Show wishes made by persons when bequests hate been scads to provide shaves and tor AIo arnera eccentric to the last the world is full of cranks as everybody knows but the great majority of them confine their eccentricities to their life upon this sphere bev of them make arrangements to keep them selves before the public eye after death but the few who do so exhibit a fertility of ideas that would have been of great value to them in the advertising line during their lives the latest exponent of postmortem post mortem crank ism was a queer old farmer of kent saratoga county this bbate who recently departed this life says the new york advertiser he left explicit directions in his will as to his burial the most noteworthy being that he should leave his favorite pair of rawhide boots as a part of his grave clothes and that he should be taken to the cemetery in the family sleigh his wishes were carried out to the letter and he was whirled up to his last resting place to he accompaniment of jingling bells and buried with his boots on A brooklyn saloonkeeper who was as jolly in life as he was fat left directions with his widow as he gasped goodby good by to set aside one hundred dollard of his estate with which to beer for his friends on the dreary acrive arive to the cemetery the widow not only provided every carriage with fifty bottles of the cheering beverage but drew on the saloon stock for two kegs ful which were emptied at the side of the coffin before it was taken from the house another saloonkeeper a staten islander whose place was a famous resort for fishermen and was himself an ardent angler often said that he would lie content in the cold ground so he made arrangements to have his body cremated and imposed the dying injunction on his friends to see thethis th athis ashes were scattered about on the salt water he loved so well from the head of the statue of liberty his wishes were religiously carried out and the funeral party returned to his old saloon and drank his health as provided in his will still another saloonkeeper whose place was well over oa the east side of town and who was an inveterate fisherman also had his ashes committed to the deep he was a member of a little fishing club that went down in a tug to romer shoals every sunday during the season he found when on his deathbed that he had but fifty dollars beyond his cremation fees and he decided to give the boys a good time with it he ordered that the money be applied to the hiring and stocking of the tug for the first trip after his death and asked that his ashes be taken along and dumped overboard at the shoals while a schooner of beer was drunk to bis memory it was done as he ordered A female keeper of a tramps lodging house in montreal is about the only woman on record who devised for herself 0 funeral on other than conventional lines she left orders that all her lodgers be provided with a shave a breakfast and a high hat with mourning ribbons and that they all follow her body to the grave behind two brass bands the bands were to play the dead march in saul on the outgoing trip but to play the girl I 1 left behind me all the way home the churches attempted to stop the carrying out of her remarkable injunctions but were unsuccessful and the old woman was serenaded as per desire the most horrible of all these grew some provisions was that made by a virginia colonel who died about awen ty five years ago in amelia county iio demanded under penalty of cutting off from all his possessions that his widow have him put in an open coffin in a clump of woods near the house and leave him there for six weeks every i morning and evening of that time she was to come to him and brush his hair and whiskers luckily the colonel shuffled off his mortal coil in the middle of a very cold winter so he kept his widow was able to carry out bis wishes therefore and came into all his property there are quite a number of cases of religious enthusiasts who have demanded to be buried in a standing poi po i so as to be all ready for the judgment day and a negro in mouths carolina was buried feet up because he believed the flat earth would be turned upside down at the first blast ofa gabriels trumpet and he wanted to be ready right side up people innumerable have had ables or mementoes buried with thema at their request and a short time ago in france a dying woman had her cat killed so that it might be buried ini her arms |