all tobacco merchants.
STRANGER, SMOKE FOR HIM!
In the city of Amsterdam, Holland, is an epitaph with words signifying in English “exactly” under a carving of a pair of slippers. The inscription is over the grave of a rich old man, who, believing that he would only live a certain number of years, divided his fortune into yearly instalments, determined to have a good time. He calculated about right, and when he was dying he paid all his debts and found that he had nothing left but a pair of slippers.
The Florenca Illustrated of Leopoldo del Migliore, a famous antiquarian, informs us that the first inventor of spectacles was Signor Salvino Armato, which is confirmed by the inscription on his tomb:
Qui Giace
Salvino D’Armato Degli Armati
Di Firenze
Inventore Degli Occhiali
Dio Gli Perdonie a Peccata
Anno D MCCCXVII.