Show eccentric funerals funeral an enormous crowd gathered at chester cheater england a lew few months ago to lo witness the funeral ot of an electrical engineer who was carried to the cemetery in a coffin that had been laboriously constructed by himself out of match boxes these with their tops visible and advertising their respective makers were varnished over and strengthened inside with wood on the collin coffin was placed an electric battery some years ago a maiden lady died at caleris sur lys in france who was reported to have been a champion snuff taker her funeral was most extraordinary her wish was that her coffin should be filled with tobacco tho the floor of the mortuary chamber carpeted with it and the heir to the property charged to scatter tobacco before the tha hearse on the way to the cemetery |