The Weekly comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1853-1855, 1853-12-25
Hish.spatens sJases.

| DtIlEi GHSpsi 1ittV tue 0dpthdt VI 'tpu~
! isiana demands notice ut our hand.
| An excuse has los feen wanted for the
| Comet to say something on this sub
| jeet, which is, in the first plaee, to en-
nance the value of old ron-reuaer the
sanefifv Of he erave "violable !" and
make Tie sleeping bodies Of The dead
''that tell no tales, very unsafe against
| the deptltiatlous, IT The midnight thief
| Pray. mas we ask tho question Of
Mr. Fisk aud oIher modern inventors,
''what is proposed to be accomplished
BY Ire tie metallic case : l. il desired
10 cheat nature. and illustrate her laws
IF decomposition and decay Is it
desired to hand aoWns to postefi'y In
ancient Egyptian fashion. the ratrlfied
ml,,nuies Of the great then Of this
age Is The day Of Judgement deem
I'd so close nj hand as to offer the inan
Who IL put six foot due Fast and West,
the bare chance that his body will re
main intact, until the Great High
Court If Errors and Appeals, sits 10
give final Judgements If 50 gentle
men, inventors. and diseoyerars," let
lis predict your disappointment.
Then let Us ask, Why screw man
up (vho being dead has no choice
about it, into a solid iron ease, that
tnay, perhaps, by somB ea'vahie pro-
cess, bring him TO life before the time
comes when he nay cry for help. aud
there will be no help at band. II is
wrong, radically and If it had he
desired effect Of preserving the body,
and prevent it from going bnok from
wheree it came" it would be simply
The first degree Of proximity. It is
needless to say to tho Inventors and
diseoverers. TINT Ibis hfort--and any
other ike effort, By creeks, Trojans,
u Egyptians, is simply q wasteful e8-
penditure Of human ingenuity to opur-
pose. The body will 60 baek, and if
| its soul does not enter into The .e2inpo-
sition Of other living things, in obeli-
enee to the Pythagorem theory its
body does Is it not better 10 believe
the fact that it does, and was 50 IN
tended to do instead Of making Il fa-
tile effort to petrify it, for some unborn
Barnum s Museum ? We think 50 !,
and We Ike to think that the sweet flow
or that blooms, and the ever green
ivy, are part and parcel Of the rogue.
or honest mans body, who sleeps be-
meath
We hope Mr. Fisk has not made Il
very lnrge investment iii old iron, md
that lie present stock Of cases 81 hand
may before they become faslionable)
be converted into steam engines Or
other useful apparatus.
l'ouNe AMgntoA-- 7He using
genetufioH.-lt has become fasliion~
able Of late, for some dozen of the
front rank Of Young America in this
city 70 founder around n the streets,
af the small aotsls three SHEETS I'M
lel'' aud disturb the peace. We men
tion the fact, not to call attention to II
but to make few remarks on the sub
Jet. pcrl,sps i'll timed" bit neve,tbe-
less appropriate to The occasion. We
have done such things oHefalYe4, and
therefore gre W. wiling 10 make al
reasonable allowances for the vagaties
Of yotitlu-tle FREQ and unrestraned
rising Of the generation that is to
come and stand in The shoes, u The
generation purity gone, aud still going
down to the shades l;ut there Is
nothing to excuse the obscene profan.
itv with which the modern branch