A Present from the Pope.
His Holiness—says the Journal de Bruxelles—has sent to the young bridegroom, the Duke of Brabant, "a fragment of the wood of the manger which formed the cradle of our Saviour." The Pope has a constant supply of relics on hand to be bestowed on fitting persons and fitting occasions. Enthrone Liberty in the Capitol, and the Pope, no doubt, would send her a relic; nothing less than "the Kiss of Judas?"