Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1901 — A Queer Inscription. [ARTICLE]

A Queer Inscription.

A queer sentence closes the inscription on a tombstone In a churchyard in England. After announcing the name and other particulars of the lady there burled, these words follow: “A virtuous woman is 5s to her husband.” The explanation Is that space prevented “a crown” being cut in full, and the stonecutter argued that a crown equals ss.