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Show COLUMBUS TOOK A TUMBLE. It Was the Last Day of the California Fall, and. lie Was All Broke Vp. Truth crushed to earth will rise-Again, rise-Again, but there is no such hope for thi statue of Columbus at the fair. It lay on the ground in the grand court recently recent-ly shattered to a thousand piece. Columbus Co-lumbus came off his perch about lc o'clock in the forenoon, and as he was large and portly he struck the ground with a dull thud. His right leg clung to the pedestal, the indications being that that limb had been pulled, the fracture being committed at the knee. Columbus wore no whiskers at the exposition, ex-position, but the wind was attracted to 1 him nevertheless. It sought to lift the long locks that hung over his shoulder?, and in this effort it toppled their big owner from his confmanding elevation in the valley of the court People who are affected by coincidences did not fail to comment on his passing way on the day that was practically the last of the fair. He had seen the glories of the exposition come and go, and some persons imagined that the memories he cherished overcame him as if he were an animate being. The knowledge that tho fair was over and that he was to be taken away to some obscure and strange place broke him all up, they said. He had been ailing for several days. When it was evident by the inclination in-clination of his head that he was unbalanced, unbal-anced, measures were taken to keep him from injuring himself, but he finally broke from the ropes that restrained him, and the fall of Cujsar was nothing In comparison to his. The statue wav made of a eort of plaster and was partly part-ly hollow, being devoid of lungs and other internal organs. Fan Francisco Chronicle. |