, 1870-03-16
A WaK Df<courAcn Of Queen Eliza.
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Here il the 1ltest outbreak Of eccentric

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Queen Elisabeth i5 dead. It doesn't make
Any matter how We got the information. This
Ia none Of cur fght-.his quarrel bstReen tho
AEaociIted Press and its rir11- She died 2G3
gears ago the 24th OF laat month. She sur
rived until the vital spark had fed, and then
abe saw it wss OF no uee resisting the iuBcru.
tah1e decree Of fate, and 40 her unfeuered
soul took tta flight into the mysterious roid,
and ssttled down In that bourne from which
no traveller returns, unleas he has miasion
to jerk chairs around and rap on tables for
the benefit Of mediums and other long haired,
Eild-eyed lunAties.
Queen EGzaoeth Eas vifgin-a ve1gin1, on
sevepty; And get the fire gleauaed IS brightly
as ever In her cteAm-coloTed eye, aud The dali
cate aneen OF her finely tlntod MACON nose
contrasted as forcibfy as in har youth with the
a!abAster Of her brow; and the plugs in her
teeth were just as valuable as when gold
She had no small Yices. She did not sr roke
OF chew OF belong to the society for promotion
of cIuelty to animals. And whom ste swnre
ehe neyer descended TO the vulgatity OF Hor-
ace Gree1ey-Queen Elizabeth didn't. When
the used profanity, she g1vo It with fnish,
an elegance, 9 delicate airy grace, and infused
into 1t = luxurious abandon, and rounded it OF
carefully at the corners, aud dressed it up
with wel-selected poetlcal adjectiyes, 50 that
it sounded like strain from some sweet ain8-
er, lKe come sweet singer strainiDg himself, IN
fact. Ard abe had red hair.
Her ehlgnon wss burglar proof. and ottan
had sunk to real, Wtan the wastern sky waa
f1lled with tender radiance and lanbans Light,
md the bnlhu1 wooad the 1usa in the back
yard, she would plhJ 3 few. notes ,,upon her
harpiHchord Or T7ite : Latin hymn Or an osszy
upon the HARRISON boiler She Was supposed
e1," and Beautiful 6now, n and :" Five O Clock
in t: Morning." But nevertheless abe Was d
very estimaI!a wumAn, and with all her faults
We love her atill-Dettar, indeed, than II sho
were still fou1ing around.
Queen Elizabeth VAS not proud. She al
eveu II she was Queen; and abe Always I'd
it once week, every 6and8y morning, with
her own tooth bruAn., What q Lesson does it
teach to those Who ar q naughty and vain, and
belong to the boA-tont She never forgot that
sheep and he aiikworm wore: hsr III flne Clothes
long bafore sha got then.. She read every
Sunday school book that taught these. facts !.
md ahe- once trod on Sir Walter Ra1eigh'e
cloak to, remind him OF them, because he Was
so get mp With his now fancy cassimeres-- She
aajd upon her daath-bed that Lydia Thompaon
need not learn this 1eesop, because it had. no
moral for those :sho broWsed round IN M
ture's simple ga1b. = -.
Queen Elizabeth was not eorry to die. sho
foreshw that George F. Train WAS coming. to
England, and ahe said to her physicians that
she would prefer the enduring pesce of tho
cold aud silent grave to three weeks OF George
4nd the Aabaus olaims controversy and the
echleBRig- -Holatein question all at the same
time.;- Her last words were "KiH Horace
Graeley before he hsa q chance to write
What I Know About Farming" There was
not q dry eye in that second story front room.
Everybody Was thinking how Impossible 1t wks
to fulfil her dying request, and to escspe go
much misery.
But aho his now gone; she has left Us We
aha1l Bae her no more. Perhaps it Is for the
best. She Wss vigorous WOMAN, and II she
had lived she might have come to America,
might have prznced around here and fogged
us like the very nation- For she was woman
Who followed closely in al the prevailing
Yaabions. And 40 ne are glad she is dead, and
has four tons Of marble planted On her to hold
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