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How's long stubborn adherence to a skimpy vegetable diet (a plate of pea soup was often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation...
Two years ago Dr. Wiley remarked: "I am not sitting down and moping over methods of postponing my funeral; I am just forgetting it." But last April he made his will devising virtually all his property ?farm lands in Virginia and Maryland, fruit groves in Florida,? scientific books...
Many a Swede mourned last week the passing of Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe. To honor properly the total extinction of a great name three Swedish dignitaries in funeral frock coats and toppers climbed into a teetering rowboat and rowed out to the middle of a lake.
Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe, died at his castle of Skokloster. To his funeral came Sweden's King, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and a delegation of Swedish nobles. With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm...
*More ancient Scandinavians would have laid the dead noble, with his arms and funeral trappings, upon a funeral barge which then would have been fired, set adrift.