The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-14
7THE MINNEAPOLIS JOTJRNATl
Curiosaities Of Funerals

The body of Richard Brettel, ebert
sey solicitor, was taken to it's last rest
ing place IN four-Wheeled farm wagon.
painted red and blue, and drawn by two
farm horses. while six farm laborers
acted as escort to the novel hearse and
carried the coffin into the church. The
coffin Of John Times, J.P., "a wealthy
Surrey landowner, was also placed i'll.
q wagon, n.company with several
sheaves of wheat, and drawn by four
farm horses to Merton churchyard4
/. When. Burke Nicholson, wull-known
brewers drayman of Scarborough, took
his last journey not long ago, it was
In his own dray, on each side of which
walked stalwart brewers men, the long
procession consisting largely Of his fell
low -Workmen. More remarkable still
was the funeral of Horatio Bright, a
wealthy and eccentric Sheffield manu-
facturer. Mr.. Bright's coffin. placed
IN an ordinary cab, followed by another
cab containing the undertaken, men
was driven over the bleak moorIand to
the magnificent mausoleum at Moscar,
IN which the deceased had spent many
an hour during his lifetime sitting by
the collins Of his first wife and son.
When Mrs. Margaret Cousins, a lady
Of Kent, departed this life her body
was dressed in gorgeous costume of
scarlet silk, and her coffin was placed,
under a pyramid-shaped monument, in
a vault with green silk-curtained
down and the door was left unlocked,
so that the good lady should have am
pie facilities for escape in case Of pre-
mature burial
Mrs. George Norton, an American
lady, was, at her own wish, buried sit
ting upright in the chair in which she
had spent so many hours as an invalid.
Jack Hustler, a coal-hcwcr Of Tong,
near Leeds, sleeps his last sleep in a
coffin made to his own specification
twenty years before his death; his pill
low is a block of coal, and by his side
are his favorite pipe and tobacco; while
lady Of North London rests in a COT
fin made from the four-post bedstead
on which she had spent the last quarter
of a century of her life.
David Evans Of Garth, Llangollen
was laid to rest near Carnarvon, in the
company of his pipe, tobaceo-pouch and
walking-stick, dressed in his best suit
and wearing his favorite sealskin cap.
John Underwood Of Whittlesea. Cam
bridgeshire. had for his last pillow a
copy Of Horace; under his feet was
placed Bentley's Milton and other
treasured volumes were placed by his
sides and under his back. s,
A Wigan lady, by her request, was
inferred in a blue coffin; and a .dustman,
who fourished nearly century ago,
had for a hearse a dust-ca covered with
black baize; at the head Of his funeral
procession walked twelve link-bearers,
followed by a dozen men carrying dust
men s whips and shovels reversed !;
twelve dustmen and brickmakers, in
white fannels and leather breaches,
acted as pallbearers, and the rest of the
procession consisted of dustcarts, bear
ing cinder-sifters, dustmen and chin
ney sweeps. tS@
When a well-known merchant Of Cork
was buried short time since, a phcno-
graph, placed on his coffin, was turned
on, and the mourners listened to the
deceased s voice singing the final requ-
lem Of the absolution. Thomas G. Han
nahoe left instructions that a clay pipe
and a pouch of tobacco should, be placed
at the head of his grave, and that four
Of his friends, with bugle, eornet and
clarionet, should play a selection of
Irish airs by his graveside on every
St. Patrick Day.
A curious funeral took place short
time since at Goeschenen, in Switzer-
land, when coffin was inferred con
tanning portion Of leg, a boot, some
fragments of garments and 4 few
francs, all that could be recovered of
a mayor of the commune and two citi-
zens Of Berne, who persisted eighteen
years earlier in glacier.-Tit-Bits