Arizona republican., 1895-07-13
ODD FINAL REQUESTS.
Curious Wishes Made by Persons
 When Dying.
Requests Fave Been Made to Provide Drinks, Slaves, Rides and Music for Mourners-Eccentric to
 the Last.


 them make arrangements to keep them selves before the public eye after death, but the few who do so exhibit fertility of ideas that would have been of great value to them in the advertising line during their lives.
 The latest exponent of post-mortem crankism was queer old farmer of Kent, Saratoga county, this state, who recently departed this life, says the New York Advertiser He left explicit directions in his will as to his burial, the most noteworthy being that he should have his favorite pair of raw hide boots as a part of his grave clothes and that he should be taken to the cemetery in the family sleigh. His wishes were carried out to the letter and he was whirled up to his last rest ing place to the accompaniment of jingling bells and buried with his boots on.
 A Brooklyn saloonkeeper, who was as jolly in life as he was fat, left direc- tions with his widow as he gasped "Good-by" to set aside one hundred dollars of his estate with which to pro vide beer for his friends on the dreary drive to the cemetery. The widow not only provided every carriage with fifty bottles of the cheering beverage, but drew on the saloon stock for two kegs ful, which were emptied at the side of the coffin before it was taken from the house.
 Another saloonkeeper, Staten Islander, whose place was famous re- sort for fishermen and was himself an ardent angler, often said that he would never lie content in the cold ground. So he made arrangements to have his body cremated and imposed the dying injunction on his friends to see that his ashes were scattered about on the salt water he loved so well, from the head of the statue of Liberty. His wishes were reigiously carried out and the funeral party returned to his old saloon and drank ''his health,' as provided in his will.
 Still another saloonkeeper, whose place was well over on the east side of town and who was an inveterate fisher man also, had his ashes committed to the deep. He was member of little fishing club that went down in tug to Romer Shoals every Sunday during the season. He found when on his death bed that he had but fifty dollars be- yond his cremation fees and he decided to give the ''boys'' a good time with it. He ordered that the money be applied to the hiring and stocking of the tug for the first trip after his death and asked that his ashes be taken along and dumped overheard at the shoals while a schooner of beer was drunk to his memory. It was done as he ordered. A female keeper of a tramps' lodging house in Montreal is about the only woman on record who devised for her self funeral on other than convention al lines. She left orders that all her lodgers be provided with shave, a breakfast and high hat with mourn ing ribbons, and that they all follow her body to the grave behind two brass bands. The bands were to play the ''Dead March in Saul' on the outgoing trip, but to play ''The Girl I Left Be- ] hind Me" all the way home The churches attempted to stop the carry ing out of her remarkable injunctions, | but were unsuccessful, and the old woman was serenaded as per desire
 The most horrible of all these grew some provisions was that made by | Virginia colonel, who died about twen- ty-fve years ago, in Amelia county. He | demanded, under penalty of cutting off from all his possessions, that his widow have him put in an open coffin in a | clump of woods near the house, and leave him there for six weeks. Every morning and evening of that time she was to come to him and brush his hair and whiskers. Luckily the colonel | shuff1ed off his mortal coil in the middle | of a very cold winter, so he s'kept' ; His widow was able to carry out his wishes, therefore, and came into all his property.
 There are quite a number of cases of religious enthusiasts who have de- manded to be buried in a standing po- sition, so as to be all ready for the judgment day, and a negro in South Carolina was buried feet up because he believed the fiat earth would be turned upside down at the first blast of Gabrie1's trumpet and he wanted to be ready right side up.
 People innumerable have had valu- ables or mementoes buried with them at their request, and short time ago ill France dying woman had her pet cat killed so that it might be buried in 1 her arms.
 HE hath a poor spirit who is not planted above petty wrongs.-Feltham.