The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-07-01

The valaeof giving to the world the history
in brlsf Of those they celebrasesSel Il great
deal Of valuable information converting peo-
pie Who have renowned their interest in the
things in this transitory Of existence, would
'be lost. sbCestainly We could insafiosdto spare
the following, from Bath Abbey, England, in
which wit aid accuracy are SO admirably
combined: AZ EoN SMSTR&S
Here lies Ann Mann,
II, y 50 She lived an DID Maidy sastsssf kfs
.asaass And died an Old Man. ssssssaA Stss
In ockham church, Surrey. England, we
fall in with this tiptop description Of q falling
leaf from the tree of life !: 55' Y
The LORD saw good was topping OF wood
And down j fell nom the tree 81 phi.
l met with q check and broke my blessed neck
And SO dea IN topped OF me.
Coming nearer home We drop into poetry,
at Biddford, Maine, and regret that the mar
riage feast did coldly furnish forth the funer-
al table :
The wedding day appointed was i.
The wedping clothes provided
But ere that day did come, alas
He sickened and he dieded.
1t is evident that the swan did not sing this
STRAIN from the ~churchyard at Stratford-on-
Avon, though he probably borrowed from il
the idea expressed in, i" He was a man take
him for all in all, ETC." IS. &
Mike was in temper and in sole sinsere >9
Aun Husband tender and a father deer
He was a father kind rf
And modist in his mind
A greeter blessin to a umman StA 10
Never NOR was giv'n
Nor a greater loss eksept the loss of Heav'n.
The lady referred to in these lines may not
have been a relative of the banker Coutts
but she was certainly quite as familiar with
vaults +: #@ l. a2ea I3as r@. a.
In this ehurchyard lies Eppie Coutts
Either here or hearabout
But whaur it IL none can tell ff #t'
Till Eppie rise and tell hersel. II.
Here is a rare example Of fortitdde, which
was finally overcome by tender recollections
of the deceased /: ST., s aiz5. 81 Z.
Her husband never dropped a tear st q
TIL he had placed her body here a3i
And then he 'blubbered like o great lout R'
For fear she'd scratch her passage out.
Fifty years is a comparati vely brief separa-
ton when enternity is taken into considers
ton q .&f" ~. 9lF1s.i s3l 'f,
I am ai.1iously expecting you-A.D D., 1877. .
Here I ANA. d. 1867. ..,4 Ia +
We do not assert that the lady so touching-
ly, grammatical and automatically recalled
below was a pedestrienne, but it is reasona-
tle to suppose that she might have been
from the way she went out of the. world, ~
Poor Martha Smell hers gone away
Her would finer could but her couldn't stay
Herd two sore legs and a baddish cough s-ll
But her legs it was as carried her of: r eE~
The evil effects of drinking water adverted
to In the s~ujoined will give comfort to many
y slnaulatihs soutfAu9 auJH sERaf43ATs
Here lies I and my three daughters,
@All from drinking the Cheltenham waters,
If w had kept to the EPSON salts 81
We shouldn't have been in these here vaults
Our friends, the druggists, must look upon
this charge as a base libel. It is no doubt a
weak invention, and the child alluded to pro-
badly died of natural causes:
In this grave reposes q dear little dead
Susie Lee her name, and her age just one year
She died of drnb stuf ifs in too large a dose,
Which threw her into fits and made her vamose.
We, too, have run our race, as far as grave
subjects are concerned, and If the collection
we have offered is not as deep as a tomb, hope
with Mercuito, that it will do.-New York
Nail. t. ID ans4..