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Show III t3hc Weetjy I I -Panorama. - j Huntington Mausoleum. Nearly twelve yeorB ago in New York, Mr. Huntington began to bull the tomb In which his body will repose. re-pose. ., No , building In the world can-compare can-compare ;Wi.th this tomb in strength, massiveness" and durability. , Each tier of the steps in the fifty feetof sol d rock from the roadway to the door of the mausoleum is hewn from -a Single forty-ton stone. Its foundation Is sixteen six-teen feet underground. The ' mausoleum, mauso-leum, is -forty-two feet long, twenty-eight- feet wide and twentyfour fact high. . The gates-are of bronze and the interior is of Italian marble. , There are sixteen catacombs. In the - strue- WHERE HIS.' BODY WILL, REPOSE, ture there is p.ot a stone weighing less than eighteen'-.tons. Over the door in severe letter is the ' single ward "Huntington.)' . . . .-j, :' ' - Amongirt,he officers volunteetfey for' active iSl-Wc in the far east is Prince-Jaime Prince-Jaime d$, Jjgiirbon, only son ffriffheir ' of th. Spanish .pretender, Don Carlos.-' He isf:a cornist;in the Grodfteo -Dragoon 8uffe4i tjixned al Warsay.' and will go -with -fiiV-'reglment td Port Arthur. He has 4 commercial interest in the far east, being part dwnet of a large steamship named the tfllia, trading trad-ing between Odessa and Russian China. 1 "Reference the -Oid. ;, Bow -low the head, boy; do reverence to tfie old man Once like you, the vicissitudes of life have silvered the hair and changed the round merry face to the worn visage before you. Once that heart beat with aspirations coequal co-equal to any that you have felt; aspirations aspira-tions crushed by disappointment a yours are perhaps destined to be. Once that form stalked proudly through the . gay scenes of pleasure, the beau Heal j of grace; now the hand of time that withers- the flowers- of yesterday has warped that figure and destroyed the noble carriage. Once at your age, he possessed the thousand thoughts that pass through your brain, now wishing to accomplish deeds equal to a nook in fame; anon imagining; life a dream that the sooner he awoke: from the better. But he has livad the dream very near through. The time to awaken is very near at hand; yet his eye ever kindles at old deeds of daring, and the hand takes a firmer grasp of the staff. Bow lowj the head,. ioy, as you would in your old age, be reverenced. " Robert Planquette, author of that tuneful opera "The Chimes of Normandy," Nor-mandy," is to have unique honor bestowed be-stowed upon him. :The new. chime of bells is about to be rung at the village church in Cornevllle, and the leading bell bears this inscription: "I have caused Normandy to be sung all over the world." The French title of the opera, it will be remembered, is "Lea ' Cloches de Corneville." , Illness of K. C. Ttufi. R. G. Dun, the financial statistician and commercial intelligencer, is ill at his summer home, near Narragansett it! rier. Mr. uun is the principal member mem-ber of the famous mercantile agency bearing his name. He has been asso--elated with the concern since 1851. In 1854 he was admitted ad-mitted to membership member-ship in the firm. V. V n Q Dun and in 1859 he pur-'- chased the entire -interest Since that time the axency-,basiattained axency-,basiattained world-wide renown, and .its growth 'and Importance were largely jlueito the .individual effort and genius for organization pertaining to-its prin-.cipaj prin-.cipaj owrier. Mr. Dun was born at .Chiljicothef Ohio, in 1826 and began life is an errand boy in a country store .with a salary of $2 a week. -; ' Mrs. Laura A. Alderman of Harley, Turner County, S. D., is said to own one of the largest orchards in the country. coun-try. . It consists of 150 acres on which are planted 8,000 trees, besides 1,000 currant bushes, 1,000 gooseberry bush-as, bush-as, and 600 grapevines. Mr. Constantlne Ionldeo, a Greek merchant, who died recently at Brighton, Brigh-ton, bequeathed his extensive art collections col-lections to the British nation. |