The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-04


petsed and even eaten; the only way OF
assuring themselves Of that safety being
oy having their bodies CONSIGNED 10 the
bosom Of Mother Earth.
Must II not, for instance. have been
painful IN the extreme for that admirable
Woman Queen-Regent Christina Of Spain.
70 know that for the first six years of
her WidOwhOOd her husbands body Lag.
not IN hallowed earth. nor even in his
present tomb under the great dome of the
LscuFlal, but remained uncOfined on a
stone slab in a cave followed out OF
me rock on which this gloomy palace is
ouiIt' undergoing a gradual II slow pro-
cess OF mummification2 or was il until
the BODY had become completely dessicated
mat II was placed in the sarcophagls
that constitutes the last resting place of
poor Don Alphonso XII.
The Escurial. if somber, is certainly
the most imposing and regal of all the
mausoleums of the old-world royalties.
Less stately, but more beautiful as re-
CARDS site and structure. is the superb
Chureh OF the Superga. near Turin. in
the vaults Of which repose the princes
and princesses of the ancient house of
savoy IL is indeed a striking monu-
ment erected on the veRy brow of a lofty
nil which dominates not only the city of
Iurin' but the entire Valley OF the Pied
mont. or Russia's dead emperors. all
those who lived and reigned prior to Peter
the Great lie in the cathedral OF the
Arehangel Michael, within the precincts
OF the kremlin at Moscow Since the
foundation of St Petersburg in the sew
enteenth century, the cars and their
eonsorts, as well as the princes and prin-
cesses or their dynasty. have been laid at
rest in the church inside the fortress of
SITS. Peter and Paul, on the right bank of
the NeVa, facing the Winter Palace The
sarcophagi are all empty, merely destined
TO mark the site of the imperial tombs
beneath the marble floor; while far down
below the dead bodies Of the Russian
autocrats are the dungeons in which are
imprisoned the nihilists who are consign-
ed to fate that can be described only as
a living death
San Vincente de Force, the black and
white marble church just outside the
walls of Lisbon. may be regarded as the
superga or mausoleum of the reigning
house of Portugal. Most of Denmark's
monarchs are buried in the Cathedral of
Roeskilde, the ancient capital of the king
dom, some twenty miles from Copen-
hagen. Most of these illustrious dead lie
in sarcophagi, but the remains of King
Harold Blue Tooth" who reigned in A.
d. sS5; of Queen Margaret who died in
1870, as well as of several other kinds and
queens. are built into the center of the
columns that support the roof OF the
basilica.
The members of the House of Orange
sleep their last sleep in the vaults of the
so-called New church at Delft, and alone.
perhaps, of all royal mausoleums that edi-
nee contains the remains of a dog 1t was
pet of William l., and had on two oc-
casions saved his royal masters life by
warning him of the approach of the Span
ism assasslns, who eventually murdered
him In 1884. Another peculiarly in connec-
ton with this royal mausoeum is the fact
that one of the princes, Alexander by
name, half brother of the present young
Queen Wilhelmine, lies there embalmed
and buried, wearing an orange silk quilted
petticoat! He was crippled from his birth
and completely crazy during the closing
years of his life, his dementia taking the
form, among others, of an invincible OBJ
lection to that particular branch of mas
culine attire which has now been usurped
by the new woman. In petticoats he lived
and in petticoats according to his express
entreaty and command, he was laid in his
tomb where he awaits the day of judg-
ment.
Unlike the dead of the imperial house
of Hapsburg, which all lie in the vaults
of the very ancient Capucine church at
Vienna, those of the Hohenzollern are
sadly scattered, some of them being en-
tombed in the unlovely and mean-looking
Dom or Cathedral of Berlin; others at
Potsdam; while the last two emperors re-
pose in a mausoeum at Charlottenburg
The same may be said of England's royal
dead, some of whom repose in Westm1n-
ster Abbey, Others in the vaults beneath
ST. Georges chapel, at Windsor, while
some. again, are to be found in the vari-
GUS cathedrals of the provincial towns
Queen Victoria has commanded that when
her long and busy life has been brought
to a close, her body shall be laid beside
that of her husband in the $1,OO0,O00 mauso-
leum which she has erected over his
tomb at Frogmore, Windsor; but if the
Prince of Wales has his way, and If the
views to which he has recently given ex-
preston and which are known to be those
OF his consort, are permitted to prevail,
he will, when his hour comes, be laid to
rest not in a marble or granite sarco-
phagus, but in an ordinary grave beside
the body of his little boy in the rurally
picturesque and shady churchyard of
Sandringham.