Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1878 — The Way the Pope Warms his Hands. [ARTICLE]

The Way the Pope Warms his Hands.

The Holy Father is now much better, and, had it not been for the paralysis of his limbs, it might be said that his health was as good as it was last spring. For the past three days he has been taken from his bed at 9 o’clock in the morning and placed in his arm-ohair, in which he remains until 2 o’clock in the day. It is ku*wn that he has a horror of fire. He can’t endure a stove in any of his apartments; but when the weather is bad, aud his hands become cold, he asks for his palletta. This palletta is a silver ball a little larger than an egg, in which hot water is inclosed. The Pope takes it, rolls it in Iris hands for a few moments ; then, when his hands are warm enough, he places it upon a footstool, and takes it up again if he finds it necessary. This ingenious method of wamibg the fyrrtds is the invention of the Pope bimeelf. ~~ - - v - ->