Glasgow Cathedral is an epitaph, which is engraved on the lid of a very old sarcophagus, discovered in the crypt:

   In a grave-yard at Montrose, in Scotland, this inscription may still be seen:

   This brief announcement may be read in Wrexham church-yard, Wales:

   In a church-yard near London the following may be deciphered:

   There is an unqualified Hibernianism in the following:

   A good deal of positive information is conveyed in this epitaph:

   To the victim of an accident:

   "Here lies the body of James Hambrick which was accidentally shot in the Pacas River by a young man with one of Colts large revolvers with no stopper for the hand for to rest on. It was one of the old fashioned sort, brass mounted and of such is the Kingdom of Heaven."

   William Curtis, who was famous for his bad grammar, may have composed his own epitaph:

   In a church-yard in London, evidently written by a Cockney:

   In Trinity church-yard, New York, this inscription may be read:

   Upon a stone, under the Grocers' Arms, is this inscription, in memory of Garrard, a tea-dealer:

   The value of phonetic spelling is set forth in this terse memorial:

   Resignation and an eye to the main chance are combined in the following:

   In a church-yard in Wiltshire, England:

   On Mrs. Sarah Newman:

   An inscription to four wives:

   "To the memory of my four wives, who all died within the space of ten years, but more perteckler to the last Mrs. Sally Horne who has left me and four dear children, she was a good,

    sober

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