenty-Five.
MOST POWERFUL OF WIDOWS
Is Victoria, Queen OF England, Who
Rules over aTs,T.S,sog People.
Some Interesting Facts.

There is Hebrew tradition that Eve
survived Adam. and was therefore
the first widow.
The list OF soverelgns records the
names Of 500 Widows who either signed
In their own names or as regents.
Boadicea Was widow when eho
led the great revolt which nearly ended
the Roman 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 AS
057 square miles OF the earth's terri
tory. and S7S,725s57 OF It's population.
She became 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
distinction usually accorded to the
widow Of an Emperor.
DIDO, OF Carthage was widow at
the time sho captlVntcd Aonens. Ac-
cording TO the most reliable records.
she was endowed with great prudence
ana political sagacity and Carthage
owed its subsequent prosperity to her
foresight,
Catherine pnrr tho lady who had
the singular good fortune 10 become
the widow Of Henry VII, would have
been In luck II she had remained a
widow, She married Sir Thomas Scy-
muur with whom she lived very I'M
happily and finally died under suH-
piclon Of polsouing.
cleopatra became widow through
poisoning her husband. She was the
cauae Of not a little dlRcord In the
families OF Caesar and Antony The
former took her TO Rome with him,
but the people sympathized SO strong
~ with the diotator'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. tho "scml-
ramis of the North" was a widow OF
mptchlcgs abilities, both political and
military She raised sweden TO
height OF power never before known,
and made her influence felt In nll the
surrounding countries. a dstin-
gulshed French writer says Of her;
"Shc was magnificent In her pleasures
grand in her projects, brilliant In her
court"
Catherine lie Medlci, widow OF Henry
H., ruled France with absolute power
FOR many years during the nominal
reign OF her sons, Francis H. and
Charles IN. II WAS under her auSplcea
that the massacre of ST. Bartholomew
was planned and executed, In hcr
Inst days she perceived the evil coure-
quonces OF hcr policy IN regard both to
the people and the nobility. and ad-
Yised n change
Joan Of Naples becnmo 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 overthrowu by forelgn
armies sent 60 avenpo her husbands
murder. She was defeated, taken, ana
smothored to death. Her generosity
to men OF learning IL celebrated by
both petrarch and Bocnaccio.
One OF the most famous widows OF
antiquity was Agrippina, the wife OF
Germuncus. During the lifetime OF
her husband she attended him In all his
campaigns and shared his dangers.
Suspectlng that her husband had been
poisoned she had his presumed muir
derer hasaEsinnted and was herself
soon after treated with such indlBnity
by Tiberius that abe was driven to
despair and starved herself To death.
Lady Huntington, the ilustrlous
patron Of the Methodists, was a widow
for 40 years. She lived to be 80 years
old. and retained the Nigor Of middle
life almost to the end Her benevo-
lencca were innumerHble, and she
founded a number OF ohapels and
schools for tho Methodists. Not long