TOOK MONEY TO HIS GRAVE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3586, 17 October 1905, Page 4

TOOK MONEY TO HIS GRAVE.

David 1.. Reynold*’ Relative* Trylna to Recover Seven Hnmlved Dollars from Corpse. With S7OO in an -inwide pocket the body of David L. Reynolds lies in a grave in Dock Crook cemetery, District of Columbia, while relatives and friends consult with lawyers as to the w-ay in which the money may bo taken from the custody of the dead and given to the use of the living. The. law prohibits the opening of a grave, except for purposes or disinterment until ten years have elapaed from the date of burial.

Reynolds died la»t January. He was known to posses* the S7OO, but it could not be found after his death. It was later learned that he carried the bilk mentioned in an inside pocket. Reynolds’ relatives are thinking of hiring an armed man to guard the grave, as they believe that after the fruits become generally known the cemetery will be besieged by ghouls, who Will bide their time until a favorable opportunity appears to open the. grave aijd rob the body.

"Ksiubt’i” Art Criticism. The old negro “mammy” of the ante-bellum type is fast disappearing, and when one does meet with the genuine article there ia generally reason to remember the occasion pleasantly. Recently a gentleman was making some purchases in a small grocery" in West Baltimore, when there entered the store one of these characters belonging to days gone by. Hanging conspicuously on the wall of the store was a large lithograph depicting an airily clad youngster in a field of waving grain. The picture immediately caught the eye of the newcomer. “Who’s dat?” she asked the clerk. “Why, that’s George Washington,’* replied the clerk, with a twinkle in his eye. “Huh!” grunted aunty dubiously. “Hit Inks mo’ lag Moses in de ambush.”—Baltimore Sun. If the stecn oi a wine glass or v*.-e is broken me ruling is sometimes pos-s-bic by r-prlying”to the joints some '• cement, nich as shellac,