Show slow are tho hie mighty fallen I 1 it is a rental remarkable kable and instructive ft fact that tho the career of four of the most renowned characters charac teis that ever lived closed with a violent or m mournful death alexander after looking down from the dizzy heights of his hh ambition upon a conquered world and weeping that there were no more to conquer died of iri intoxication in a scene of debauch or as somo suppose by poison mingled in his wine Il hannibal annibal whose name carried terror to the beat heair t of rome itself after hiving having crossed the alps aud pat to flight the armies of the mistress of the world was waa driven from his hia country and died at ai h last it of poison ad ministered administered by his own hands bands in a foreign land unlamented unla and unwept cerar the conqueror of eight hundred cities and his temples bound with charleta chaplets cha pleta dipped in the blood of a million of his foes was miserably assassinated by those he be considered his nearest friends bonaparte Bun aparto whose mandate kings lul and empe emp roio eroin obeyed after filling t the earth with the terror of his hia rame came closed his days dayo in lonely banishment upon a bari leu on lock in the midst of thu the atlantic ocean such the four men wl who io way may be c considered representatives of all whom the voiad call great reat and such auch their end in intoxication toxic stion or poison suicide murdered by friends lon lonely ely exile esile I 1 |