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Show Will be Hurled In a Chair. Amesbury, Mass., Jan. 27. Tho last request of Reuben Smith, an eccentrlo old man who died here Tuesday, is to be carried out in detail, and ho will bo buried in a chair, wearing a slouch hat, and his costly marble tomb will bo scaled up by brlekmasons. Mr. Smith camo here in 1807 from lluffalo, N. Y., and nothing Is known of his early Ufa or his relatives. Through dread of being be-ing placed in the ground ho built a marble sarcophagus last fall. Ho arranged ar-ranged that his body should bo placed therein in a chair, and under no consideration con-sideration was it to bo nut in a casket or burled In tho ground. The entrance will bo sealed up with a wall of brick, tho outer steel door locked and the key destroyed. L. T. llartlett, who has charge, of Mr. Smith's affairs, will have ovcry wish of tho dead man carried ouL |