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Show Aunt Mary's "Quiet" Funeral. A dear old Now England splnBtor, the embodiment of tho timid and shrinking, passed away at Carlsbad, whoro sho had gono for hor hoalth. Hor nearest kinsman, a nophow, or-dorod or-dorod tho body sent back to bo burlod i bb was hor last wish in tho qulot llttlo country churchyard. His sur-prlso sur-prlso can bo Imagined, whon, on opening open-ing tho caRkot, ho beheld, instead of tho placid features of his Aunt Mary, tho majestic pert of an English gon-eral gon-eral In full rcglmontals, whom ho ro-momborcd ro-momborcd had chanced to dlo at tho eamo tlmo and placo as his aunt. At onco ho cabled to tho general's holrs, explaining tho situation and requesting instructions. Tlioy camo back as 'follows: "Olvo tho gonoral quiet fu-noral. fu-noral. Aunt Mary Intorrod to day with full military honors, six brass bands, eaiutlng guns." |