Arizona silver belt., 1895-05-25
ODD FINAL REQUESTS.
Curious Wishes Made by Persons
 When Dying.
Requests Have Boon Made to Provide Drinks, shRves, Rides and Music for AIourners- Eccentric to
 the E.Qst.

The world is full of cranlSs, as every body knows, but the great majority of them oonfne their eccentrieities to their life upon this sphere. Few of them make arrangements to keep them selves before the public eye after death, hut the few who do so exhibit fertility of iHcas that would have been of great votuc to them in the advertising line <uring their lives
 The latest exponent of post-mortem cranl1ism was a 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 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 Co his last rest ing place to the accompaniment of jingling bells and buried with his boots on.
 A Brooklyn saloonlleeper, 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 full which were emptied at the side of the coffin before it was taken from the house.
 Another salOSukeeper, a Staten Islander, whose plAce was a famous re- sort for fishermen ind was himself an ardent angler, Cften said that he would never liC content in the cold ground. So h. made arrangements to have his body orcmated and imposed tho dying injunction on his friends to sec 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 rcligiously carried out and the funeral party returned to bis old saloon and drank his health, as provided in his will
 Still another saloonlSceper, whose place was well over ou the cust side of town and who was an inyctcrate fisher man also, lad his ashes committed to the deep. He was a member of little fishing club that went down in a tug to Romer Shoals every Sunday during the season. lie 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 lie ordered ohat the money be applied to Che hiring and stocking of the tug for the first trip after his death and asked that his ashes be taken along aud dumped overheard at the shoals while 8 schooner of beer was drunl, to his memory. 10 was done as he ordered.
 4 female keeper of traaps' lodging house in Montreal iS about the only woman on record who devised for her self funeral on other than convention. al lines. She loft orders that all her lodgers be provided with shave, breakfast and q nigh hat with mourn ing ribbons, and that they all follow her body to the grave behind two brass bands, The bands wore to play the "Dcad March in Saul' on the outgoing trip, but to play The Girl l Left Be. hind Me all the way home. The churches attempted to stop the carry ing out of her remarkable iuiunctions. but were unsuccessful, and the old woman was scrcnadcd as per desire
 The most horrible of all these grew some provisions was that made by Virginia colonel, who died about tweu- ty-fvc years ago, in Amelia county, He demanded, under penalty of cutting of from all his possessions, that his widow have him put in an open coffin in clump of woods near the house, and leave him there for six weeks Every morning and evening of that time she was Co come Co him and brush his hair and whisllcrs. Luckily the colonel shuillcd off his mortal coil in the middle of a very cold winter, so he 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- handed to be buried in standing po- sition, so as to be all ready for thc judgment day, and negro in south Carolina was buried feet up because he believed the flat earth would be turned upside down at the first blast of Gabricl's trumpet and he wanted to be ready right side up.
 People innumerable have had valu- ables or mcmentocs buried with them at their request and q short time ago in France dying woman had her pet cat killed so that it might be buried in her arms