Epitaphs

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 7

Epitaphs

Accustomed though we «.re to encoiintering specimens of the advertiser's art in -unexpected places, it is rather disconcerting to meet them 'n graveyards.- Yet there are a number of instances in which the sorrowing relatives of the deceased have made this .epitaph the vehicles for jaclvertise"rhent. ■.. ■■. ■■-.- : . ~.. , .-.-•. • ■ ■ •. - An'Amer'-can stonema&on, for example, erected a memorial stone to hits wife, bearing the inscription: "Here lies Jane Smith, wife .of Thomas Smith < marble-cutter. This monument was erected by her hus-

band as a t<>' bier hieniory and as a specimen of his work. Monu-merV-s : R this style, two hundred and fifty dollars.".. Equally niercanary was th.3 inscription on a gravestone in a cemetery in Paris. .For some years, a small lamp was kept burning over the gravA and the stone boro the words: "Hers lies Pierre Victor Fournier, inyentor, of .. the, .Everlasting Lamp, which consumes only one centime's worth of in one hour. He was a good father, son,,, and husband. His Inconsolable widow, continues his business in the Rue Aux Trois, Goods sent to all parts of the city. Do not mistake the opposite shop for this."

. More Halve • j's the following: "Her* lies the body of James Hambrick, vrhp was a,v-;ciclently shot in the River by a young man, with one <rf Colt's v large. revolvers, with tio stojs» per for the hammer .to rest on. ft' was . one of tine old-fashioned so*w, bra,ss-mounted: ■ and of such -is tip kingdom of Heaveii." $ i Fimally, to take aa example from our own country, an £inglisJimati pu'wr Mean caused the following lmee It be inscribed on his father's toain-' stone: . , Beneath this stone in hope of Does lie tlje landlord of the J'4<3*X}i > His son keeps on the business f?uU, Resigned unf.o the Heavenly Trtlfcy .. —3V.H.M., In the./' Daily Hcm.'^