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Show T i BISHOP TIM0N AND THE QUEEN. I A valued literary friend in Mobile, Ala., writes to the Boston Pilot: The latest Pilot charmed me and led me sweetly back to dear old times, especially espe-cially the part about Bishop Tinjon and his travels in Europe, during which he did some begging for his cathedral. To use the neAv English, the good bishop '-circulated'' pretty freely among the crowned heads. Well, he told me that he kneAV very well the Queen of Sardinia, who had a most miserable miser-able life with her husband, King Victor Emmanuel, whose private life you knoAV was far from that of a saint. This industrious queen Avrought for the holy old bishop a handsome set of vestments which he wore on festivals, and gave him all the alms she j could spare from her other charities, which were j numerous. The bishop gaA-e her much consolation and Avise direction, and she seemed quite reconciled and able to bear her heaAy cross Avhen he spoke to her oi the sufferings of Christ, the shortness of time and the nothingness of this passing world. I asked the bishop in Avhich language these communi- v cations Avere carried oh. He said: 'Tn French " " which the queen spoke very well. The bishop spoke Irench well. too. He said when he called at the palace in Turin by appointment to see her majestv, the officers spoke of him as "the Bishop from the other world." I remember being verv much interested inter-ested in- this poor queen and her sad life. After her death the king married morganaticallv the woman for Avhom he neglected hi3 vh tuous, amiable ! wife. i |