Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-04-01
THEIR LAST WORDS.

worlds Famous Men.
An intensely interesting volume
might DO mado up of The dying words
and speeches Of men whom the world
calls famous, says Onco o Week. They
have all had to pass in their chips like
tho most insignificant of us, and their
final exits from tho great stage havo
been generally edifying and always
characteristic.
GOD be, praised" exclaimed Wolfe,
tho hero of Quebec, on learning that the
French were giving away in every Vi
rcction. 81 die happy" His antagonist,
Montcalm, also received a mortal
wound whilo endeavoring to rally his
mon, and when told that his end was ap-
preaching made answer: $50 much tho
better; shall not live to see the sur
rcnder of Quebec"
81 pray thee, see me up safe, but for
my coming down 1 can shift for my
SELF" remarked Sir Thomas More, OBJ
serving tho weakness of tho scaffold.
81 heard say the executioner was very
good and have little neck" said
Ammo Boleyn, putting her hands about
it and laughing heartily.
Tho unhappy Charles I. expired with
tho word "Remcmbcr'' on his lips, and
tho last words attributed ''Buckshot"
Forster wore mo home rule" while
Rabclais calmly remarked: "Drop the
curtain, tho farce is played out"
With some prcscntiment that they
arc about to dio is the first symptom of
approaching death. Mozart wrote his
requiem under tho conviction that tho
monument he was erecting to his gouius
would provo monument to his own re-
mains. When life was cbbing fast he
called. for the score, and as he unused
over it he said: Ibid 1 not tell you
truly that it was for myself that 1 COM
posed this death chant?" Bcwick, tho
famous wood engravcr, was last en-
ploycd upon representation of 1.-THE old
horse waiting for DEATH" and Hogarth
dclineatcd the death of all things, and
having given it IL last touch, seized his
palette and broke it in pieces, remark
ing: 81 have nnishcd.'
Many remarkable instances may also
be cited in which the dying lips MUIR
muir out the names of friends and the
occupations and recollcctions of past
life. Gocthe's dying lips murmured
something about beautiful woman's
face, and Napolcon's last thoughts were
for tho head of his army, while Disraeli,
some quarter Of an hour before his
death, raised himself a little in his bed
and stretched himself out in the old ia
miliar way that no was won't whom ris-
ing to reply in debate, while his lips
moved in silence.
Do Lagny, the great mathematician,
was asked tho square of twelve whom
he was no longer ablo TO recognize his
frjnn1Q q ia nd nlo, ~
answered: zone hundred and forty
four" No less striking were the last
words of Lord Tenterdon, the famous
English judge. Some time before his
death ne had been dolirious and talked
incoherently, but presently recovering
his composure and raising himsolf from
his pillow he was heard to say in slow
md SOLEMN tonos, as when he used to
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