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Show COLUMtJUS TOOK A TUMSLfc. Vt TTas the I-ast Day of the California Fftli. and lie Was All Broke Cp. !!Tuth crushed to earth will rist gain, 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 1C o'clock in the forenoon, and as he was large and portly he struck the ground with 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 exposition, ex-position, but the wind was attracted to him nevertheless. It sought to lift the long locks that hung over his shoulders, agd in this effort it toppled their big. -w .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 lay that was practically the last of the fair. Ho had seen the glories of the exposition come and go, and somi 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 stransre T)lac broke him all up, they ; 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 he finally broke from the ropes that restrained him, and the fall of Ciesar 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 Franciscc Chronicle. Xn the new life which followed he devoted himself with absorbing energy to his business interests. He becama rich in time. Ten thousand cattle on the Texas ranges bore his brand. A few years ago he was driving from his ranch in a heavy road wagon to town. The front wheels jolted down into a deep rut Allison was pitched headforemost headfore-most to the ground. His neck was broken. bro-ken. The team jogged on into the distance dis-tance and left him lying there dead and alone upon the prairie." Kansas City Times. |