PARK AND CEMETERY, 
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THE HENRY GEORGE MONUMENT, GREENWOOD 
CEMETERY, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. 
A very interesting monument, both on account 
of its own merits of design and execution, and the 
great public esteem in which Henry George was 
held is the memorial erected to his memory and re- 
cently unveiled in Greenwood Cemetery, New York. 
The sad circumstances attending his sudden taking 
off, in the midst of the greatest struggle of his life 
for purity in politics, gives the monument additional 
value as a me- 
morial, and im- 
parts to it a sen- 
timent of venera- 
tion befitting the 
really great life 
it serves to com- 
memorate. 
The proposi- 
tion for the me- 
morial found ex- 
pression immedi- 
ately after his 
death, and it was 
at once decided 
that it should 
combine the 
qualities of sim- 
plicity and im- 
pressiveness, and 
the design illus- 
trated herewith 
was the result. 
Dark Quincy 
granite and 
bronze are the 
materials of con- 
struction. Its 
principal dimen- 
sions are: die, 4 
ft. 5 in. by 1 ft. 
3 in. by 7 ft- 8 
in. high, which 
is set in a base, 
7 ft. 11 in. by 4 
ft. 5 in. by 1 ft. 
3 in. The face of the die isa sunken polished panel, 
at the upper corners of which are attached bronze 
wreaths, bearing within one the words, Born Sept. 
2, 1839, and within the other, Died Oct. 29, 1897. 
On a pedestal, Ionic in style, rising from the 
base on the face of the panel, is a bronze bust, mod- 
elled by Richard George, sculptor, a son of the il- 
lustrious deceased, which is said to be and natur- 
ally ought to be, a perfect likeness of his father. 
On the face of the pedestal isthename Henry George. 
The entire work has a classical and dignified 
appearance, with attributes of substantiality and 
durability, well calculated to remind the observer 
of the character and work of the great economist it 
memorializes. 
A curious feature of life in the great black 
forest of Europe is the number of memorials of a 
pious character that are to be found along the high- 
way and in private gardens. At first sight the 
stranger is apt to 
mistake them for 
u n c o n secrated 
graves. Any re- 
markable event 
in the life of a 
Black forester 
of substance is 
thought to be 
worth signalizing 
in a similar 
fashion, while 
pious sentiment 
is often expressed 
by the erection 
of a figure of 
Christ on the 
cross. Within a 
space of 500 
yards have been 
noted as many as 
half a dozen of 
these quaint 
structures in 
wood or stone, 
some in a deplor- 
ably battered and 
weather - beaten 
condition. 
THE HENRY GEORGE MONUM 
BROOKLYN, 
ENT, GREENWOOD CEMETERY, 
NEW YORK. 
A n extraor- 
dinary discovery, 
and one which is 
just now exciting 
considerable in- 
terest in an ti- 
quarian circles in Lancashire and Cheshire, has 
been made at Stockport. During the excavations 
in the construction of sewage works for the town 
some workmen came across what has since proved 
to be a massive oak tree, with two immense 
branches. Professor Boyd Dawkins, the well-known 
antiquary, is of opinion that the tree is one of the 
giants of prehistoric times, and he says that the tree 
is certainly 10,000 years old. It is supposed to 
weigh about forty tons . — London Neivs. 
