The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1870-08-12
Death Of Qsseess Eytzx1esls.
ny JoHr QUILL.

make any difference how We got thai
information. This is none Of oul
dght-this quarrel between the asso-
ciated press and it,, rival. We've
received the news and that's enough.
She died two hundred and sixty.sever ID
years ago, the 54th Of last month.
She survived until the vital spark
had fed, and then she saw it Was ei
no use resisting the inscrutable de.
crees Of fate, and so her unfettered
soul took It's flight into the uysterioua
void, and settled down in that bourne
from from which no traveller returns
unless he has mission to jerk chairs
around and rap on tables for the bene.
fit Of mediums and other long haired,
wild-eyed lunatics. s'-3 as1 p R@ I
Queen Elizabeth vas ! virgin-a
vergiu' on seventy-and yet the FIRE
gleamed as brightly as ever in her
eream-colored eye, and the delicate
sheen of her finely tinted maroon
nose contrasted as forcibly as in her
youth with the alabaster Of her brow;
and the plugs in her teeth we're .just
as valuable as when gold was at one
hundred and ffty-six.
She had 10 small vice. She did
not smoke or chew, or belong to the
Society for the promotion Of cruelty
to animals. And when. she swore,
she never descended to the vulgarity
Of Horace Gresley-Queen Eliza beth
didn't. When che used profanity,
she gave it with q finish, an elegance.
ERdelicate airy grace, and infused in-
to it certain luxurious abandon and
rounded it off carefully at the cor.
ners, and dressed it up with well se-
looted poetical adjectives, 30 that it
sounded like a'strain from some sweet
singer-like some sweet singer strain
ing herself, in fact, and she had red
hair.
Her chign on was burglar proof.
And eften in the dim Of twilight Of
evening when the sun had sunk to
rest, when the western sky was FILL
ed with tender radiance and lambent
light, and the bulbul weoed the rose
in the back yard, she would sit, down
and play few notes upon her harp
sichord. or write Latin hymn or an
essay on the Harrison boiler. She
was supposed to be the suthor Of
''Rock Me to Sleep, Mother" and
:" Beautiful Snow" and Five
O'clock in the Morning" But new
ertheless, she was very estimablo
woman, and with all her faults we
love her still--better. indeed than if
she Was fooliny around.
d Queen Elizabeth was not proud.
She always Insisted upon cleaning
her own teeth. even if she was 3
queen; and she always did it once
every week, every Sunday morning
With her own tooth brush. What =
lesson does this teach to those who
are vain and naughty and belong to
the BON toai She never forgot that
she Was mere perishable dust, and
that the sheep and the silk worm wore
her fine clothes long before she got
them. She read every Sunday school
book that taught these facts; and
she once troo on Sir Walter Raleigh's .
cloaE to remind bim Of them, because
he was SO set up with bis new fancy
cassimeres. s5 l@ paszt
Queen Elisabeth was mot sorry to
die. She forssaw y that George Fran
cis Train Was coming to England;
and she said TO her physicians that
she would prefer the enduring peace
Of the cold and silent grave TO three
wosks Of George and Alabams claims
controversy and the achleswig- -Hol-
stein question al st the same time,
Her last words we're, .sKih Hor-
ace Greeley before he has . chance
to write What I Know about Farm.
ing. There VAS not : dry eye in
that second story front room. Ere
rybody was thinking how. impossibls
| Il was to carry out her dying request.
and to escape 50 much misery. 80
But she has gone now; she haa
left us; we see her no moro. Per-
baps il 10 for tho best. She wss Z
vigorous woman and il she had lived
she might have como TO America.
and We might have given her offence.
and she might have pranced around
here asd Aogged us like the very ns'
tion. For she was . woman vho FOL,
lowed olosely in oil the prevailing
fashions. And 90 w are glad she i
dead. and has four tons Of msfhh
planted on her grave TO hold her down
| JEMEaK SL..aD,
On the. ,Rlas7.jage State. )