The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-23
Two Fools and Their Money.

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Henry Hitler and wife of Wilmington,
Mass, whose fad was magniicentiy
carved and luxuriously upholstered
burial caskets. have been described in
the press already. The doctors funeral
took plscs a year ago. and the corpse
was carried tc its last resting place in
a silk-lined, gold-plated. elaborately
carved casket of solid mahogany.
Not satisfied with the ghostly magnif-
cence of a year ago the widow has
been at work on the construction Of
new caskets, one for her husband, the
other for herself. Each casket is IN
two parts. the basket proper and the
sarcophagus The material in all four
is solid mahogany, imported specially
from South America. The upholster-
ing inside is as elaborate as money
could make it. Corded silk of the
value of $40 yard is the material used
The lids are made of separate panels,
highly polished, richly carved, and
fastened by solid gold hinges, with
knobs of solid gold for opening them.
| The doctors new casket is fastened by
heavy brass door of Gothic design,
having a knob made of six pounds OF
solid gold. On the panels are solid
| gold tablets ascribed with the doctors
favorite passage of Scripture.
Mrs. Hitler has also made for herself
burial robe of which it may be truly
said that it beggars description. The
dressmaker completed it after four
months labor and an outlay of $50, coo.
The robe is made of white ottoman
silk, corded heavily. There is also a
wilderness of white silk lace running
in perpendicular panels and tucked
and gathered and fluted until it stands
out to distance Of five inches.
The total outlay by Mrs. Hitler will
be n>: ear short CT S5O0.0O0. The
nausoleum will be of hammered gran
tie. In the four walls will be built
windows, through which it is planned
to have rays of colored light enter, a
different light to each window, which,
blending, will fall upon the caskets
resting side by side withir.-Baston
Bargaining in A1glers.
You select your goods with slow do
liberation, pile them together casually
in little heap, eye them askance with
an inquiring glance, and ta.-e corr
templatiye pull or two at the inspiring
weed in solemn silence, says writer
in the Gentlenaan's Magazine. Mo.
hammed Ali responds with puff from
his cigarette in grave concert. Then
you walk once or twice up and down
the piazza slowly, and, jerking your
head with careless ease in the direction
Of your selected pile, you inquire, as if
for abstract reasons merely, in an Of
hand tone, your Moslem friends loves.
cash quotation for the lot as it stands.
Two hundred francs is the smallest
price. Mohammed Ali paid far more
than that himself for them. He sells
simply for occupation it would seem.
Look at the work, monsieur. all
craven brass, not mere repcusse metal,
or real old chain-stitch, alike on both
sides-rone of your wretchcd, com
mon-place, modern, machine-made en-
broidery.
You smile incredulousiy. and remark
with a wise nod that your Moslem
friend must surely be in error. A mis-
take of the press. For 200 francs read
so francs.
Mohammcd Ali assumes an EXPIRES.
sive attitude of virtuous Indignation
and resumes his tobacco. Fifty francs
for all that lot! Monsieur jests. He
shows himself a very poor judge, in
deed, of values.
Half an hours debate and ten sue
cessive abatements reduce the lot at
last to fair average price of70 francs.
Mohamned Ali declares you have rob-
bed him Of his profit, and pockets his
cash with inarticulate grumblings in
the Arab tongue. Next day you see in
the Rue Bab-Azzoun that you have paid
him at least so francs too much for
your supposed bargain.