| Show THE LAY GRAVED ON THE STONE among th the mountains of bavaria roll pall mail mall gazette gazelle inscriptions in bavarian mountain communes of the earlier part of our century record the possession of the mere rudiments of schooling as a distinction of the deceased for instance here rests the w worthy orthy N N he lie was very accomplished in reading writing and reckoning raiten the local dialect for Tech rech nen the tomb of franz ammann records that he was mighty in three language languages the french the italian and the english the inscriptions iona upon the sites of accidents the so called 11 margerin Mar Mart lerin crin D which are frequent in alpine coun countries trieb are sometimes very original the author gives give a few few specimens from the ober in innthal inn thal one is quite here fell jakob from the roof of this house into eternity another with characteristic of the gypsies records in the cold year 1653 two men and two bohemians Bohem ians were drowned on this spit A verse over two graves with one common tombstone is worthy of the english old socialist priest john ball and of bishops latimer and ril kington and truo true Is the lord god here Ifer eltes lies t the he master anil and here lies bis his mn man now you world wise ones who go by b bay which Is the herr anil and which is the tho knecht the involuntary humor which is so frequent a characteristic of eglash eglish epitaphs upon tombstones OCCUM occurs as is often it would a seem eem 11 in ll th the churchyards of our teutonic cousins cu s i ns A second edition oflus of ludwi IV von Hor dormanns manns grabschrift tz ten I 1 just published at munich contains a rich r ich collection of oddities the inscription on the churchyard cross crom inthe in the commune of obersteiermark runs as follows this cross la is erected to the h honor of t ha lord jeu christ w who ho WM was cruel fled tied lor for us by the peasant peasants ot of this parish parfait the absurdity in this cabet case as the editor notes dotes is solely due to the absence of any punctuation but another in the same churchyard deserves to bo be quoted by sir wilfrid lawsha it is in memory of a brewer since the drink which he brewed his brought many to an early grave here lles at t I 1 lic lie be the hani 0 ch christian r iii say ay for or him five 1 I father Fat herf A faulty singer in tha the choir of the same commune is thus commemorated mem orated here rests Johs ll he lie was but a bad tenor tee siut up P there r la he lauh laughs at u s u e h he tec can a u now now sing so 80 perfectly per etly the original in each of these epitaphs ta ephs phs is in rhyme |
