Show A Tombstone Comedy London Telegraph Kingstonon I Thames is a town full of wonderful curiosities cu-riosities Its latest acquisition is a tombstone in search of someone to commemorate com-memorate The monument is ready and willing to record the virtues of anyone who will oblige it by becoming its subterranean sub-terranean tenant At the last meeting of the local burial board the subject of this peripatetic tombstone was gravely discussed by the members It appears that the sepulchral embellishment embellish-ment was originally placed over the last resting place of a married woman by her sister and a second wife of the same husband was subsequently placed by her side Thereupon the sister of the first house removed the monument to a part of the cemetery where she had purchased a tomb but which happily hap-pily is still untenanted and declines to allow it to be restored to its proper place The occupants of that spot are consequently deprived of the rightful record of their virtues while the tombstone tomb-stone uselessly marks a grave which contains nobody The clerk expressed the opinion that a family feud was at the bottom of the whole business One member said that what he objected to was the inscription beginning Here lieth As nobody was underneath some people might attach a wrong meaning to the verb and the truthfulness truthful-ness of the community be undermined To avoid such a catastrophe it was resolved re-solved to request the sister either to kindly arrange to have some one interred in-terred underneath the stone with promptitude and dispatch or restore it to its original position |