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In Crayforcl churchyard, Kent, Eng,, is found 
the following over the grave of one Peter Snell; 
Here lieth the body of Peter Snell, thirty-five years clerk 
of the parish. He lived respected as a pious and faithful man, 
and died on his way to church to assist at a wedding, on the 31st 
of March, 1711. Aged 70 years. The citizens of Crayford have 
raised this stone to his cheerful memory and as a tribute to his 
long and faithful services. 
The life of this clerk was just three score and ten, 
Nearly half of which time he had sung out Amen. 
In his youth he was married like other young men, 
But his wife died one day, so he chanted Amen. 
A second he took, she departed. What then? 
He married and buried a third with Amen. 
Thus his joys and his sorrows were treble; but then 
His voice was a deep bass as he sung out Amen. 
On the horn he could blow aswell as most men. 
So “his horn was exalted” in blowing Amen; 
But he lost all his wind after three score and ten, 
And here with his wives he waits till again 
The trumpet shall rouse him to sing out Amen. 
The following epitaph on a monument near 
Columbus, Kansas, appears sufficiently curious to 
merit publication, writes D. M. Jones of that place: 
Here lies the honest Hiram Crumm 
His eyes see not, his voice is mum. 
He believed not man-made Gods, nor creeds, 
His life was full of noble deeds. 
In St George’s Churchyard, Birmingham, to the 
memory of Jno. Butler, A. D., 1700: 
O, cruel death, how could you be so unkind. 
As to take him before and leave me behind ? 
You should have taken both of us if either. 
Which would have been more pleasing to the survivor. 
Copied from gravestone in New Boston, N. H. 
Daughter of 
GEORGE & SARAH 
JONES 
Murdered by 
HENRY N. SARGENT 
Jan. 13, 1854- 
Aet, 17 yrs. & 9 mos, 
Thus fell this lovelj' blooming daughter 
By the revengeful hand a malicious Henry 
When on her way to school be met her. 
And with a six self-cocked pistol shot her. 
Upon a lawyer: 
“Here lyeth one, believe it if you can 
Who, though an attorney, was an honest man_ 
The gates of heaven for him shall open wide,. 
But will be shut ’gainst all tb.e tribe beside.” 
There has been going the rounds of the press an 
item entitled “A cemetery sold for taxes, ”'in which 
Mountain Home cemetery, Kalamazoo, Mich., fig- 
ures as the principal. The item is misleading, the 
facts being as follows: 
Some three years since the city had paved a 
small strip in front of one end of cemetery, for 
which the assessment amounts to some forty-five 
dollars. Since the paving was done the city has 
caused a certain culvert to be constructed, thereby 
throwing into the cemetery gutter an amount of 
water damaging the gutter and embankment in a 
large sum. The city was asked through the proper 
committee to remit the tax and the Association 
would not ask for payment of damages. The city 
has from time to time (not officially) said it would. 
When the city advertised sale for delinquent taxes 
the above tax was included. Section 3 of articles 
of incorporation shuts off the power of selling etc. 
and by subsequent legislation the cemetery is for- 
ever exempt from tax of any kind, even its securities 
or otherwise. Of course if the tax is not remitted it 
will be paid under protest and the city will be sued. 
The Chinese, some three years ago. purchased a burial plot 
in Cypress Hills cemetery, Brooklyn, in which they have tem- 
porarily deposited some two hundred celestials. It is oblong in 
shape, surrounded by an iron bar railing, supported on white 
marble posts. Everything is neat and clean. The plot is 
guarded by marble tablets on which are cut particulars of pur- 
chase and names of purchasers, the purpose to which the plot is 
devoted, a number of extracts from Confucius, all in Chinese 
characters. There are other tablets and at the back of the lot 
the sacrificial altar. The graves are long, narrow mounds, lying 
side by side, in rows of from 15 to 20, each marked by a small 
marble head stone, containing name, age, rank and place of birth 
of deceased, in Chinese. The headstones are also numbered to 
prevent mistakes by undertakers. The superstitions of the Chi- 
nese carry them into the exercise of curious rites at their funeral 
ceremonies, exceedingly interesting to students of the manners 
and customs of different peoples. Every Chinaman expects to 
be buried in his native country and the result is that the bodies 
are only left in their Brooklyn resting place for five years, when 
the bones are collected and cleaned, and after due ceremony 
forwarded to China for final disposition. 
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The Rural Cemetery of St. Johns, N. B., after an existence 
of some fifty >ears under the old order of cemetery management 
is as rapidly as possible being brought into conditions more be- 
coming to modern ideas. An enlightened management and an 
energetic superintendent, who have spent time and means in- 
specting many of our advanced Eastern Cemeteries, are to be 
credited with the rapid progress in improvement now going on. 
Perpetual and annual care are being introduced, and American 
rules, adapted to Canadian custom, are creating changes 
which are evidently meeting with the approval of those inter- 
ested. Mr. J. R. Riiel, president of the corporation, has added 
an attractive memorial fountain in memory of his late wife and 
son. It is the intention to shortly erect a shelter house for visit- 
ors, not far from the above fountain, and at a spot which com- 
mands fine views of the grounds. It is gratifying to note that 
these improvements follow right in the line of suggestions fre- 
quently urged in these columns, and that Mr. Clayton, the sup- 
perintendent, recognises their worth as equally valuable for our 
Canadian neighbors. 
