The Somerset reporter., 1896-09-17

A SEXTON RELATI5 s0Mt CURIOUS
FACTS CONCERNING IT.

Costly Monuments Ereefed Over Dead
Pups lay Their Sentimental Owners Po-
etieal Epitaph- and nibheaI Texts sitting
Forth tho Virtues of the departed.
Toilet clubs are net thc only luxury
that dogs enjoy in common with man
kind; they are panpered also with
cemeteries
On the northwestern outskirts Of Lon
don. in fine old country mansion,
surrounded by EXTENSIVE grounds, lives
and labors one of tn Wealthiest and
most fashionable Of veterinary surgeons,
who numbers among his customers va
rious members of the royal family. mauy
persons of title and distinguished lead
ers of society-in fact. ms prices arc SO
handsome that ordinary middle class
mortals cannot afford TO avail them
selves of his sesvices.
He Is a dog specialist, leaving all the
remainder of the animal kingdom i'll the
hands Of other practitioners. and the
fact that he has made Il very comfort
able fortune justifes lin in ms cxclu-
slyencsS. And not only Will he tend the
canine species when they are ailing, but
he Is prepared to bury them when they
die and to bury them. moreover, with
the most gratifying paRcantry and
decorum.
The cemetery reserved for this pur.
pose Is i'll corner Of "a field on his
estate; but, being inclased by IA wall and
planted about with trees, nothing of
the interior Is visible either from his
own windows or from any point of the
surrounding country, 50 that few, if
any, of the neighbors are aware thar
such IA place Of sepuleher exists IN the
midst of them.
''Some of the dawes buried here, "
said an attendant, showing the favored
inquirer round, died while we had
'em under treatment IN hospital, rs YOU
may say, but many Ct 'eln died i'll their
OWL homes and was brought rs much as
six and seven miles 10 thtiI funeral "
The hcadstones and monuments i'll
this singular cemetery are as large and
often as costly as any placed above the
average human body, and the epntaphs
ON them are not Infrequemtly quite as
eulogistic
This one here, observed tie attend
ant, pointing ont il particularly neat
and we'll kept grave With "a red marble
ohelisk at the head Of It. Us where two
pug dawgs We're buried. They belonged
to an old lady who brought I'm over
with her from Paris. She had en- for
several years, and We were always be
ing called in Ia doctor On. though they
were always suffering from nothing but
overlooking. At last one day they
We're both taken i'll .ogcthcr-thcy d
eaten something as WISH good fer 'cm
and they died. She WIS dreadful cut
up about lt-she couldn't have been
more SO If they'd been chldren-and
she had 'cm buried here III two as neat
little tirtlght collins as ever you see.
She comes every now and then on IL Wis
ii, and she pays our gardener - shil-
hngs year extra specially to water the
flowers She planted on the grave and
keep it all tidy.
Nov, here we have what yon may
call a family vault, winch belongs to n
nubleman rs you see for yourself on
the tablet OVER the doorway 1t s deep
and lined With bricks. and You godown
into 1t by Il flight Of steps. There's six
lead lined collins. If you look through
the grating III the door, you II see the
names and ages on the stone that covers
the opening His lordship's uncommon
fond of his dawgs, and whenever IA fresh
one dies it's brought up here and the
vaults opened for IT. We've another
vault like tins, which well come to
presently, only it belongs to lady
"Oh, yes; | think | may say every
dawg is buried IN "a box of some sort
and fair proportion of EN- III proper
collins, brass mounted and everything
You'd hardly believe how some Of the
owncrs viii cry at the funeral. It's
mostly ladies that bury their pets here
OF course As IA rule, they've got more
sentiment about tins sort of thing than
men have. Nearly all of 'cm come reg
ular for the first few weeks With
wreaths and punches Of flowers, but the
majority Of EN- begin to drop that after
"a month or two. Though there 5 IA daWg
buried yonder-scc that fiat stone with
a railing round 1.-THE old lady has
come ON the anniversary of his death
every year since INchecn here, and that
nigh eight years nov, and she seems
rs sorry about him still as if he'd been
"a Christian like me and you.
Another remarkable feature of this
cemetery is that, besides the names and
ages of the dogs inferred and III many
instances tlattering records of their viz
tues, some of the tombstmcs are inscrih-
ed with puetical quotations and, incrcd-
ible as 1t may sound, even with Biblical
texts. London TIt-Bits.
street Railways In Philadelphia.
BY the greet railway statement 1t
appears that there are within the city
limits 3lGi2 miles Of streets now occu-
pied by passenger railways and llG34
miles on winch street ear privileges