Halifax Local Opinion. — 1892-12-13 (Halifax, West Yorkshire, England)

SOME DROLL EPITAPHS.  is said that the following epitaph comes from Cali,: loraia, but it is a remarkable piece of antiquated mortuary humour LI memory ov Join. Smith, who met Wierlent death near this spot 18 hundred and 40 too. He was shot by his own pistell ; It was not one of the new kind, but a old fashioned brass barrel, and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The following is another example of the rather loose way the engravers of the epitaphs managed to jumble up with the text scriptural quotations, and it has the advantage of being apparently genuine. It is copied from a tombstone in Pennsylvania  " B%ttle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862 John D. R.- we born M .I,rA 28, 1839, in the town of West Dresden, State of New York, where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest." The efforts to comprise within the space of a small epitaph (the cost of cutting eAch letter being a matter of serious cDnsideration in many cases) a description of the ciuse of death very frequently lead to curious results, as witness the following from a churchyard in Glastonbury, Conn.  The writer copied some three years ago three lines from the stone over the grave of a little girl, the first who was killed in the Glasgow streets by the stages, or omnibuses, as they are called there—which also were of a practically descriptive character. They are as foll?w "Here lies the body of Jane Gray, The manner of her death was thus; She was druv over by a 'bus."  The c)rifusion of sentences sometimes leads to curious mistakes, as witness the following from a cemetery near Cincinnati :  "Here lies Who came to this city and died for the twnefit of his health."  This is as fine as the closing sentence of the epitaph on the gravestone of a stationmaster who was killed on the Glasgow. and South-Western Ri.ilway near Kilmarnock, in Ayrshire, some thirty years : "Heage died uncomplaining in No pain without medical Here is a very fair specimen of the blundering bull class of epitaphs. It is from the 03tloo11c burying-ground, Keesevilk, New York  "ll9re lies the bodies of two sisters dear; Of:le's buried in Ireland, the other lies here."  • 61-, I ~,ohyq,rd, Yorkßhire ;,;kazGdlmg, who, in 1758, returning from Richmond, was Shet on the road near Oliver packet, and  the murderer, in spite of all efforts, was never discovered : "Unto the murder of young John Moore, Who fell a victim to some villain's power; In Richmond Lane, near to Ask Hall, 'tis said, There was his life most cruelly betrayed; Shot with a gun by some abandoned rake, Then knocked o' th' head with a hedging stake."  The following epitaph, accompanied by a rude carving of a horse kicking a man in the stomach, is copied from a tombstone in Williamsport, Pennsylvania : "sacred to the memory of Henry Harris, Born June 271, 1821, of fienry Harris and Jane his wifz; Died on the 4th of May, 1837, by the kick of a colt in the -be-rwek. Peaceable and quiet, a friend to his father and mother, and respected by all who knew him, and went to the world where horses _  don't kick, where sorrow and weeping is no more."  In Hackney Churchyard, on Peter Stiller : As still as death poor Peter lies, And Stiller when alive was he; Still not without a hope to rise, Though Stiller than he still will be,