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Show Uoiitlit H! Coma mil Uid. A wealthv but rather eccentric gentle- j man named" Ramouding recently died in Par and by his will the widows and orphans of tho victims of the terrible explosion ex-plosion in the mines near St. Etienne are left over 1,000.000 francs. Ramouding, previous to his death, created some astonishment aston-ishment by ordering a coffin of a special pattern, a step which h followed up by purchasing some ground in the cemetery, in which also by his instructions a vault was built. Room was allowed in tho subterranean chamber for thne coffins. "I shall be quite t my ease," was the grim replv of M. Ramouding to some one who interrogated him on the subject. Mondav was devoted to the inditing of a number of letters, but no suspicions m to have been excited by the man's strange conduct. The following morning he waf found dead. New York World. j |