Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-10-16
MORTUARY TlD-BITS.

ltttoW"k EtNuiI ut " @huu ifbut tue
columns OF "a Pike county, Pa, weekly, aud
IN given rcrhdtim ct hhcrdt,m
"The family were quickly aroused, but
the remorsoiess Rider oi the Pale Horse had
already sounded tho alarm al tho outer gate,
and, before eleven O'Clock the boat with its
precious freight was dashing over tho turbu'
lent aud angry waves from which no being
was ever known to try To recross, aud an
other torn created In the Image OF ttr
Maker lay wrecked upon tho shore o'
time"
The absence OF punctuation In the next one,
clipped from n Washington, d. o., paper,
makes II ridiculous In the extreine'
"Oncc we had little Harry,
lie was Our darling prize.
God called him home To- rest est,,.rr
From a cemetery at Milford, Pa, comes
the following epttaph
"Here lies the body of Solomon Graves,
who WAS kicked to death by "A horse at the
house OF Richard Gaillard, ON August ~,
1919, aged II years, 3 mos and IL days
"Como all yc mourncrs to the tomb.
see here youth cut OF IN bloom
Nltho' he is hurried to his last.
We hope tho LORD hath found him rest
"This he warning to you all.
should at your house u sick youth call
u not asecrct for To Keep.
hut let his parents know of IT.
A pithy specimen OF lampooning IL seen in
1.-the lines erected over n lawyer at New
buryport, Mass.
"God works wonders now and then,
Hero lies lawyer. an honest man"
An English newspaper says that a tomb
stone In Worcestershire bears the strange in.
scription
Received Of Philip Harding his borrowed
earth, July ttb, 1913"
The same journal also vouches for the su-
thentcity OF the two following Inscriptions.
The poor man must have had hard time
with his two wives. On the tombstone OF
the first
"The Lord gave, and tho Lord hath
Lord"
The second stone bears this
IL called upon tho Lord aud He heard
me, and delivered mo out OF all my trou-
bles."
The Arizona Tombstone states "a a solemn
fact that the following appeared in n local
contemporary
"To the memory OF Tabitha, wife OF
Moses fledgler, gentleInanly wife OF the
appeal, aged 55 years. Terms 81 year in
advance office over Coleman's grocery up
two flights We shall miss thee mother
We shall miss thoo. Job printing neatly
done"
These Western people understand tho art
of making the most OF an opportunity almost
~ we'll as the French woman who caused the
following TO be inscribed upon the stone Gov
ering the remains of her husband
Here lies Fouruier pierre Victor inveu.
- " - :, - =, -"
only one Centime's worth of oil in An hour
lie WAS good father, husband and son. His
a, 10 DO So. Wsi,.,,, ',''',a ~. I'd
parts of the city.
Elihu Yale, the founder of Yale college at
New Haven, lies buried In little church at
Wrenham, Denbighshire, Wales. Ills mon
ument bears this inscription
/" Born In America, In Europe bred,
In Africa travelled. In Asia wed
where long he lived and thrived
And al london DIED; e, - a., ,a,,,,..,,
ns ,s mi ,h,b ris ~ mn "'u :" nopo a.. eron
You that survive ard read hi. inie take care
For this most certain event TO prepare
where blest In peace the actions OF the Just
smell sweet ana oi"ssom IN the silent aust'
Robert Kemp, a well-to do farmer in mid
dIa Nav York had the folInxinv n n ~ csryaJ
u,on . baan,I,nI ,nnnnmo,, 5000 =" ,Ia
memory OF MS VIE
"oncc she was mine,
But nov, oh Lord.
A., ,n, 'U p.,nsIn M. 80 80 o,,,i.,,
humble servant RoHgTI ktNru
Lovers of Dickens work. will dnubtIess
re,n.,n ho, th., {. S,irv damn ~ ia - ,,rn,or
reu'ehIuUi i', ',in. I'M Saiy 'ahP III 'nl'ct-
sstion with her estimable cOtyrcrc, Betsey
frih, expressed her preference lor y brlHh.
p pn aipIT, au, no "iie suI,,rtu
,n'' y,Sr a., 80 ,n Io,as" ,,,s a.
Sn ilpler ou. tne 'oitoNlhs ,ePlaPh III
-, 20 70. " 'i, ~ 49, , N ~, ~, HI'u"t
WIN us anheheo no'e-EiNeS ahotneI PROOF
ati,j CO., ~ VI using
iealtiee 'oi ''o pun PO7c' vi "e''"h
ITO tho memory OF Thomas Upper, OF
brighton who departed this life yo May It'll
loo' hgeu of years.
Reader, with kind regard this grave survey,
noI hc'Sless S p9ss n " hsI" Ilpprra = ashns ,Ay'
And dared to do ShaI low dare do-sPeak his
mind.
snp az a., on ",u snngs ne o"t IN % M aI s"u
Not uiu one AhaNlsn aSt 1o win MS soiu'
(Note by the transcriber " Brewer of a
fine ale known a. Brighton Thinner much
used in Briubton 3o Years AGO ), sf''' ''''"
"'' ~ ~ - s"'oh ~ eo as .,
-, According g to Respectable Ohio journal,
the following eptaph may be seen on a
tombstone IN cemetery near Mansfield
"Under this sod,
,aim hna SnScg these trees
y Of solomon pease
lie IA not in this hole,
But only his pod
lie has shCllcd out his soul
And went up to his God"
An annauv Iudicroua ip..,; ,,,o,, a, t,u,l
In the churchyard of St Mary's at Burlinp-
ton, n. j., as follows:
"Hcre lies the body OF Mary Ann Lowdcr.
Who died while drinking seidiitx powder;
Called from this world 10 her heavenly rest,
beeanse shc uiu not wall till IL enerVesceu.'
The genuineness of the above IL yOuchad for
by the Trenton N l. DdtIy Time,