Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — Queer Funeral Music. [ARTICLE]

Queer Funeral Music.

At a recent funeral in Vincennes, France, the remains were those of a man past ho. a band played a series of polkas and mazurkas and wound up with the M arse liaise at the grave. It was done in obedience to the orders left by the deceased. He said he had lived HO years and had had a good time and snw no reason for mourning over the depnrtyire.