Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-09-05
MISCEILA AN Y.
Entertaining Epitaplls.


ever afforded so much amusement TO the
world as the various styles of epitaphs,
some purposely pointed and epigrammatic,
some irresistibly laughable from their very
badness and simplicity. Their collection
is source of infinite pleasure TO many &
curiosity-loving literary hunter, and the
English press has in time past given US
printed volumes of these gleanings from the
church yards. One of the best and largest
collections we know of in this country is in
manuscript and was made by Mr.. G. FL.
Sweetser of Amherst college, and from its
pages we take the following gems'-
Here lies in earth an honest fellow,
Who died by fAt aud lived by talle~.
IIere lies one who for medicine would not give
little gold and his life was lost
] fancy nov he'd surely wish to I've
Could he but know how much his funeral cost.
on woxas KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
She died by lightning sent from Heaven
In I777.
CORNWALL RIrsPu,
Father aud mother and
Ilr buried helv asuRieri
tatscr ard mother Inc buried here
And lie bar,ed yeader.
xPrAra PROM pswIcH, MASS.
Death is a debt to natare due.
/ We've paid the debt and 50 must YOU
pY A uussASp, on ran para es ms wIvEs.
On tAe First,
/" The Lord gave and the turd hath taken blessed
| b. tss name OF ths Bori
On The Seoosd.
called upon the Lord and he heard me- and delivered
me out q all my troubles"
BuRSs os
| whurer thou art, o reader know
That death has murdered johnny
An, here his boi5 iics ta' how
| For saul, he neAer had ony,
ON AN ITALIAN CARDINAL.
Here lies cardinal who wrought
Both good and evil in his time
The gotd he did good for naushtt
Not 30 the evil that was prime
ON An ORATOR, BY pRovoHAx.
Herr reader, turn your weeping eyes;
My nate useful moral teaehes;
The hole in which my body lies
Would not contain one half my speeches
Pilou wished to become member of the
French Academy, and falling, revenged
himself by wiring an epitaph which may
be translated thus -
tIsre lies Pirou, who helt no position,
Not tina. Of Acadenician.
on pOprE, rar cosEDns
F.pfe from his earthly stage, alas, is hurled
Death took him OF who took of all the world.
ON ROASTING CAPTAIN.
Tread sofiy nurtals DER the bones
or the worlds wonder, Captain Jones,
Who told his glorious deeds to many,
But was believed By any.
Poeterity let this suffice
| He swore alls true, and here he Aes.
rpox rutptrSrox
Reader, I've lefs this world, in which
had world to do;
Sweating and frcttIng 70 get richly
just such a fool as you
ON JOHN HALE PORTSMOUTH.
God takes the good,
| Too good by far too stay;
And leaves the bad,
Too bad % take away.
a
Herr erumbling lies beneath this mould
A man whose sole delight was gold
Content once his guest
Though twice thousand filed his chest
For he, poor man, with all bis store,
Died in great want-tae want of more.
on DANIEL PIERCE
Here lies inferred a soul indeed
Whom few none excellcdi
In grace II any him exceed
lien be Unparalleled
| ON WILLIAM surroy
o sun, moon, stars, and We celestial poles
Are graves then dsindled into bu ton-holes
on TUE EMINENT BsRRIsrER, sR soHs STRANGE.
Here lies an honest lawyer,--that is Strange.
rAsIIr rPnApH
From Broom CAwehy@d, England.
Here is Mr.. Dudley. senior,
And Jane, his wife also,
VINO while living his superior,
But see what death can do
Tive OF ms sous also h here,
| One Walter. itather Joe
They all of them went in the year
1910 below.