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Show i where but at Nice. The remains of the great orator will now, however, probably prob-ably soon bo removed to Pere la Chaise, and grand funeral honors be given them a second time, France still gets on with-; with-; out Oauibetta, but his death caused a void which is yet unfilled. Cor. London News. Gumbnttu's Fntlist-. M. Oauibetta, the father of the great French statesman, after suffering loug from cancer in tbe stomach, died lately iu his seventy -si.tt ti year. Ho was quite uneducated, but was shrewd and gentle mannered, with much half hidden fire and mother wit. Ho traveled a great deal as an itinerant dealer when he was young, and even pushed as far ns Turkey and Egypt. Though of simple ways ho was not nt all vulgar. Ho was much opposed to his son's choice of a profession, profes-sion, which was that of a professor of law and not, as his father wished, that of grocer in a country town. Old M. Oauibetta was a Oenoeso. Ho had a distinctly Italian physiognomy. The eyes remasied black and bright to the end, but the face took a yellow waxen tinge. His hair was long and thick ami quite white, and his beard, shaved at the chin, formed a kind of col- ! lar under tho throat. Daily, with his ; head erect, he visited the graves of his wife and son in tho cemetery at Nice to lay flowers on them." His housekeeper was an oltl Cahors servant, Miette, who i nursed him in his long illness with de- ! votion. nis daughter. Mine. Leris, ar- i rived at Nice just as he had died. M. ' G.imlwtta would not suffer his son to be juried during his tnvu lifetime any- |