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." On a Sailor "I've weather'd many a stormy sea, And hail with joy a happier shore." On a Soldier : "Here lies releas'd from trouble, care, and sin, 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! [light, At noon, Youth, Health, and Beauty launch'd away; Friend! kinsman! stranger! dost thou ask me, Where? To the memory of SE, an intelligent and miable boy, who was unfortunately drowned while bathing: "Though gentle as a dove, his soul sublime, A hallow'd wave from mercy's fount was pour'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; Down he goes." In Wickham-Market churchyard, Suffolk : "HARMOND GARRETT, died Dec. 21st, 1818, aged 68. 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, I met with a check, and I broke my neck, 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, And where he's gone we cannot tell, But we hope far from the wicked Bell.* As in the mead where I had often play'd, And my fond parents weep me early dead. 'Twas God's just will, whence all your joys were given; 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; The razor slipped, and eut his toe off; In the churchyard of Christ-church, Hampshire : "E. N. At the Ester end of this free-stone In Woodbridge churchyard : "Here lieth the Bodie of BENIAMIN BRINKLEY, That by Misfortune Shot In the 23rd year of his Age; To the Grief of his Parents |