Tho wind merchants pray for—the trade winds. In a cemetery in Dunkirk, X. Y., a stone is erected over ihc remains <-f a deceased old lady, Oil which her ii'icn Is intended to write the stock epitaph : ‘' Let her vest in peace ” The Sjiace nave out the word “ her," so that only ihe initial letters of the remainder could be in-erted. Thus the old lady was consigned to the mould with tho somewhat equivocal description—“ Let her r, i. p. ”
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2133, 8 March 1870, Page 2
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80Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2133, 8 March 1870, Page 2
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