The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-26
CURIOUS EPITAPHS
Picked Up In All 6orts OF Places ~ a.
Enthusiastic Collector.

| Picked Up in All Sorts OF Places Sy ~
Enthusiastio Collector.
DR.. Charles Martin OF 256 West Fifty seventh
street. who has served forty-two years in the
Uuited States Navy and has visited nearly
every port in the world. has a rare collection Of
scrap books made up. for q great part. during
his travels. For twenty years he has been col.
lecting epigrammatio eptaphs. Some have
never been published. and others are taken
from American and European newspapers.
Many Of them are intended to be serious.
This one is found in an Irish graveyard:
Erected to tho memory OF John PhiipA accidentally
shot IS a mark of affection by his brother.
In the Langollen churchyard. North Wales.
the tomb of Morris and Catharlne Jones II In.
inscribod:
Our life IL but winters day,
Some breakfast and away.
Others to dinner stay and well fed.
Tho Oldest and goes to bed;
Large Is his debt who fingers out the day.
Who goes tho soonest has tho least to pay.
Ann Jennings was sturdy Engllshwoman.
and this is what the Jennings folks OF latsS
generations read:
Some have children. some have none;
Here lies the mother Of twenty-ons.
But for an Irish pun this is really grave
offence:
Here lie tho remains Of John Hail. The world
Is worth and have good rasons for saying -.
Poet Laureate Shelton had this written ct
Queen Elizabeth's death: 1t is seen at St.
Nlary-le- Bow.
Fame. blow aloud and to tho world proclaim
1 %Sst = I %cs "a: "a: S:lasis
III ssr :hs he as
in t., plyl; po hod 70 hu ~ al hAafAA
his e WIGS in christ's Churchyard Philadsl.
phia. He wrote this epitaph for himself when
covep Of an cd Boot It's contents torn and strppsd
taS
s and
This tells tho story OF brewer:
{: Ss
The Duke OF Norfolk in Richard Sheridan's
time, was great whist player. and upon bis
death Sheridan wrote:
s5: S; s s~.s. B.'% ..: TRUMP, ssssa
A Dunkirk family ordered tho Inscription.
Let her rest in peace" upDon the tomb OF one
IA Put the ss
sentence, SO he Abbreviated In this manner;
TRs ni Is inc kind of funeral literature the,
used TO use In California:
.i Il. On va. g. sS n s Il
,a ThSmsf snf sa h en ii IT, rs S .1ss
eu...r I'll. s an .lsa,sS
to q hs ..%. OF h" work
This illogical Jingle comes from Cornwall.
Father and mother andI
Ana iHs tar assf ID y ;o sSise mere
There aeems to be very little doubt about
Hppomatox Court House. Va; woo '0 1
Wa. s S %ssq ,5 5GS i 1$ Ss;s
ss.5si Ss tho Heart v60h gave
This lay Is dedicated to suicide:
H Nor ne ssaS Tep ,n ..,sy f i'm
Yss mon S" s:.s e; l% s' n the SAM
1879 sn g' soes SnH s aiss
HE sqCroundings. he lived only half an houA
AM.ho short. ',,,d joy
il has son. h,sr
Al, ttnscrptiop IN Florence Italy. is trans.
The good he did was good for nsusht
Not so the evil-that prime.
The Rev. Michael McCullock. D. D., OF Both.
we'll ll7G7-1s0ll wanted his friend the Rev.
Thomas Brisbane Of Dunlop to write his opi.
taph. This Is what no got:
Hero lies inferred beneath this sod
That ophaa ttsh man NJ COD .....
sS .sta ss;y ::i 70 eis, Y.s
II he get in no IL loos aud stare
To find some one le nut there.
This statement Is unverined:
She married twenty.f four years and in ali that
time never once banged the door.
This is a death notice published In city
paper four years ago:
BfRNK-pn Friday, Oct 80 by being run over BY r.
links sons lager beer wagon, Thomas son OF ndIev
Farewell dear Tommy
Funeral from his fathers residence All wes, Thirty.
ninth street. this Sunday at $3.50 o'clock |
The following mark of esteem is as terss A
1t Is ambiguous. 1t IL found In Grafton, VI.
Gosx sokk