The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1880-02-07

the third wife Of Capt. Hand; but nOtwith- |
standing the severity Of the Christening
rod, the Capt. passed under its lashings |
twice more, and last Of all died himself,
having married and buried four out Of the
five wives in ten years.
Another from England, with an explain
atory postscript attached by his, widow:
Here lies the remains Of Thomas woodhep
The most amlableof husbands and excellent OF men
N u. His real name was woodoock but it wouldn't
rhyme-His Widow.
IL is possible-barely possible-though
we doubt it, that an epigraph more gran
eloquent, more extraordinary than the
following eau be found. Its authorship
might, perhaps be attributed to some spring
poet. IL is from England
ELIZABETH
Inc Wlie Of Richard hnrklamh
passed into eternity on Sunday. DIST May l7g7,
IN the list year of her age.
RICHARD BAEKLANH
the anti spouse uxrious
Was Inferred here, 9Th January 1906
In bis sith year
WILLIAM BAKKLAMH
Brother TO the preceding
september 1th, l7yS, aged g. Year.
When terrestrial all in chaos shall exhibit eaeryes
when celestial with their full. efrulgent brilliant
eSScncc,
Shall with beaming beautcous radiance through the
Iranscending to glorious regions. bchthcal sublime
Then human power absorbed deficient 10 dellncaies
such efiulgent lasting sparks
Where honest plebians ever will have precedence
ovcrambguons, great, monarchs.
n III, grave yard at Jackson, Michigan,
a stone stands, bearing remarkable cpl
taph. II was the conception of bereaved
and disconsolate widow in commemoratiou
Of her deceased husband
Ny dear husband erect this monument in memory
hope itwin be pleasing to God and to you.
The friends of one Robert Sordcn, of
Union District, South Carolina, describe
his physical charaeteristics in very plain
words, devoid of any redundancy, but per-
haps savoriug Of some little exaggeratlou:
Here lies the body Of Robert sorden.
Mouth almighty, and teeth accordin;
Stranger tread lightly over this wonder
II he op'ns his mouth your re gone by thunder.
Epiiaphs furnish rich opportunities for
punning, which some are not slow to avail
themselves Of One of the best Of this
kind is that on Mr.. Bywater an English
man:
Here lies the remains Of his relatives pride.
Bywater he lived aud by water he died;
Though by water he fell yet by water he'll rise
BY water baptsmal attaining the skic.
Another is found in Byron's works, on
John Adams Of Southwell, n carrier, who
died Of drunkenness
-. A.. III.
Cdrrier who odrried his can ~ his mouth we'll
lie Carried 20 much and he nurrioi iasi.
lie could carry no more-so was carried at last,
For the liquor he drank. being too much for one
He could not carry of, $50 he's now eani-on.
On William Moore, Stepney Church:
Here lies one More and no m0rs than he:
One More and no how can that be-
Why one More and may lie here alone.
But here lies ono More aud that's more than one
Proposed by Douglas Jerrold for Charles
knight, the Shakspearian critic
Good Knight
Another on the tomb Of an auctioneer
at Greenwood
Going. -Ooiag -ooSKl
Curious aud puzzling epitaphs are some
times INDUCED in, as for example the fol-
lowing, which was taken FROM Cuuwallow
Churchyard, Cornwall, aud may be read
either backwards, or forwards, up or down
Shall we all def
We shall die all
All die shall We,
Die all We shall.
An inscription on tombstone 10 the
burrying ground at Hollis, n. H., informs
us that
OUR LITTLE JACOB
Has been taken away from this Earthly Garden
To Bloom
In Superior Flower pot
Above.
From the import Of the following one
would naturally suppose Strutton lineal
ancestor Of Brigham Young. His peer 10
this line is unknown us yet to the writer :
Here iIeth the body Of william strnt,ou Of Pad.
dington, buried May 18Th, 1884 who had by his int
wife ~ Children and by second wife, IL; own faith
and grcat-great grandfather 70 % In ali 25i"
"Breyity," as Shakespeare says, sis the
soul of wit; if this holds good in monu-
mental inscriptions, then these few are
certainly worthy representation. The FIRST
is from Baton Rouge, La.
Here lies the body Of David Jones' His last words
eide christian and Democrat
Another from Venice consists solely Of
this one line
His neighbor played the hutina. %
Another from Augusta, Maine:
Afer IIfes Scarlet Rner
sleep well.
Another Of only two words:
Thorpsk
Corp&e.%
A gravesione In Pudsey Churchyard
England, states that aaaaaa
"Beneath this stone iiefh the remains OF Joseph
blackburn Of PudAey who departed this life the 18th
Of May, ls28. aged % years.
sharp was the stroke that did appear
Which took my life away
ONT reader then for heaven prepare,
On earth you cannot stay,
Tho moon gave light he took sight,
Though the top pane iostmy life.
Relating to the foregoing doggerel is a
sad history. The young man TO whose
memory tho stone Is erected went court
ing to a house near the church; and 10
order 70 pour forth bis affections more
freely To his Aabella, who was in her
chamber, be climed up to the bedroom
window, and stood with his feet on the
bottom Of tho window Of The lover room.
The father Of the young lady bearing 0
noise, and seeing man against the win
dow, took a sword and plunged il through
the pane into the body Of the man, doubt
less decming him to be robber The
young fellow died; hence the line,
Through the top pane 1lost my life.
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