Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1898 — No Use for Funerals. [ARTICLE]

No Use for Funerals.

Fox—Of course you are going to Biggin’s funeral this afternoon? Knox—Of course I am not. I have an aversion to attending funerals. Fox—Yes, but Biggins was a friend of yours; you can certainly make an exception in his favor. Knox—An exception in his favor? Why, man, I wouldn’t go to my own funeral if I could help it. A certificate of deposit reciting that it is “to be left six months,” and adding, “No . interest after maturity,” is held, in Towle vs. Starz (Minn.) 36 L. R. A. 463, to be a time and not a demand certificate, and that to hold an indorser payment must be demanded at the end of six months on the last day of grace. H. J. Jones, of Cincinnati, bought a violin a few years ago for $75, and gave it to his daughter. While it was being repaired recently he accidentally discovered that it was an Instrument he himself had made in 1848 as an experiment, and sold for $5.