Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-27

France q pretender-Jerome Bonaparte
| The Sandwich Islands buried King-Kala-
kaua-and Prince Consort, John o. Doni-
mis-. Samoa, the "Isles of the Navigators,' u
1 had several Kings at the beginning of '91,
but will not have SO many to begin with in
| 1872, one having died April %. or the lesser
lights are Prince Sanjo, the distinguished
Japanese statesman and Keeper of the Royal
Seal; Prince Dolgouroff, and Grand Duke
Nicholas of Russia, and Grand Duchesses
Leuchtenberg and Mecklenberg-Schwer of
the German principalities.
What England Has Lost.
In the way of common fry nobflity-so to
speak, for the sake of distinction-England
has suffered terribly. She has lost four
Dukes-Bedford, Cleveland, Somerset and
Devonshire and ten Earls-Albemarle,
Beauchamp, Caithness, Clonmel, Dartmouth,
Devon, Granville, Norfolk, Portsmouth and
Wicklow. In fact, England has been very
unfortunate in almost every field during the
past year, no less than II of her most dis
tinguished statesmen, IL divines the same
literary celebrities, 2 musicians journal
lists and 2l of the nobility having passed
away. A curious fact may be noticed, that
notTithstanding this heavy mortality not
mote, has died. while in France, country
in which royalty has been considered OBJ
solete for 20 years past, no less than two Of
the old and new pretenders to the throne
have passed away. Another strange fact Is
that in the United States a country prac-
tically without a military force, 10 distin-
guished soldiers have departed from earth
within the year. and OF these Sherman and
Johnston may be considered as among the
first rank of military leaders of this or any
other time. The Germans have lost but
couple of their eminent soldiers out of q
force that embraces good percentage of the
population of tho nation but as one hap
pens to be the grand old strategist Won
Moltke, they may be excused for mourning
MIN as they would a host.
january Was a Fatal Month
January seems to have been the most un-
lucky month of the year, no less than II
eminent personages passing away during its
81 days, among the number being Window,
Kinglake, Baron Haussman, the famous
French engineer, King Ealakaua and Prince
Baldwin. February comes next with II and
October, third, with 9. Beautiful May the
month of returning birds and budding
blossoms, seems to have been the kindest of
all the twelve cycles to us poor mortals, but
four individuals of consequence dying.
The letter which some persons think to
have some special import when IL comes to
names, plays quite part, as usual,
in the past year. This matter was explained
in q recent issue of THE DISPATCH and it is
hardly necessary to go over the ground
again, but for those interested it may be
well to recfte the names of some of the most
prominent dead BIS. There are about so on
the list but the most important are Boulan-
ger, Balmaceda, BlavatsHy, Barnum, Bar
rett, Bonaparte (Jerome), Bradlaugh, BAN
croft, Boisg obey and Bratiano.
1t may be confidently asserted that in its |
fatality, the year 1891 will long be remem-
bered as the most remarkable of our time, |
if MT in history. If the illustrious men of |
ourepoch should continue to die off at the |
same rate for any length of time. in very |
few years we would have no such thing as |
really great men, that is, If the present de- |
velopment of them was not materially IN
creased to overcome the deficiency.
A word as to the great unheard Of" |
Death may love "a shining mark" but |
his attentions are as impartially distributed |
among the meek and the lowly. When the
time comes, the ruler and the ruled, the |
leader and the follower must bow to the un-
seen commander and mingle with the great
crowd of all conditions and degrees, that
marches into tho land that lies |
Beyond. As Bryant so grandly tells us:
Thou shalt lie down
With patriarchs of the infant world with |
kings,
The powerful of the earth,-the wise, the
good,
Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past,
ALI in one mighty sepulchre.
G. W. KAUFMAN.