Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-06
eoME OPP epiTApHS.

Ynser,utIuns Found In Dinsg-
ent Parts OF the world.
r,,a ia always a mysterious fasci-
H., for most all OF us about grave
,ds tombstones, monuments. and
:, thing appertaining to the dead.
NE word epitaph is derived from two
.oak words meaning an inscription
monument. The Greeks, the
mans and the Egyptians raised
s,nna-,I tombs over their noble dead,
nose of the Egyptians being probably
- oldest. although in many cases 1t
entirely impossible to approximate
date of some of the immense
nas raised in honor of the de ID in
bur own country.
re what ia written on tombstones
ore strictly true the world would
o.rcev have need of other history;
- unfortunately such is not the case.
Iho tender feelings of the survivors
neuence them to forget the wrong
Nd write only the good, and in most
ases expand the latter as much as
possible.
One of the best and most epigram-
natic of epitaphs is that OF Alexander
he Great 1t is in Latin. which,
translated. is as follows:
u.-e n mound suffices for one for whom the
rorld was not large enough
The following has the virtue OF brew
~ but contains the now tabbooed
bun. 1t is on the tombstone OF Charles
nioht of England, and is simply:
Good knight.
uara is one from q headstone in
Cornwall, England. and can be read
both ways:
Shall we all dief
We shall die ALL
All die shall wef
Die all we shall.
This one is on a London cooks
Peas to his II She's
A great deal of libelous matter has
haen written on tombstones concern
np wives: the following is an example:
Within this grave do lie
Rack to back my wife and L;
When the last trump the air shall all
II she gets up I'll just lie still.
The next one breathes spirit OF de-
kout resignation:
Bhe once mine;
And now
70 Thee Lord. I her resign;
And am your obedient humble servant Robert
Kemp.
LAWYERS have always come in for
their share of post-mortem abuse. The
following is taken from the tombstone
bf Lawyer Strange:
Here lies an honest lawyer,
And that's Strange.
This is the epitaph of James Straw,
attorney, Lincolnshire. England:
Here lies James Straw,
Who forty years. sir, followed the law;
And when he died the Devil cried:
Jimmy, give US yer paw
The epitaphs of the great in West
minister Abbey are as rule too long to
be quoted here. There are some ex-
ceptions, however, of which the fol-
lowing to Ben Jonson is one:
o Rare Ben Jonson.
Il That is all of it. but it speaks vol
&umes.
4 In Denver, Col. is the tombstone of
"a policeman which bears this inscrip-
Sion:
NJ Move on, Mister: move on
~ In rural graveyard in Massachu-
&setts is the following:
~ Here lies Ezekiel Sounder who was accident
ally killed in the AID year of his age. This stone
was erected oy his grateful family.
Al This appears in Southern grave
ward:
Il The Yankee hosts with blood stained han da
Came southwark to divide our lands;
"A This narrow and contracted spot
" is all that this poor Yankee got.
"a At San Antonio, Tex, in the mill
SFary cemetery, on large board that
resembles railway budapest, is
written the military command:
III In Place-Restl
81 Besides the trail which leads from
Fort Concho to Fort Davis, Tex. is a
zone grave. At its head is placed
Tough limestone slab. ON which are
Pcratched the Spanish words:
81 ,Qnien sabey (who knows)
Il A passerby has scratched beneath
8hem
81 dos sabe God knows).
n Gan any high-sounding phrase on
culptured granite compare in pathetic
grandeur with this simple little cpl
aph over that solitary grave on :
3the sandy Texas plains?-Chicago