New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-08-26

r. l. p" are letters that imply an invocation
TO Providence that the body beneath the tomb
etore monument upon which they are in
scrihed may be permitted to rest in peace i'm
ITS last Sleep But this pathetic prayer seems
seldom TO find any hearing where the bodies OF
the anointed of the Lord are concerned. People
On less exalted spheres OF life may expect when
they die 20 be permitted 10 repose undisturbed
untfl the Day Of Judgment. But no ruler or
scion OF any Of the reigning families OF the Old
World is able TO share this comforting thought
For he knows full well. by sad experience, that
there are no royal tombs in existence that can
be considered as secure from PROCLAMATION. The
nummifled remains Of princes and princesses of
the Pharaohic dynasties of Egypt have been
used for some kinds of paints and pigments,
after being ground into powder by means OF
kind Of improved coffee grinding machine: while
the embalmed corpses Of kings and queens have
been torn from their graves. crucified, gibbeted,
dragged in the mud and burned, by Fay of
demonstrating the popular execration in which
their memory was held. 1t is impossible to
describe I'm print the shocking treatment TO
which the Terrorists Of 1893 subjected the arti-
ficlally preserved bodies OF those of the kings
and queens OF France who were entombed at
St Denis; and only few short years ago the
mausoleum of the second wife of the late King
Victor Emmanuel Of Italy was the scene Of
open and the body Of the once beautiful Rosina
dragged out and reduced almost to cinders by
means OF petroleum. Quite recently the curators
Of the Paris Louvre have been experiment
ing with saw and razor on the hardened heart
OF the Egyptian King Rameses XI, who
died more than twelve centuries before the birth
of Christ. Still more singular was the fate Of
the heart of King Louis XIV Of France. AT the
lime % the Wrecking OF the Church Of St. Louis
and St. Paul at Paris it sold by one OF the
Terrorists 10 Lord Harcourt. who happened to
be in Paris at the time. He took it home TO
Euneham, his country seat in England. where.
jncased in crystal box. Il was kept a curl
Osity. once. when il was being passed around
the dinner table for inspection at dessert. DR..
Ruclland. the Dean OF Westminster, divine
famed for HIS eccentricity put the heart, which
had dried down TO about the size of a large wal
nut. into his mouth, presumably in a fit Of alb
eence of mind, and before any could inter
fere swallowed II. More prosaic was the fate Of
ttA hearts Of King Louis XII of Queen Anne,
surnaTned "of Austria OF the Regent" Duke of
orleans. Of Queen Mary of ATedici and of that
French princess who was the Queen Of the ILL
fated King Charles Of England For when the
vaults = thu Church Of ST Louis and St Paul
were plundered for the sake of the gold and sill
uI@sS containing the hearts Of Gallo royalty
10 fewer ttan eleven OF these hearts were are
scented by the revolutionary official who SUPER
intended the outrage to an artist friend of his
named MARTA Droling. The latter used them in
order 20 manufacture the peculiar dark brown
pigment known in art monte and the picture
IF the -InteTieur de Cuisine" which he painted
a short time afterward. and which now hangs
in the Louvre. is said to owe the richness of its
dark tints 10 minute portions of the hearts Of
defunct Bourbons- The hearts OF Anne OF Aus
1ria and Of Henrietta Of England mixed with oil
and spread upon an artists canvas representing
a kitchen! What commentary the vanity
of human greatness,
II the heart Of Louis XVII now rests in the
mausoleum Of e2iled French royalty at Goerz.
in Austria. 1t szonly after the most extraor-
binary vicissitudes. Sealed in a glass Jar hid
den behind the books Of the library Of the
sHysfeian Via za&s the autopsy of the
Da-sl'Tn's corpse. stolen by that doctors assist
ant. enshrined in the altar OF a cardinals
oratory. robbed and, desecrated by riotous
Partisan mob, recovered from heap Of offal
and dirt, put up al public auction. and then con-
Veyed with much ceremony across Europe, first
TO Venice and then to Austria, the adventures
OF this poor little dried up morsel Of humanity
are scarcely OF a character to encourage ROYAL
personages in the belief that their last sleep
Will remain undisturbed
II is not only mobs that interfere with +be
repOse Of the illustrious dead Curiosity, nro,,rt
many TO open the tornbs Of the great personages
who have made history in times long ago And
strangely enough, some OF the principal Of
tenders in this respect are the very neonla ~
whom he's been eonhded the care Of these dead
The late Archbishop Benson Of Canterbury uses
TO speak with horror OF a we'll known and