Show TIT ron FOR TAT the detrent papers tell the following very ery good story of a gentleman of that city who was ble blessed sed with an amiable and loving 7 wife ife he had the mis mi fortun a short time since to see her prostrated on a bed of sickness bickne s which as ap perance indicated I 1 was about to make an end of her life he was excessively grieved at the prospect and out of pure desire to be employed in in some labor of love loi e as an earnest 0 of f his affection he posted off to th the e cemetery and set ali the mechanics and nursery men a work w ork and presently had so charming in a nook fitted up that it would hav hae e been a pleasure to any sensible person to be burled in in it not so with w ith the lady however and before the roses budded which were to have waved over the grave the lilies departed from her cheek the husband a bitle abashed at his over oer tempered zeal said not a word about the lot in in the cemetery but by some means she heard of it it is not pleasant to have such A close I 1 ose reminders of ones future existence and the lady felt not a little vexed at the extensive extensile preparations which her beloved had made to get her under ground she strictly followed his example and kept her own counsel but by way of retaliation posted off to the jewelers and ordered an e elegant silver coffin plate on which she had inscribed the name of ner hus husband banh with an appropriate epitaph leaving the blanks for his age and date of death this the astonished benedict found on his bureau one morning after he got up ile he saw the joke at t the he same ame time that he heard the bed clothes the plate is is now nov stowed slowed away in in the lad ladys y I 1 S writing desk as a standing offset to the flowery nook in in the old cemetery |