THE POPE'S PERSONAL APPEARANCE.
A correspondent in Rome writes thus to the London Daily Telegraph of Pope Pius the Ninth's personal appearance : — " He leans rather heavily on bis stick, and has lost to a great extent the nobly erect car' riage which distinguished him bat a very few years ago. In fact, he stoop 3 now. His voice, too, is weaker, and his articula* lation less strikingly distinct. It is five years since I last saw him. He was then 80 years old ; but at SO the Pope was as strong, vigorous, and hale as are most strong men at 05. Even now his eye is wondrous bright and keen; his noble features change with every variation of thought ; his memory is as tenacious as ever. Ue remembered on what subjects he- had talked five years ago. He glides, from Italian into French, and from French into Italian, just as he did then,, and his whole face brightened when bis lips framed as of old the ready wot, in ' waich he never,, in his sorest trials, has been known to fail. The acuteness of his questions as to assurs in the. East proved how strong is the interest he takes in questions, of the day, and his jokes about the Conference, and especially about the SuUan, showed, that beneath the jocular surface there talked a substratum ol shrewd observation."
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Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 30, 18 June 1877, Page 2
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