THE POPE AND HIS SLIPPERS.
AVnrriN'i; from Sin Homo on December, :i corresi.iwidont. .-ays : —A. pair of nicely cmliroidf r..d cosy slippers has always been u favourite present, jhit all such domonstraUons of nU'eetion or uppreciatiou of religious benefits f;uL-s into nothingness ht'h-v what, is now happening at Rome. Tlio I'.iji'._■ is having aiijinors literally poo,- .1 in upon Mm on tins'th" oi;r;:i'.-!'.-i m' Ms .(urnce. Up lo Chri.-imis day h" Irnl ]2,(jiK) pairs sent to Mm to cover 'his holv foe, and the «iv is, '■ Still they rnni"."'' They i.r.' of all" kinds and designs, not to say si/-s, an'l fair finders in every onuiiiry of tho world have contributed to this result. Kn-laud has sent it fair quota, and oven Scotland is not unrepresented in this pile of puult,nil,:\ "What is to bo dono villi them is Vast becoming a problem. ][~ eannot liopo to ■wear them out. If ho lives half a century longer than tho usual stem of human existence, which ho Ins a! ready reached, and uses a pair :i. day, ho will not even then have exhausted llio stock. —X. T>, Miri-liiTi:
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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187THE POPE AND HIS SLIPPERS. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2459, 14 April 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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