Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-06
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The disappointment and humiliation
supposed, somewhat jocularly, to be the
sensations of that public character, who
mistaken report of his death,
has opportunity to read the worlds post
mortem opinion of his merits III the
newspapers, are really challenged hat
rarely HI the premature or other obitu-
ary tribute of the period. On the con-
trary, the average tribute of such final
tIibute is SO softened and, AS it were, ell
deared to critical contemplation by the
ordeal of the grave that all censorious-
ness is lost in an instinct of generosity,
and his VIRTUES are imagnified and fanlts
condolied. Thus the respectable: per-
sOnage who, by false mOrtnary rumor,
is enabled to read or hear his obituary
in advance of its time can seldom find
much therein to cost him humility or
chagrip. There certainly are eXcep-
tional instances, however of rather hard
hearted honesty of expression concern
ing the lately departed, even though the
latter's maifactions may have been only
of the mildest description, and his other
wise harmless traits conceded. In such
cases-and to the credit of human ma
ture be it said, they are rare--the criti-
ciZed individual who survives his sup
Positions death to become aware of the
criticism may possibly discover some-
thing therein to hurt his vanity griev-
ously, if not to Instruct him in the way
of averting commentary when his time
actually comes. In Memphis, according
| to the Audtanche OF that city, Il gentle
man whose graveSt errors are those of a
too sentimental temperament, has, by a
| combination of circumstances erroneous-
ly supposed TO be fatal, experienced the
nloernfhf privilege af Hearing exactly
how disparagingly his most intimate AS
sOciates would discourse of him around
his tomb, and is said to have become
quite low-spirited in consequence. An
apotJecary. just past the agile slender
ness and airy chucklehood Of youth,
with much forehead, retreating slightly
in the Mansard style, and fiOrid hair as
sumipg poetic stangles over acranial
spaces otherwise sterile, this gentleman
has signalized his social career ut a Sc
lect clerkly boarding-house ON Monroe
street by contracting hopeless passions
for ladies patronizing the mansioli from
time to time, and becoming morbidly
suicidal from time TO time, rs his de-
vOtiOn was deemed too humorous
for serious consideration. AS with thu
|. Youngest Gentleman in the TOugcrs es
t,lblisiinent of "Martin Chuzziewit.' ,
all the other masculine boarders in hi
home have been his rocks-ahead in life
continually depreciating his intellectual
, superiority, waxing intolerably conn
5 over his successive martyrtloms to til
2 tender emotion, and feigning heartles
3 incre,lnlity of his occasionally avowe,
disposition to coerce solace from the 81
3 lent tomb. This, too, when twice with
I in Il year his doleful groans in the ldea
] of night have called all the other occu
tPants of the mansion to his desolat
e Observation-Disclosures to find him mOanin
t his life away under baneful drugs be
e cause s'she" had.snnbbed him, and ap
4 ply fiasty doctors and stomach pumps 70
9 the preservation of his blighted exi;