The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-21
HUMOR IN TOMBsTONEs.
A Freak Monument to Two Men
Combined in One Figure.

San Francisco Examiner.
1t is not often that a man of property,
instead of bequeathirg it to his relatives,
wills that all his estate. after paying debts
should be expended for a monument TO be
placed over his grave, but this eccentricity
has been perpetrated by a man who died
some months ago in an American town.
His executor in accordance with the
provisions of the will, is having a monu-
ment constructed which, when erected, will
have cost no less a sum then $20OOQ-the
total value of the estate left by the de-
ceased man. The monument required four
large flat, specially constructed wagons
for transportation. and the difficult task
of handling il overland to the cemetery re-
quired the united efforts of twenty-seven
horses and a dozen men.
The base is a granite block ten feet
square and weighs about sixteen tons The
wheels of the wagons are of solid wood
about thirty inches in diameter, with tires
fifteen inches wide and it has been ne
cessary to strengthen all the bridges over
which the load will have to pass. The up-
per part of the monument the coplngs and
ornamental work win be of solid marble
A monument with head which does
not belong TO it is decidedly a curiosity
There is one, however in the parish
church Of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. 1t is
of Sir Richard Holmes, who fought under
Prince Rupert and was governor of the
Isle of Wight from 1867 to 1892. This has
the body of Louis XIV and the head of
Sir Richard. The statue was seized from
a ship on it's way to France, and the
sculptor who was on board, was compelled
by Holmes to replace the head of the
great Louis by his own.
An eccentric citizen of Lincoln has what
might be termed original mortuary ideas
He recently erected a tombstone to the
memory OF his son, who died in 1891 The
stone is of white marble, set on a sand
stone base, and has been cut in the exact
shape of an odd-fashioned travelling satch-
ell. The son was of an unsettled disposition
and Travelled "a great deal, and his fathers
idea was to commemorate the fact in the
tombstone.
The inscription above the name on the
plate reads Here Is Where He Stoned
Last" and underneath are the date of
death and the age. The sandstone base of
the monument was cut from a large bowl
der which the father hauled from his own
farm, and the stone naturally is the curl
osity of the neighborhood
curious monument has just been dis
covered In the dense underground of the
so-called Brandhai, in the Upper Harz. II
is a granite block about seven feet high
resting on stone pedestal, and on the
iron tablet attached 10 it is the following
inscription: Here, in the year 1747. The
first trials were made with the cultivation
of the potato"
The German peasant of the time did M,
take kindly to the potato plant on its in
PRODUCTION to the country. Ii had, however
great friend in the King Frederick ii.
who was convinced of its value, but who
was Obliged TO use forcible measures to get
the people of Pomerania and Silesia to
plant the bulb. The action of the Harz-
ers In voluntarily adopting the plant was
evidently thought worthy Of a memorial.