Connecticut western news., 1890-04-02
LAST WORDS OF GREAT MEN,

How Many of Them Were Actually Spoken
 By Their Reputed Authors?
 An intensely interesting volume might be made up of the dying words and speeches of men whom the world calls famous Their final exits from the great stage have been generally edifying and always characteristic.
 God be praised" exclaimed Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, on learning that the French were giving way in every direction, 1T die happy His antago- mist, Montcalm, also received mortal wound while endeavoring to rally his men, and when told that his end was approaching made answer: So much the better; I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec" /"
 II pray thee, see me up safe, but for the coming down can shift for my self" remarked Sir Thomas More, ob serving the weakness of Ele scaHold.
 1T heard say the executioner was very good, and I have little neck, :" said Anne Boleyn, putting her hands about it and laughing heartily.
 The unhappy Charles expired with the word Remember on his lips, and the last words attributed "Buckshot"
 
 Rabelais calmly remarked: 'Drop the curtain, the farce is played out.
 With some.a presentlment that they are about to die is the first symptoms of approaching death. Mozart wrote his requiem under the conviction that the monument he was erecting to his genius would prove a monument to his own remains. When life was ebb- ing fast he called for the score, and as he unused over it, he said: 'Did l not tell you truly that it was for my self that composed this death chant2" Bewick, the famous wood engraver, was last employed upon representa- ton of 'The old horse waiting for death," and Hogarth delineated the death of all things, and having given it last touch, seized his palette and broke it in pieces, remarking: Il have finished.'
 Many remarkable instances may also be cited in which the dying lips murmur out the names of friends and the occupations and recollections of past life. Goethe's dying lips mur- mured something about a beautiful woman's face, and Napoleon's last thoughts were for the head of the army, while Disraeli, some quarter of an hour before his death, raised him. self little in his bed, and stretched himself out in the old familiar way that he was wont when rising to reply in debate, while his lips moved in silence ... -.... De Lagny, the great mathematician, was asked the square of twelve when he was no longer able to recognize his friendsabout his bed and mechanically answered "144." No less striking were the last words of Lord Tenterden, the famous English judge. Some time before his death he had been delirious and talking incoherently, but present. ly. recovering his composure and rais- ing himself from his pillow, he was heard to say, in slow and solemn tones, as when he used to conclude hil summing up in cases of great import ance: And now, gentlemen of the jury, you will consider your verdict.
 Sometimes the strained thread breaks with sudden snap. It was in this way that Boileau expired from the effects of dropsy A friend entered the room where he was sitting, ano the poet, in one and the same breath bid him hail and farewell. "Gooe day and adieu,'' said he; ''it will be { very long adieu," and instantly ex pired.-Once a Week.
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