CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, the discoverer of America, died May, 1506, aged 70, and was, after four times removing, finally taken to Havanna, in the island of Cuba. Ferdinand, king of Spain, ordered a monument to be erected to his memory, with this inscription :— "Por Castilla y por Leon,

Neuvo mundo hallo Colon."
For Castile and Leon,
A new world found Colon.*

On a Sailor

"I've weather'd many a stormy sea,
But now life's arduous service o'er,
I yield my spirit, Lord, to thee,

And hail with joy a happier shore."

On a Soldier :

"Here lies releas'd from trouble, care, and sin,
A soldier, whose chief conquests were wгTHIN :
His evil habits were his greatest foes,

And long before his death he conquer'd those."

His Spanish name.

UNFORTUNATE PERSONS.

IN St. Lawrence's churchyard, York:

"To the memory of 4 Sons and 2 Daughters of John and Ann Rigg, city of York. These 6 young

persons, the eldest of whom was 19, and the youngest 6 years of age, being with some others on a party of pleasure, on the River Ouse, were drowned, together with one of their young companions, by the upsetting of the boat, August 19th, 1830, within a short distance from their home.

Mark the brief story of a summer's day!

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At noon, Youth, Health, and Beauty launch'd away;
Ere eve, Death wreck'd the bark, and quench'd their
Their Parents' home was desolate at night;
Each pass'd alone that gulf no eye can see;
They met, next moment, in Eternity.

Friend! kinsman! stranger! dost thou ask me, Where?
Seek God's right hand; and hope to find them, There.”

To the memory of SE, an intelligent and miable boy, who was unfortunately drowned while bathing:

"Though gentle as a dove, his soul sublime,
For heaven impatient, would not wait for time;
Ere youth had bloom'd his virtues ripe were seen,
A man in intellect! a child in mien!

A hallow'd wave from mercy's fount was pour'd,
And, wash'd from clay, to bliss his spirit soar'd."

On a gravestone in Prince Edward's Island is the following inscription :

"Here lie the remains of THOMAS LAMB, killed by a great big tree falling upon him, slap bang."-Newsprs.

In Bronlly's churchyard, Breconshire, on a man who was killed by a fall from a waggon load of hay :"Man's life's a vapour, and

Full of woes;
He cuts a caper, and

Down he goes."

In Wickham-Market churchyard, Suffolk :

"HARMOND GARRETT, died Dec. 21st, 1818, aged 68.
My sledge and hammer lie reclined,
My bellows too have lost their wind;
My fire's extinct-my forge decay'd,
My vice is in the dust all laid.
My coal is spent-my iron's gone,

My nails are drove my work is done.

My life was lost by being Drowned,

Still Christ may please to see me Crowned."

In Oakham churchyard, Surrey :

"The Lord saw good-I was lopping off wood,
And down fell from the tree;

I met with a check, and I broke my neck,
And so death lopp'd off me."

In a small churchyard near Folkstone is the following :

"This stone is sacread to the memory of poor old Muster THOMAS BOXER, who was loste in the goud boate Rouver, just coming home with much fishes, 'got near Torbay, in the year of hour Lord 1722.

Prey, goud fishermen stop and drop a tear,
For we have lost his company here

And where he's gone we cannot tell,

But we hope far from the wicked Bell.*
The Lord be with him."

As in the mead where I had often play'd,
Close by the Pond's gay brink I sportive stray'd,
With guileless thought I stoop'd to pluck a flower,
Nor reck'nd I ought of Death, the chance or power.
Beneath the fatal Pool I sunk my head,

And my fond parents weep me early dead.
But, Parents dear, mourn not your drowned Child,
His tender heart by sin was ne'er beguil'd;

'Twas God's just will, whence all your joys were given;
Stop Nature's tears and cease to envy Heaven.
Go, Manly reader; thy desires control,

Avoid those dangerous lures that drown the Soul."

* A public house.

In the churchyard of Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucestershire :

"Here lie the bones of RICHARD LAWTON,

Whose death, alas! was strangely brought on;
Trying one day his corns to mow off,

The razor slipped, and eut his toe off;
His toe, or rather what it grew too,
An inflammation quickly flew too,
Which took, alas! to mortifying,
And was the cause of Richard's dying."

In the churchyard of Christ-church, Hampshire :

"E. N.

At the Ester end of this free-stone
here doeth ly the Letle Bone
of WALTER SPURRER, that fine Boy
that was his Friends only Joy.
He was Drownd at Melhams Bridg,
the 20th of August, 1691."

In Woodbridge churchyard :

"Here lieth the Bodie of

BENIAMIN BRINKLEY,
Who though Lustie and
Strong Was one

That by Misfortune Shot
Himself With a Gun

In the 23rd year of his Age;
He departed this Life

To the Grief of his Parents
Spectators and Wife
March the 27th, 1723."