MRS. NEWWEEDS—"I guess that would be all right. It was always the last place he ever thought of going."—Puck.


Here lies my wife: here let her lie!

Now she's at rest, and so am I.

John Dryden.


"Did you hear about the defacement of Mr. Skinner's tombstone?" asked Mr. Brown a few days after the funeral of that eminent captain of industry.

"No, what was it?" inquired his neighbor curiously.

"Someone added the word 'friends' to the epitaph."

"What was the epitaph?"