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VI o ms works, and 1t was not difficult TO prove
| no..'a 60. !. that he had Tor Years maintained the
| oIeeo opihion, which had drawn him into
80 MANY conflicts, and which he had now i'm
li'r r,pe oiu age forgotten. Look vou.' said he
utePy anecteu while our own eyes were filed
with tears, ana we were unable 10 inter a
word of comfort, look you, thus does n m,n
become child
Notwithst lnding this, he showed the sama
interest as before in thorough scientific abors
in useful inventions and important discover
lee. He stood too high to envy the work Of
any stranger. He wrote TO Emil Schlagiut-
welt in Asia: "Your brothers were in Thibet
on the slope OF the Ibi-Gamin, 22,2j9 English
feet igh, therefore not merely higher than
Boussingault and [ on Cnimborazo, but 87
English feet higher than this mOuntatn."-
humboldt reached height OF 1926 Eng
lish ieet upon the slopes of the Chimborazo
on the 23d of June, lS02-at that time the
greatest height ever reached by man,
LAST DAYS.
During the last year Of his life Humboldt
suffered severely from peculiar kind OF ma
rasmus, namely violent itching. Only tenn
porary relief could be gained from all the
means employed to cure the painful disease
He seldom spoke OF his suffering himself;
when anybody asked HIM about the state OF
his health, he usually said, "Je SQUIRE, mais
u
was about to return home after having taken
dinner with Frau Won Bulow, where he had
good appetite and had enjoyed himself great
ly, he said, with painful smile, "When get
home begins my bliss; I scratch myself" In
his very last days his couutenance. 10 which
expression had previously been given by bis
intellectual eyes and animated movements,
lost all color, and took on the appearance of a
wax figure. A surprising tullness Of snow
white, long shining haT upon his venerable
head very well became HIM. Hearing and
sight remained good to the last. He wore
spectacleS only when reading his own writing.
For many years before his death Hunbodt
seen in the public places OF amusement In
society, into which he frequently entered
when young he never PLAY ed al cards. He
smoked only at exceptional times, for in
stance, when in the tropics. hoping thus to
drive away the mosquitoes. Even in his
younger years smoking gave him no pleasure.
He was never addicted to snuff taking
Though he loved TO converse with intcnectu-
al, educated ladies, and found great pleasure
In their society, none were ever aoie to make
lasting impression upon his heart. He was
never married, and when spoken to on the
SUBJECT he was accustomed to say, 81 have
found no time for it,"
In the last week of April 1859, alarming
symptoms set in and his weakness incre lse1
rom DAY to day. After short struggle he
died calmly. on the 9Th OF May, 1859, about
three O'Clock in the afternoon. HIS earthly
remains rep'se in the Humboldt family vault
at Tege!, about six miles from Berlin. A sim
pie marble tablet over the head oil the great
dead contains his name, the day of his birth
and death. The originally cherished idea OF
placing the following lines upon his grave
never came to fulflment:
Du, der Du allies erforscht, was bewegt sich auf
Erd' und in Hmmel,
Stesst in die tiefe Gruft weter zu forschen hinab.
J.J.P.