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Show rrtmler Crlpl. Crisp!, intleed. Is one of the "grand old men" w ho have In recent re-cent ears had so large a share in directing the destinies oT Kuropean States. He lias paed his three-seore-and-tenth year, and yet his physical and mental ponert seem undiminished. He holds his own fas stoutly against his antagonists as when he once fought the myrmidons of the execrable Bomba under the deep blue skies of Sicily. For, like Car loll and many other deputies, Cn-pl wa one of thegallantsoldler of the war of Italian deliverance. Bom In Sicily in 1S19. he came of that famous Gneeo-Itoman stock which contributed many a fiery spirit to theSouthernltalian revolution. revolu-tion. '-The Sicilian of the Gncco-Itoman Gncco-Itoman race," says a recent writer, "is silent, susplciouv wise, faithful. uimMe to forget either a good er evil deed without having rewarded or avenged; notta'lly moved from hbpurpo-c, and always armed with infallible logic. Full of boundless self-confluence, he iiates cowardice and Indolence; will u-ssany nieans tn obtain a desirable end; is a faith-Ail faith-Ail friend, aud a terrible, irreconcilable irreconcil-able but honest enemy, and more inclined to action than to words." This might serve very well as the description of the character of Cri'pi himself, a true son cf that remarkable remark-able race. Frwit IjtuBe'i 1'cjtu'tir Monthly for Hay. |