Smiles And Tears
Gejieral Patriek A. Collins remarles that ' there is substantial in f ame unless you have got a bank ajcount to support it. " James Gibson. wlio flrei the first g-un at Fort Sumter, is still at Erie, Pa. He was a soldier in tha United States service for ma ïy years. There are no undertakers in Japan. When a person dies it is the custoin for his nearest relatives to put liim in a eoffin and bury him. aud the m varningdoes not beg-in until af ter tiurial. The Japanese for g-ood Í3 "O-hi-o. :' A Buekeye who was traveling- over there wrote home that the only one of our states the Japs seemed to know anything about was Ohio. ísegro graves in the far South are sometimes curiously g-arnished with the bottles of medicine used by the departed in their final illness, and the duration of the malady is easily guessed by the number of bottles. There is a mourner's corner in one of the cloak rooms of the national house of representatives and another in the senate cloak room, where the disappointed and disg-runtled congreg-ate to express their dissatisfaetion with the order of things. There, it is averred, statesmen gather to sit with the corpses of their dead hopes and ambitions. An eighteenth century tombstone in the old Catholic burying1 ground at Concord, Mass., proves tbat the best intended epitaphs may with the lapse of time takeonanironicalsignifioance. The stone stands awry, is fast crumbling-, and shows the discoloration of a century's exposure and negleet, but it still bears in legible saüracters this now inoongruous inseription: "This stone is e'rected, by its duvability to perpetúate the memory, and by its color to sig-nify the moral character of Miss Abaguil Dudley."
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