New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-10-15
STUDY OF OLD EPITAPHS.
FOREIGN AND HOME GRAvEYARDs RICH
IN QUEER INSCRIPTIONS.
A QUAINT DIGNITY ATTACHES EVEN TO EXPIRES
sIoNs THAT MAKE ONE sMIIE-A GENE
Terry WHERE FoRTY-NINERs REST.

QUAINT DIGNITY ATTACHES EVEN TO EXPIRES
sIoNs THAT MAKE ONE sMn.E-A GENE
Terry WHERE FoRrY-NINERs REST.
Nine Emma Calve has selected the design for
her own monument It will represent Nine.
Calve as Ophella drawn toward the void by phan-
tom voices. II is to be made by NJ. Denys Puech
and will be exhibited at the Paris Exposition In
1900.
Women. It is said. have always had eye out
for the picturesque and artistic In the matter Of
their taking of and attendant ceremonies. There
is the old Irish mother who has saved and scrimped
these many years in order to have "fne, dacint
burying with plenty Of candles and lots Of kerr
ridges" and who has given strict injunctions to
put that bit Of the "old turf" that has been tied
up In a handkerchief and saved against this grea
event ever since she left County Clare way back
in the sixties. Even DR.. Mary Walker has al
ready had her portrait taken clad in Immaculate
broadcloth and linen and stretched in the attitude
Of long repose In her chosen casket There is no
difference.
Scores Of women there are to-day IN country
hamets who take as much pride in their spare
room bureau drawer full OF burying clothes as
though II trousseau. Every spring they
bring out the fine garments and bleach and press
them then lay them back in tidy piles. with sprigs
Of lemon verbena ready against tho day Of need
though II come thief In the night.
Not only are the eccentricies Of human lft
made manifest In the flesh. but they are often per
petuated on the memorial tablets OF Gods Acre.
where are convened
The great silent assembly. tho meeting Of shadows.
speaketh. but all arc still and the peace and rest
are unbrokPni. Co.,
English people show a greater willingness 70
carry out the wishes Of dead men. even II absurd.
than do Americans. Jeremy Bentham. the expo
nent Of the doctrine Of utitarianism dying in
hOdy he 10
sected. and that; the skeleton should be put
gether. and after being clothed In his old vest
ments should be seated In sort OF glass house
on wheels. The first part Of tho programme was
performed by his faithful disciple. DR.. Southwood
Smith, who in endeavor.ng TO preserve tho hend
deprived the face OF all expression. Seeing this
would not do for exhibition. Dr. Smith had a model
made In by a French artist. who succeeded
In producing likeness
The skeleton was then stuffed out to At Ben
tham's own clothes. and the wax likeness fitted
to the trunk. This figure seated the chair
in which Benthnm usually sat- with ono hand
holding tho walking stick which his constant
companion in life The whole was inclosed In
mahogany case with glass front covered by fold
ing DOORS and presented to University College.
Gower-st. where II can be seen In the south gal
lery OF the college museum.
In pillar OF a church in Narburg there Is a
singular Inscription inserted about six feet from
the HoOT. IL DehTb INC maine, uhte OF DiTtn ana
death Of Clement Spelman. Recorder Of Noting
ham. who died in 1919 The Recorder had always
expressed n desire to he buried In upright po-
sition In OF the pillars Of the church. and his
wish was carried out The inscription plate is in
serted Just over his face
A record Of OF the cases Of a woman
lighting In a regiment for many years side by side
with men is TO be found in a cemetery at Brighton
England The tombstone the grave
erected and Is cared for by the officers Of the
Fighting sth" Regiment. and bears this nscrip-
ton:
In memory Of Phoebe Hessel. who was born
stepney in the year l7l3: She served for man.
years as a soldier in the 5th Regiment In differen
parts OF Europe, and In the 1745 fought unie!
the command OF the Duke Of Cumberland In thu
battle OF Fontenoy. where she received a bayonct
wound In her arm. Her long life extended from
the reign Of Queen Anne to that Of George ".
from which monarch she received comfort and sup
port In her later years. She died at Brighton. De-
cember IL. 1921 aged l0s
Death has no power to quench the flow Of Irish
wit and native love Of a pun. as the following in
scripton in old cemetery In Ireland will show:
Here lies Ann Mann. who lived o.d maid and
died old Mann
Another TO scolding wife reads:
Here underneath this lump Of clay.
Lies Arabella Young.
Who on the twenty-ninth Of May.
Gave up the use OF tongue.
The following inscriptions are from tombstones
IN tho Old Copps Hill buryng ground. near the
Old North Church, Boston. Nearly all have crude