| Show NOTED anniversaries this rills week in march is filled with noted birthdays bit sunday was tile the 43 birthday of f michael Ang anggela gelo lie ile was v as th the great artist of liis ills age as 13 painter sculptor and architect he had no rival in his age lie ile was employed to build a tomb for a pontiff of ills his church allen the splendor of it he be same apparent then it was decided that a chapel should be erected to enclose it out of that thought st peters er s the most magnificent of churches took form ile he had not quite completed it when he died though lie he lived almost ninety deais it was said of him that he diew until ho he could no longer told hold a pencil and carved as long as he be could told hold a tool then with the brush the tints lie wove into the ceiling of the sistine chapal chabol now alter after more than alian four hundred years mingle with and are merged in the halo that surrounds in splendor his brow in the niche of the ages to a profoundly devout soul lie he added the sensitive temperament of tile the aigist ills bis life was devoted to magnifying the religion in which lie he aas as absorbed and with nand and ce and brain lie he unconsciously wrought wi ought out for himself immortality on the same saine day of march seventy nine years ago our general phil 11 sheridan ivas was born lie he too wrought with band and eye and brain lint but in a different way front from angelo HS his I 1 vas nas tile the eye dye that taught caught ii 11 sulphurous ious smoke pi of battle the atal of victory ii etory his the hand that carved arved c his way to where it shone and the pictures lie he painted on the way were lurid enough but the path lie he marked out was the one that led to peace A great soul his grant thought him the equal of the greatest of soldiers and there ahert was no sounder judgment on that point than grants tuesday was the one hundred and thirty fifth anniversary of 0 the birth of commodore isaac hull who ulio on oil the old constitution opened the war of 1812 on the sea and after a great battle captured the famous british frigate guerriere and in that fierce fight ile he gave the inspiration which shone out again from the Kear kearsarge barge oft off cher burg bur in multiplied glory in mobile 1 bay and set the pace in manila bay and off santiago and united linked the name of mobile bay at least with etli gar lepanto and llomis Salo S tuesday was also the birthday of edwin fogrest lo Fo irest about the first bom boin american Amei ican who could give to shakes peares thoughts exact expression through his wednesday was vas tile the sixty filth anni of alexander the present czar lof of russia biliti r friday r i day was bishop Dirke Birke leys one d tenth and fourteenth birthday lie he was greater than lie he seemed to men ito ho was to human thought nhat tile the wheless telegraph to the transportation por tation of thought an advance or all that had gone before friday too was the eighty eighth anniversary of the poet and artist thomas buchanan Gu chanan read and the nine ty second anniversary of the birth of that worden who took the little 1 monitor through the storm to hampton roads dhove the Alerd mac fatally bounded back to her obscure legreat ic le treat and by the same act in elleck sunk all the navies of europe and secured the republic against any foreign interference ter in that war monday next will lie be the hundred and forty third anniversary of one of the most extraordinary of men of our country andrew jackson with his intellectual equipment most men would have lived through life unknown save 13 1 3 a lew few around him and then have 1 cone one back into the silence ile he was not a scholar not an orator lie ho was arbitrary impatient of all restraint quick k to quarrel impracticable and when aroused ungovernable in ills his moods lie he diew up practically rin uncultured on oil the front frontier ler but lie he ii was as a master spirit aiom the first lie he bould race horses fight chickens and gamble arable in rough society I 1 ho 1 0 was per lockly L at homo home lie he was born two years prior to napoleon in welling ton had lie he been born iu in france lie he land would have been a marshal of france and ney would not have been called the bravest of tile the brac had he been born in england he would have helped the lion duke direct waterloo ile he was so brave that no peril could unbalance his steady judgment but tile the attribute that exalted him bim w was as his patriotism the love of country with nith him was nas a grand passion that absolu ed and exalted his life it was the balance wheel or of his judgment and so when the supreme trial came lie he pit put t aside his reckless pursuits consecrated his life to the service of native land and in his age was its foremost do de londer then the past that same patriotism steadied his judgment and gave such direction to public measures that his is one of tile two to souls that liis his party has canonized and whose is always invoked invoiced I 1 when nhen they meet in council the lesson ills his life taught was that lie he who levei discounts nathe land and never falters in duty canles no reproaches with him to disturb ills his final sloop goodwille Good wills weekly |
