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Show On the Death of Daizac. Thero can bo but austere and serious seri-ous thoughts In all hearts when a sublime spirit makes Its majestic en- -trance Into another life, whon one or thoso beings wlio have long soared above the crowd on tho vlslbla wings ot genius, spreading 'all at onco other wings which wu did not see, plunges swiftly Into tho unknown. No, it Is not tho unknown; no, It Is not night, It Is light. It la pot tho end, It Is tho beginning! It Is not extinction, It Is eternity. Is It not true, such tombs as this demonstrate demon-strate Immortality? In the presence ot the Illustrious dead wo feci more distinctly tho divine destiny or that Intelligence which traverses tho earth to suffer and to purify Itseir which we call m .Victor Hugo. |