Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-08
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From Appleton's Journal.l
It seems az if the EngIish-speaking
nations found It impossible to confne
their raillery to the living. and ac-
cordfngly we find the harmless peCu-
liarities of the dead have often been
hit of on a tombstone with a felicity
which has rendered immortal what
otherwise the next generation might
have forgotten. The following we'll
known epitaph Of DR.. Franklin, writ
ten by himself, viii bear repetition
here for its bumor and q%uaintness:
"THE BODY or
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN,
PRINTER,
dixie the cover of an old book,
its contents tora Gus,
and stript Of its lettering and gildingl
lies here, food for worms;
but the work shall not be lost,
fOrit will as he believes) sppsarOncs more
in e new and more elegant edition,
revised and corrected
by
THE AUTHOR"
Ths following inscription Is in the
%churchyard Of ChigWelI, Essex, Eng
land
" This disease ys n'er heard tell on.
died by eating too much melon;
Be careful, then, all you that feed-I
Suffered because I was too greedy"
In a churchyard in Cheltenham,
England, may be seen the following,
which has appeared in the neWspa-
pers with some variations:
s Here lies I and my three daughters,
Killed by drinking Of the Cheltenham
Wsters,
If we had stuck to EPSON salts,
We'd not be lying in these here vsults"
"SiF," said DR.. Johnson, 90 it is a
shame to speak i'll of a man behind
his back, but I think the gentleman
who has just left the room is-an
attorney" A similar sentiment, as
to the prevailing rascality of lawyers
Of the lower grade, is found on a
gravestone in Swat ham, Norfolk,
England:
" Here ieth one, believe 10 if you can,
Who, though an attorney, was an honest
man.
The gates Of Heaven shall open wide,
But viii shut against ali the tribe beside"
The following coupIet on a miser's
tomb is epigram matte:
Here lies old Father grippe, who never
cried jam Salts
'TWouId make him mad did he know YOU
read his tombstone g~rstis."
This cOuplet, too, from Prince Ed
wards Island, is not without its mer-
its, though the rhyme is far from sat
isfactOry:
d" Here lies the body Of poor Charles
Lamb,
Killed by a tree that fell s~Iap-bang."
In an epitaph which we have not
found in any of the collections, the
composer met most ingeuiOusly the
impOssibility Of making the dead
mans name rhyme with the cause Of
his death:
Here lies Richard Dunn,
Who was killed by a gun.
His name was PrVme,
But that wouldn't rhyme"
Several years ago an inhabitant Of
WOOlWich died, leaving a testament
airy order that his tombstone should
be inscribed with the we'll known
lines
youthful reader passing by,
As you are now, so once was ];
As / am now, so o must be-,
Therefore, prepare to follow me-
The widow Of the deceased, whodid
not honor her lord more than the or
binary run Of wives, Obeyed her hUs-
bands I~njunctOns, but added a post
script OF her own composition:
"To follow you Pm not content.
Until [ know which way you WENT
The gravestone, with this inscrip-
ton, vas for a considerable period TO
be seen in WOOlWich chuTch-yard,
but, after much persuasion, the late
rector prevailed upon the widow to
let him remove the hippaut lines.
The following quaint inscription on
a noted beer-drinker may be found in
a church-yaTd in the city Of Durham,
England:
Beneath these stones rspCss the bones
OF TheOdOsius Grimm.
He took his beer from year to wear,
And then his bier took him"
From an old English paper we cut
the following four epitaphs:
Here listh wrapped in clay
The body Of William Gray,
have no more to say
Here Iieth the body Of Thomas Smith,
And who was somewhat lavish:
He was born, bred sud hanged,
In this very parish"
Here lies cut down, like uuripe fruit,
Jemims, wife Of John D~sEroO5."
$40 the memory Of John and Mary Nicer.
A whale killed him. and she lies here"
In Rockville, Eastern Massachu.
sets, the following inscription may be
'In memory Of Jane Brent,
Who kicked up her heels and away she
went"
The following lines are in a village
church yard in Georgia:
open your eyes,
Fol here lies
All that can rot.
Right where she sOt,
When she was happy,
Our Eliza Jane.
Called home again.
TOj0in her pappy.
Live so that you
And I may, too,
Join them, and forever pray
Against the chilis and choIera."
We are indebted to Once q Week
for the following, taken from a
3hurch-yard in Sutton, Shropshire,
England
Here lies the body Of Charles Ksst-
ley, who departed this life November 4th, I
fCEE nma 90 w-a.-- I