Show joe blackster Blank ster in his farewell speech at west avest point recently general sherman recalled many amusing and some pathetic aphetic reminiscences of his college fife life in that institution he related anecdotes and gave descriptions of quite bite a number of his old comrades and friends joe blackster Blank ster was a person to whom the general was much attached and of whom he thus spoke in his address there was old joe blackster Blank ster who dime came from ohio in we jve called him 1 im the big man from ohio lie ile measured n a yard across the shoulders was six feet five inches high and and weighed pounds lie no 10 shoes and paid shoemakers double price rice for making them in the spring 0 af pf of 1840 his father fell ill and ho lie wea went home in his cadet clothes not haying baying time to get others at home he lie attended a political meeting where a speaker made an attack on the grov government ern ment and spoke of the NI wasp asp pires irea at their military school on the hudson joe airoso in his might and eaid said im one of phoso wasp vampires pires the speaker was confused and the crowd cheered and eaid said if this is a sample odthe of alie vampires pires give us more poor J joe ho lie was afterward struck by lightning 1 it lulng and killed in florida I 1 wish every cadet had a soul like Blank blackster ster |