The Osceola times., 1876-04-08
THE BRITISH DEAD.
! ,hn Paul Asns ~ the Tomss or wsst
minister Abbey.

minister Abbey.
John Paul writes from London TO the
New York Tribune: do not remember
who il is that defines glory as being killed
in battle and having ones name mis-
spelled in the newspapers. Worse still
TO have it miss lied on a monument!
Bng6eld, and not Bringfeld, as the in
scription has il, was the name of the gall
liant colonel:
"Eauerry to his Royal Highnesse
Prince George of Denmark, aidc-,le-camp
and gentleman of the Horse TO his Grace
We Duke of Marlborough Eye victorious
general of her majesty's forces beyond ye
sea- who, while he was Remounting his
Lord, upon fresh Horse, his former
fayling under him, had his head fatally
shott by Cannon Ball in yc Battell Of
Ramelics on Wednesday yc 18th day Of
May in ye year of our Lord l7O6 and OF
his Age 60"
1t may please the Smiths the world
over to know that the Right Honorable
Anne, countess dowager of Clanrickard,
was once Smith-"eldest daughter of
John Smith, ESQ.," even, who has
beautiful monument all TO himself over
in the south aisle.
Sir Issac Newton's monument occupies
a left compartment of the organ-screen-
that of Stanhope occupying another ON
the right, in the nave. The philosopher
is represented incumbent, slightly raised
on one arm, as he may have lain under
the tree when watching the fall of the
apple which-if there be anything in the
popular account OF the discovery of grav-
itati0n-was indeed "the fruit OF the
tree of knowledge" All the devices on
the monument do not please me, illustra-
tive though they are meant to he OF his
discoveries and achievements. Weighing
the sun by a steel-yard strikes me as
neither bold" nor striking" That he
never did, and what he really did was
much more difficult. He got at the
heavenly bodies without stairs, and
weighed them in hand without the aid
of balances! No feeling OF levity comes
o,er you rs you stand by the grave OF
him who discovered the law of gravity.
And the grave is Immediately In front of
the monument, a conspicuous spot, re-
peatedly refused to different nOblemen,
who had asked for it. On the stone
above is written Hic depositum quod
mortale fuit Isaaci Newtoni." Near to
Ncwton's grave lie two Scotsmen, Robert
Stephenson-to whose memory window
of stained glass has lately been given;
and Colin Campbell Lord Clyde. And
vet another Scot, who went where en-
gineering has not 10 this period pene-
trated, and carried peace into Africa
further than Clyde did war into India,
rests near. Brought by faithful hands
over land and sea" after years of weary
travel, undertaken to "evangelize the ma.
tive races, to explore the undiscovered
secrets, TO abolish the desolating slave
trade Of central Africa" David Living
stone, missionary, traveller, philanthroP-
ist," sleeps beneath this black marble
slab; his epitaph closes with the last
words he wrote-a quotation from his
Master: "Other sheep have which are
not of this fold; them also ! must bring,
and they shall hear my voice."
The accompanying Latin verses from
Lucan, though written TO describe the
desire Of Julius Cesar to penetrate one
vail which then, as now, hung over the
sources of the Nile, accurately embodies
the aspirations of the later Livingstone :
$50 great is my love of truth that
there is nothing | would rather know
than the causes of the river that have
laid hid through 20 many ages"
This insignificant tablet, whercon a
simple name and dates only are written,
is TO Henry Wharton, an eminent thee
logian, who died in 1919, age 3l-the
most voluminous writer of his years in
the world. SO it goes. lie who writes
the most is the least written about.
The monument to the "most valuable
memory of William Congrcve, "sctt
up by Henrietta, Dutchcss of Mari
borough, as mark how dearly she re-
members the happiness and honor she
enjoyed in the sincere friendship OF SC
worthy and honest man." caused Q
good deal of talk at one time. Sarah
mother of Henrietta, uncompromisinl
dowager that she was, made no bones o
letting off her opinion of it. Happi
ness, perhaps honor she can not say
There was no need of pcrpetuating sucf
scandal in stone, and considering thu
righteousness of the alliance, the in
scription had more appropriately beer
written in brass.
The first wife of Sir Samuel Marlant
has two inscriptions on her back, one II
Hebrew, another for the benefit, Proba
bly, of those who do not read Hebrew
nuently-in Greek. Not to be partial
the same widowcr few years after fire
both barrels Of his Tor some one else's
erudition over n second wife (who ha
been cleverly brought to bay near by)
giving the parting shots this time II
Hebrew and Ethiopic. All may not b'
upin Hebrew, he reasoned, perhaps; som'
NAV not read Greek, but surely none cal
be ignorant of Ethiopic.
Now YOU see our country on the wall
for the first time. The province of Mas
sachusetts bay erects, by order of genera
court, memorial TO Lord Howe, wh'
fell on the march to Ticonderoga in 1858
Later in the century this same Massa
chusetts, then state, was un'ortubatel,
as we'll rs unwisely called upon to furnisl
more material for monuments. And a re
miniscence of our great struggle with tn
mother country we find in this monu
nent to Andre, "beloved and esteeme
by The army in which he served and Ii
mcnted even by his foes" 1t has
mournfpl interest to many, for all q