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Show OIFTS TO TUB POPE. Ilia Hollo., llrrrtraa Many Mlofular l'maanta frum Ilia rlthrol. Tho Vatican has become, a perfect museum of objects, nnlmato and Innnt-mato, Innnt-mato, ns many of tho faithful have desired de-sired to glvo his holiness n personal gift, with In many cases strnngo results. re-sults. Tor Instance, a peasant, from tbo Abrttzxl tho other day brought a pair ot turtlo dovca In a basket and was highly Incensed becauso ha was not allowed al-lowed to carry them Into St. IVter's and present them personally, then and there, to the bead of tho church. A woman brought that Is, carried to tho station n young and lust pig, but was obliged by her horrified parish priest to leave It behind. Alfredo Manclnl, now In Home, has, however, made tho pontiff pon-tiff a present which Is most Interesting and valuable. Not long ago ho brought with him from tho Holy Land two magnificent goats taken from Mount Carmcl. They nro splendid beasts, distinguished dis-tinguished from their kind by their black coats, unusuilly thick and soft, and by their ears, which are largo nn I fall like those of a hunting hound. Tho pope has Inspected them personally In their posturo In tho Vatican gardens The other day as ho stood looking at them he said: "How they lirlng biclt to mo the dns of my childhood, when I scrambled nbotit tho hills ot Carpl-ncto Carpl-ncto like tho goats, going In many places where only a wild boy or a goit could gain foothold " These goats nro as yet untried to tho climate of Home, but as they aro hardy animals It Is hocd they will not sutler by tho chango from Palestine. |