The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
ECCENTRIC BURIALS.
qHE ELECTRIC BELL WILL SAVE
THOSE INFERRED ALIVE.

Planted in Earth Seeded with
Acorns to NOurish an English Oak.
From the Hartford Times.
several inventions have recently been
made tending to the modification of the
al method of burial. One inventor has
,atented an apparatus by which anyone
nrematurely inferred will, on the slight
sst movement indicating returning con-
.eiousness, set going an electric bell or
ircandescent lamp over his grave, stimuli
+sneously opening a tube communicating
with the air above. The inventors plan
Is TO have a watcher a graveyard for
4. certain time after every burial, so that
any demonstration of reawal1ening may
he quickly observed and acted upon
Another invention is by a New York
Gentleman. who has a preparation by
which he says he can preserve the bodies
of our friends for an indefinite period;
and in such a manner that we may look
down upon their faces as often as we de-
sire.
The history of burial shows many curl
ops departures from the old straightfor-
ward method of interment The story is
,ol5 that Rev. Langton Freeman, an &C.
centric clergyman of Northamptonshire,
directed before his death that his body
should be carried with the bed on when
il Law, decently and privately to the sum
mer house in his garden at Wilton. There
ii was to be wrapped in strong double
winding-sheet and in all respects the bib
lieal description of the burial OF our Sa-
vior was to be followed as closely as pos
sible The doors and windows were then
TO be secured and the building planted
around with evergreens ana IenceQ win
dark-blue palings of oak or iron. This was
carried out to the letter, and there the
reverend eccentric lay for many years.
About 1870 an entrance to this strange
tomb was effected through the roof, when
the curious intruders beheld a dried-up
|hgure, veritable mummy, lying with
one arm across the chest and the other
y hanging down the body.
/ A lady patient of a Manchester phySi-
can repaid his professional attention by
4bequeathing him $4,000 on condition that
he should have her body embalmed in the
most perfect manner possible, and that
once every year he should look upon her
4 face in the presence of two witnesses.
The physician accepted the legacy ana the
condition; embalmed the whimsical pene-
factress and put her for safe-keeping into
a large glass-faced English clock-case.
There the body remained for many years,
in fact until the physician died, when his
end TO the bargain, and the lady is sus--
|pected to have figured long afterward as
a mummy in a Manchester museum.
A Hertfordshire farmer named Trigg,
belief than he was only about to take
4 "a thirty years nap; so he directed his
4 cof1n to be fixed to beam in his barn,
the lid not nailed, but locked, and the
key pushed through a hole into the cof-
FIN, that he might let himself out when
he awoke. This was actually done but
when the thirty years had passed and
there was no indication of his coming
back to enjoy his property, the coffin
was taken down and buried in the usual
Some considerable time ago, a legacy
was left to a woman for 'as long as She
remained above ground" Her husband,
on her death, put a crafty Interpretation
on these words, and kept her body in a
glass case in his house for nineteen years,
during which period he regularly receiv-
ed the annuity, claiming that the wo-
man was still above ground.
1t was told that a San Francisco brol5-
er, living in the most fashionable part
of the city, kept his dead wife in the
house for over a year, determined that
not even death should part him from his
spouse He put her remains in metallic
coffin, and kept this coffin in an upper
chamber. once a week he would take it
INTO the garden and water it well. AT
length his protesting neighbors invoked
10 put his wife underground
The following is said to have been re-
eeyed by a New York undertaken from
a regular patron: Sur, my wiaf is ded
ana wontS to be berried to-morrer at
Wonner klock. u nose wair to dig the
W}sf.T 81 the said of my too uther
Numerous instances might be related
Where persons were buried in an upright
position. When Barbarossa opened the
Tomb of Charlemagne at AiX-la-Chapelle.
le found the body of the great man seat
ga on kind of throne as if alive clad
III imperial robes, bearing his scepter in
knees. -'9
1,l Ben Johnson was buried upright in
W Is Minister Abbey, as we are told in
i ilie following lines from the Ingoldsby
Even rare Ben Johnson. that famous
| l., am told is inferred there bolt upright,
IN Just such a posture, beneath his bust.
AS Tray used to sit in to beg for his
el Dr. John Gardiner is buried in the
9t,nl,oredltch churchyard in a similar pos
ttiure; while over him is headstone sta
hes b 5laI ne IS occupying his last and
There are dozens of cases where bur
as We're made without collins. In GER
C C@t4 parts of Ireland, it was once the
a a,lg IN a coffin, then remove the body
T Tlu feVerently deposit it in the earth
We, VIZ FAMILY of the St. Glars OF Rosslyn
So dor generations buried without cof-
bbiS. SIR Charles Hastings directed by
S VIII That his body be buried without
tn epln n. IN a certain spot in his park.
Zen Zen the, ground was to be planted with
- SlVIIls, that his remains might be useful
II af hourishing a sturdy British oak He
10 d legacy to his gardener to weed and
is s1 btr TINS plant, and to-day goodly oak
IL nus monument
~. ~ was the desire of a captain of Crom-
FL army to be buried with is ia
IG4eoLIte charger in the churchyard at
az Shton SPRING This would not be
i165'o9Wed; however, and sooner than part
or, oedlh with his beloved steed, he left
ou. Ours mat they should be buried in his
81 orchard, side by side.
froiIe persons have a singular taste
H.. proVlding their collins beforehand and
Ar 'iihs them as objects pleasant to look
~ a slater in Fifeshire had an odd fan
If ne made his own coffin decorated
otb WIN shells and displayed it among
bis fancy shell work i'm d room ne called
bie SIolto, A young naval surgeon had
fin ldVorlte boat converted into a cof-
his E Mnlch he kept for many years under
fro me following very singular case comes
prov russia; A married couple there had
tbs'r 'Uea themselves with collins which
EnS- utAlzed as receptacles of various
tha the 0l food. The man died, whereupon
and wow packed all the food into one
By lleu the body deposited in the other
food olhe mistake the coffin containing the
an5' was taken by the bearers and buried,
the ,neXt day the widow, on opening
Tim iu or her strange cupboard was
bo1v n struck to find therein the dead
Of o .lat she supposed was underground
over again
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