Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-12
Death OF English Kings ana
Queens.

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Death OF English Kings ana
Queens.
William the eonquerer died irom cnor.
nous drink, and from the violence Of his
passions,
William Rufus died the death of the
the poor stays that he hunted.
Henry the First died of gluttony.
Henry the Second died of broken
heart, occaSioncd by the death of his chill
drcn.
Richard Cuur de Lion died like the
animal from which his heart was named,
by an arrow from the bow Of an archer.
Henry the Third is said To have died
natural death
Edward the first is likewise said TO have
died of natural sickness sickness
which it would puzzle all the college phys
icians TO denominate.
! Edward the second was most barharous-
! ly and inleGenilY Numbered l4y -rHfliaHs
employed by his own mother and her par
amour.
Edward the Third died Of dotage and
Richard the Second of starvation, the very
reverse of George the Fourth.
Henry the Fifth is said To have died Of
fits caused by uneasiness," and uncasi-
ness IN palaces in those times was very
common complaint.
Henry the Sixth died in prison, 10y
means then known only to his Tailor, and
| known now onty to Heaven.
Edward the Fifth was strnnpltd in the
tower by his uncle, Richard the Third
Richard the Third was Killed in bat
( tie.
Henry the Seventh wasted away as a
miSer ought 10 do.
Henry the Eighth died Of oarbunclcs,
lat and furious, while Edward the Sixth
died of a decline,
Queen Mary is said 10 have died Of a
broken heart, whereas she died of sur
felt from eating too many black buildings.
I Old Queen Bess is said To have died
from melancholy for having sacrificed
Essex TO his enemies-her private charac-
ter not being above suspicion.
James the First died of drinking and
of the effects of a nameleSs vice.
Charles the First died righteous death
ON the scaifold, and Charles the Second
died suddenly, it is said, of appoplexy.
William the Third died from conSump-
tive habits Of the body, and from the
stumbling Of his horse,
Queen Anne died from her attachment
to strong water" or, in other words, from
drunkenness, which the physicians polite
y eallel dran---
George the First died of drunkenness.
which his physicians politely called an
appopletic fit.
George the Second died of a rupture of
the heart, which the periodicals of that
day called q visitation of God 1t is the
only instance in which God ever touched
his heart
George the Third died as he lived--a
mad-man. Throughout his life he was Mt
least consistent monarch.
George the Fourth died Of gluttouy and
drunkenness.
William the Fourth died amid the sym
pathies Of his friends.
Is Ny dear, what shall We get for
dinner to-day Z" Zone of your smiles. 8"
replied the husband; 81 can dine on that
any day" But can't" said the wife
Then take this" said he giving her a
kiss and departing for his office. He re-
turned to dinner This is excellent, =
said he, what did you pay for it =. What
you give me this morning, said She. "The
deuce you did :" said he, Then You shall
have market money the rest Of the time.
..zs3@'I am firm believer" says Dr.
Cuyler, Sin the moral and spiritual inhu-
ence of an open fire To make home at
tractiye, there must be somewhere in the
house common rendezvous: and that
ought 10 present more radiant attraction
than a black hole in the floor, through
which hot air pours forth from subtcrra-
mean furnace Men will fight for their
affairs and their fircsides but what orator
ever invoked burst OF patriotism in be.
half OF steampipcs and and registers
never cease to be thankful that | was
brought up beside the hickory fire of q
rural farmhouse
IS Minnesota lad four post-nfaeS in
1858. 1t has now five hundred and thir-
ty-eight,
90 4 clergyman going to mi,erly
old lady to beg for a worthy object, found
himself refused on the ground of poverty
Feigning himself much interested in her
story, he expressed great surprise thereat,
and said Il had not thought YOU in
such want = and then taking out some
money he said, Here Is something that
will do for the present purpose; when
call again will give you more" The
old lady gave him good round sum tC
show him that she did not mean She wa,
paupcr
- An old gentleman in Arkansas re-
Gently presented himself for registration
with his two sons, and the eldest of the
latter was asked by the clerk if he could
write. NO, sir" chimed in the old man
Il am happy to say my sons cannot write
When | was boy my, parents sent me tt
school, and after ! had got little start il
the world endorsed a note for a man
and it cost me all my property | ther
made up my mind that no child of mine
should learn to write
- Abijah Hunt, an old resident o
Williamsbnrgh will be remembered by
many of the other residents of Hampshir,
! County for his quaintness and love of {
joke. On one occasion he went to Boston
and at the hotel at dinner inquired fol
chicken, which proved to be remarkably
tough ,whereupon the old gentleman asked
the landlady where the fowl came from
She knew her customer and replied tina
sit came from WILLIAMSBURG" "lmpossi
} BILE !" said Mr.. Hunt, for the town hasn
been incorporated over forty years ="