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Show COLUMBUS TOOK A TUMBLE. It Was the Last Bay of the California Fall, and He Was All Broke Up. Truth crushed to earth will rise egain, bat there is no such hope for the 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 largo and portly he struck the ground K-ith 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 ex position, but the wind was attracted to him nevertheless. It sought to lift tha long locks that hung over hi3 shoulders, and iu this effort it toppled their big owner from his commanding 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 Bom persons imagined that the memories he cherished overcame him as if he were an animate being. The knowledge that the fair was over and that he was to be taken away to some obscure and strange place broke him all up, thej 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 h finalij broke from the ropes that restrained him, and the fall of Caesar was nothing In comparison to his. The statue wa made of a sort of plaster and was partly part-ly hollow, being devoid of lungs and other internal organs. San Francisco Chronicle. |