Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — How Famous Rulers Dled. [ARTICLE]

How Famous Rulers Dled.

Louis XVII., titular King of Franco, the unfortunate dauphin, died in the Temple of Paris of abuse and neglect. His body was identified and certified to by four members of the Committee on Public Safety and by more than twenty pflicials of the temple. The remains were privately buried in the cemetery of St. Marguerite and every trace of the grave was carefully obliterated. Herod the Great was attacked by a vile disease, which caused his body to mortify oven before death. When aware that he was near his end he commanded all the most noble and prominent men of the Jewish nation to be apprehended and confined in a theater near his palace and gave orders that as soon as he was dead they were all to be slain. He intended, he said, to have mourning at his death. They were released after he had breathed his last. William the Conqueror was a man of very gross habit of body, and at the siege of Nantes was hurt by the rearing of his horse, the pommel of the saddle striking the King in the abdomen and causing injuries from which he died in a few days. Before his death he was deserted by all his attendants, who stole and carried off even the coverings of the bed on which he lay. The body remained on the floor of the room in which the King died for two days before it was buried by charitable monks from a neighboring monastery. William Rufus was killed by an arrow, either accidental or with murderous intent. He died in the New Forest, his body was stripped by tramps, and the next day was found by a charcoal burner, who placed the naked corpse on his cart, hoping to receive a reward. On the way to Winchester the cart was upset and the King’s body fell in the mire. Covered with filth and black with charcoal it arrived in Winchester, where it was buried in the Cathedral. A few years later the tower fell and crushed the tomb and 600 years after the Puritans rifled the grave and played foot-ball with the King’s skull. — Globe-Democrat

Lady Henry Was Curious. When Lady Somerset first came to America, she was particularly anxious to become acquainted with all the American customs and to take part in everything American. Her appreciation of America was intense. “Now, will you tell me,” said she one day to a friend, “why the chestnut has been selected as a national nut, and why it is so dear-to the hearts of every one? I notice that all, be they old or young, boy or girl, man or woman, speak of the chestnut frequently, and always pleasantly, and even affectionately. i. . “To-day, as I was seated in one of your horse cars, a little boy began telling another one some short anecdote, when suddenly the other little boy sprang to his feet and shouted, ‘Oh, chestnuts!’ Later in the day I saw one man whisper something in the ear of a friend, to which the friend only replied, “Oh, what a chestnut!’ “How pleasant to have something of which every one is so fond. But explain the pause of the liking. Way was that particular nut selected? Why not. the almond or the pecan? Is it that the chestnut grows ntn freely here?”—New’ York World.