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ic East, r, pur-nia and way to I other r 18,000tertalo-ter, at-i.ppmr■ in hisigs amideeerv-we be-evar heJ\ Wilier 5th. s, Is Unto the nils toconstl-Asaem-lleense•elersxlersofobligeE4mmIs Lewis.From an article In the Chicago Timet we extract the following re-fan tin* the sister of our townsman, Samuel W. Law-is •‘•Miss Edmonia Lewis’ colossal statue ot ‘Cleopatra Dying' is on exhibition in the •art annex’ of the southeastern portion of the Exposition building. The visitor will find his attention for a moment divided between the marvelous work In the finest of white Carrara, and the sculptor, who is near by It, black as ebony, short, young, dressed with the careless Indifference ofher profession.-Xo contrast could possibly be greaterthan that between tlie statue and iu maker • the one colossal, the otlier exceptionally short; the one pure white, the other deep black; the one tj pifylng with riorr. power and majesty, not only the daughter of tlie Ptolemies, the last Queen of Egy pt, »ho almost became Queen of the Roman Empire, but expressing at the fmme time the loftiest power ol creative genius—the other ac unpretending, simple, modest flrl, whose ftwtures and color are those of a race with whom no great- r,r.gutik l»indeed* nuuierpwoe, but there la nothing phenomenal- no mere freak of ZSSSSbaculptor. Thegiftof gete-■ existed ; eduondoa has dtedopnd and iIt.” I1 Will Oftell at pub One Bannear Gum’Tran omouth i wit cent- pern Aldo, 18 hordes, salt;1 head of sto oati«, one V Iron Frami wagon, out aest, »lor Honed, oni one harro* l*nter’s tc tides too n Tram* oi and under t with tppro 8aIs wll October IS,C. L. ClWe hav Canadian sire of Sit States soil Five of Fort Keo] and, as 1s may be«| ful return tollable
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Bozeman Avant Courier
Bozeman, Montana, US
Thu, Sep 26, 1878
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