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Show Signal Anniversaries THE present week Is filled with the anniversaries anniver-saries of great souls. Sunday last was the one hundredth anniversary o the birth of Thomas Hood, who, despite the tragic period in which he lived, filled all the little world around him with the sunshine' of his genius and humor. On the same day of the month twelve years later, Margaret Fuller Ossoll, the female Emerson Emer-son of America, who, delicate woman that she was, wrote like a man; yes, as only one man in a million can. v Monday last was the one hundred and six teenth anniversary of the birth of Dr. Edward Hitchcock, tJhe geologist and scholar, and on the same day two years later Silas Wright was born, who was the contemporary of Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and by many held as a greater statesman than either of the others. The 24th, too, was the anniversary the 93rd of Emanuel Leutze, the great Gerhan painter. His "Western Emigration" and "Washington Crossing the Delaware" are his monuments in America. Of course every one knows that the good and great Queen Victoria was born on May 24tih. Then on the 25th Ralph Waldo Emerson made the date famous by being born on that day one hundred and six years ago, one of the really regal souls. On the 2Gth the great preacher Joseph Stevens Stev-ens Buckminster was bora in 1784. The 2Gth has its trophies. It is the lG7th anniversary an-niversary of the birth of Nathaniel Green, the greatest general of the Revolutionary war. On the same day one hundred and thirteen years ago old Cornelius Vanderbilt was born, the founder of the Vanderbilt dynasty, the man who set the pace for New York financiers, the boatman on North river when a boy, the steamship steam-ship builder later, and later still the first real American railroad king one of "the rael auld stock." Hats off for the 27th. It is Julia Ward Howe's birthday. This year the 90th. The Grand Army of the Republic first caught its perfect step as they sung her "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The 28th is ricn in anniversaries. John Sheator, the engineer, Who constructed the harbor har-bor of Ramsyote; who built the canal from the Clyde to the Forth and Eddystone lighthouse. Born in 1724; died in 1792. The 28th, too, was the anniversary tho 150th of the birth of the great William Pitt, by many Englishmen held as Uhelr greatest statesman. states-man. The 28th was,, likewise the natal day of Thomas Moore. Every Irishman should sing "Tara's Hall" on his birthday. Ihe 28th is the 102nd anniversary of the birth of Louis Agassiz and the 89th of James Eads, one of the very greatest of American engineers. His two greatest achievements were tSio building build-ing of the St. Louis bridge and the putting in of the jetties at one of the mouths of the Mississippi. Mis-sissippi. This 29th of May was the anniversary of Charles n of England, a hereditary king, and of Patrick Henry, a natural born king among men. Has any week in the year such a record? Kings and queens; statesmen and soldiers; poets and orators; marvelous engineers and men of affairs that have rung the world. Surely there are many graves that should be banked with flowers tomorrow. |