Connecticut western news., 1890-07-09

Mme Sontag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin when she saw little child leading blind wo- man, and she said: Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading by the handq' And the little child replied: That's my mother; that's Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight" "Give my love to her," said Mime. Sontag, ''and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon"
 The next week in Berlin vast as- semblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Mime. Sontag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steininger's death Mime. Sontag took care of her, and her daughter after her. That was what tie queen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear more thrilling story still Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee heaven. With more than a Son. tags generosity he comes now to meet your need. With more than Sontag's music he comes to plead for thy deliv- erance.
 His Big Gravestone Stalled 25 Horses. Three years ago Henry Eberle, of Frankford, died, and the will which he l left behind him created considerable 1 stir at the time. It provided that the l entire estate of some $16, 900 should be expended in placing over his grave and that of his wife already dead 8 stone which should be four feet thick, GOV ering the entire surface of his burial lot 1 in Cedar Hill cemetery. Deceased had no children, and his will cut off all rel atives and left no Iegacies whatever. ] The strange direction was much talk | ed of at the time of his death, but was gradually lost sight of by the public until on Friday it was revived by the 1 arrival at Bridesburg station of a gran 1 ite stone which was wider than the car l on which it was transported. This stone is said to be the largest ever used in this city for any purpose. It is 17 feet long by il feet wide, ? IA feet thick and weighs thirty tons.
 It was quarried and dressed in Yer mont, and brought to Philadelphia on vessel from which it was taken by a special car and locomotive to Brides
 burg station. On the top of this stone, in order to comply with the directions in the will, another stone of equal
 thickness, but three inches less in
 width, will be placed, the whole mass
 aggregating nearly sixty tons. The
 other stone is now being prepared al
 tic quarries. The contract for the two
 stones placed in position is $10,O00.
 The work of transplanting this huge
 block of granite by land carriage from
 Bridesburg station to Cedar Hill ceme
 tery, one mile distant, was begun yes
 terday A four wheeled truck, weigh
 ing many tons, known as a "catama
 ran," drawn by twenty five horses, wa.
 used. Everything went well until the
 Bristol turnpike was reached and the
 steep rocky hill was to be climbed. The
 twenty-five horses gave up exhausted
 Tackle was rigged to the wagon an6
 passed around the trees, and in thi'
 way at last the top of the hill wa.
 reached. d.-Philadelp Record.