Connecticut western news., 1873-04-11
Some Funny Epitanhs.

Some Funny Epitaphs. A book just published gives us 8 batch of epitaphs copied from old tomb stones. HE EEF Here is one on MT. Pepper, a Publi- can, at St. Johns, Stamford, Lincoln shire: " Hot by name, but mild by nature, He brew'd good ale for every creature; He brew'd good ale and sold it too, And unto each man gave his due." The following wretched effusion of ghastly puns is from Hackney Church yard, to the memory of Peter Stiller: "A AS still as death poor Peter lies,
 And Stiller when alive was he
 Still not without hope to rise,
 Though Stiller then he still will be-" In Doncaster Churchyard, is this couplet: Here lies Brothers by misfortin serounded One dy'd of his wounds & the other was
 drownded."
 The following lines are over the re- mains of Robert Trollop, architect of the Exchange and Town-HaH at New Castle, England:
 Here lies Robert Trollop, ..f...
 Who made yon stones roll up,
 When death took his soul up
 His body filled this hole up." In Oxfordshire, the following lines appear on head-stone: |" Here lies the body of John Eldred, At least he will be here when he is dead, But now at this time he is alive, The fourteenth of August, sixty-five" In the churchyard of St. Johns, in the old city of Chester, the following lines are commemorative of one Sarah Booth: " A good wife, tender mother
 It were hard to find out such another; In love she lived, in peace she died, And when God called he was not denied" On the tomb of smuggler killed by the Excise Officers, is the following
 "Here lies,
 Killed by X IT." Over the grave of man and wife, whose married life was somewhat con tentious, is the following expressive and comprehensive line
 "Their warfare is accomplished" From tombstone near London, the following lines are taken: C Here lies the body of Nancy H. Gwyn, Who was so very pure within
 She burst her outer shell of sin
 And matched herself cherubin." As an illustration of the exigencies of rhyme, an English writer cites the fol- lowing epitaph from a tombstone at Manchester
 " Here lies, alas! mores the pity, All that remains of Nicholas Newcity."
 N. B.-His name was Newtown. But the English epitaphs more than find their match in American grave yards. In churchyard near Hartford, Conn.,, is the following: Here lies two babies, so dead as nits; De Lord he kilt dem init his ague fits. When dey was too good to live init me, He took dem up to live init He,
 So He did" On tombstone erected over the body of young lady in Dorchester, Mass, is the following:
 ''On the 21st of March
 Gods angels made 8 sarche.
 Around the door they stood:
 They took maid
 It IS sald
 And cut her down like wood" Near San Diego, California, tomb stone inscription thus reads: 'This yere is sakrid to the memory of Will liam Henry Skaraken, who calm to his deth by bein shot by Colts revolver-one of the old kind, brass mounted and of sutch is the king dom of heavin."
 The following comes from Ohio:
 ''Under this sod
 And under these trees
 Lieth the bod
 y of Solomon Pease.
 He's not in this hole, .-r. But only his pod;
 He shelled out his soul
 And went up to his God" An inscription on tombstone in East Tennessee concludes thus: "She lived life of virtue and died of the cholera morbus, caused by eating green fruit, in the hope of blessed immortality. at the early age of 21 years, months and 16 days. Reader, go thou and do likewise" The following, which is suggestive to coffee drinkers, is from 8 tombstone in Connecticut:
 C Here lies cut down like unripe fruit, The wife of Deacon Amos Shute; p. She died of drinking too much coffee, Amy Dominy eighteen forty" A tombstone in Texas has the follow ing inscription:
 'He remained to the last decided friend and supporter of Democratic principles and measures. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord"
 The following is from cemetery in Maine, and was erected by the widow: "Sacred to the memory of James H. R-m, who died Aug. the 9th, 1800 His widow who morlrns as one who can be comforted, aged 24, and possessing every qualification for a good wife, lives at = street, in this village"