Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1895-10-04

widow, who mourns as one who can be
comforted, aged only "a, and possessing
every qualification for good wife, lives
In this village.
A tombstone as a matrimonial agency
is certainly novel. A village cemetery
on the coast of Maine thus advertises
the wants of willy widow
Another epitaph is gentle reminder
that some women, including Miss Ara
bella Young, will talk as long as breath
lasts;
Here lies. returned to clay,
Miss Arabella Young,
Who on the LIST of May
Began to hold her tongue.
The woman so unfortunate as to be
named Mary Mum was also given an
infelicitous epitaph:
To the memory OF Mary Mum:
Silence is wisdom.
The cemetery at Naugatuck. Conn,
has this interesting inscriptions:
May all mankind put off hypocrisy and
superstition and put on new coat of
philosophy lined with the laws of nature.
I'm dec confideo.
The shocking photography of some in
scriptions seems incredible. This one
may be found in Connecticut:
Deth conquers all
both young and old
tho ever so wise descret and bold
in helth and strength this youth did die
in moment without one cry
killed by cart.
In the same city of the dead is this
| astounding statement:
Sacred to the memory of Charley and
Marley,
Sons of loving parents who died in in
fancy.
England has some ludicrous testi-
monials to the dear, departed dead"
in her quaint cemeteries. In Cornwall.
for instance, may be found these dainty
| verses:
Here lies entombed one Roger Morton,
| Whose sudden death was early brought
| on;
Trying one day his corn to NOV off
The razor slipped and cut his toe off.
The toe or what 1t grew to
/ The Inflammation quickly flew to;
The parts they took to notifying,
And poor. dear Roger took to dying.
AT Montrose stone bearing the date
1857 has this remarkable statement:
Here lies the Bodeys of George Young
and Isabel Guthrie and all their posterity
for more than fifty years backwards.
The following may be seen in the
Worcester cemetery:
Martha and together lived
Just two years and a half;
She went first, and followed after
The COW before the calf.
This is not an advertisement for the
mineral waters at Cheltenham:
Here lies l. and my three daughters;
So much for drinking the Cheltenham
waters;
If we had kept to the Epson salts
> We would never have lain in these vaults.
The brother of girl who made liv-
ing by selling eggs thus pays loving
a tribute to her memory:
IS Here lies the body of Mary MGrayn,
1t Who was SO very pure within.
She broke the outward shell of sin,
And Matched herself a cherublin.
N. B.-Her brother, made of sterner stuff
Adds to her business that Of snuff.
The father of this flock doubtles
T. wonders if this inscription, penned b.
IS his wife before death, is altogether re
lie spectful:
&c Here lies the mother of children 6,
y Three are dead and two are alive;
is Those who are dead preferringl rather
To die with the mother than live with tn
father.
A tragic death isathus described on
monument at Ocknam, Surrey:
n The Lord saw sood. was looping o.
And down from the tree; 49,
/ met with a clleck and brssze my neck,
And so DEAN loRped' on me.
h. Another 6nrious inscription partakel
of the natu% Of puzzle. Here Il Is;