Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-17
Price Four Cenfss

full manner in a few seconds dis solves Q corpse into it's smallest clements When one watches the progress of destruc- ton, one sees the corpse disappear so quick ly that it appears as if the liquid took possess sion of it and literally ate it up. As soon az the corpse is laid upon 1t, the liquid foams, and the body burns brightly, without odor, and changes into transparent, clear, gaseous substances, which are not to be distinguished from atmospheric air. In the liquid only the white ashes remain, and if one wishes one can easily by filtration separate them" Cor inl estimates the cost of such cremation at about six francs.
 The systems of cremation suggested have been various. That of the before mentioned celebrated Dr. Giovanni Polli, of Milan. pre- sents perhaps the fewest disadvantages The corpse is enclosed in great coffer of cast iron and reduced to ashes by Illuminating gas. There is no odor and the process is in visible.
 E. Siemans, in Dresden, is the inventor of an oven which is simple and practicable. Sir Henry Thompson, of London, burnt by it Q pig weighing 227 pounds to white ashes with III 45 minutes. There was no perceivabIe gas, and not the slightest trace of smoke Every thing was consumed.
 At Paris recently the municipality discus sed the project of making new cemeteries at a greater distance from the city. Various Par 1slan journals had already recommended ere. nation; member of the municipality there upon officially proposed ''that the cemetery question be abandoned, and six months be devoted to the study of the best method of burning the dead"
 In Italy cremation will, think, be readily adopted, as the cheapest, most hygienio and quickest way of disposing of corpses. Gene rally speaking, the Italian has 8 superstitious dread of the dead. I have known persons in Italy to refuse even to enter @ room where, a dead person had lain. The municipal law i'll some cities, requires that ths body be conveyed to the dead house within 12 hours after death once related to friend of mine, 8 Neapolitan lawyer, our custom of keeping the day three days
 But" he rejoined, in his imperfect Eng fish, Feet ees so disgusting to have dead body in the house '"
 replied: "Amico mic, love prevents us from parting with a dear relative sooner"
 He answered 1T coude not eat ting"
 made the reproachful observation, that Ian appetite could not be expected under the circumstances"
 ''Yas, yas, caro mic, your coustum is no ble, ma corpo al dio, mi venga, brividi, solo pensarci" (shivers run over me at the very idea.)
 What prejudices can a Neapolitan have against cremation? There are certainly more pleasant sights than the huge pits in Naples into which are thrown naked the corpses of young and old of both sexes. I suppose most of my readers know that the common people of Naples arc thrown after death into deep pits. Lime is then thrown on them, and the pits sealed up until the next year. When it is opened nothing remains There are 365 of these, and fresh one is opened every day.
 The Church can have no reasonable obiec- tion to cremation. "Memento homo, quia pulvis es, ct in pulverem reverteris" t" Fire initiates nature, but in more expeditions aud less perilous manner. Fire effects pre- cisely what the earth does. The latter slowly reduces the body into it's various gases, which are disposed in the air, leaving behind only the salts or earth. The former also reduces the body into the various gases, and only the ashes remain. Matter is eternal, and in eth- CT case the body after death enters into a thousand different combinations. Betwern the two processes there is merely question of time. Precious time! The present pro- cess of interment, allowing corpses to decom- pose slowly develops often miasmatic poisons; whereas cremation expeditiously removes all danger of the dead poisoning the living. Why not, then, hasten nature's slow procedure?
 Is it not poetical and beautiful idea to have the ashes of our ancestors arranged in neatly labeled urns in an appropriate place Then may disappear that frightful spot, where lie seething in one common mass of putridity rich and poor, good and bad.
 Piety and reverence for the dead, and re- gard for the living, recommend cremation. ..
 Talmy, n distinguished member of the French marine. in an address to the French academy of medicine, January, 1880, pro- poses the immersion of corpses in the sea for cities coasts, and that cremation be every where adopted for inland cities.
 Permit me to mention another fact bearing on the objections of the church. At the cre- nation congress held at Zurich, well-known Protestant clergyman observed that, consid- cred from a material standpoint, there could be no reasonable objections against the burn ing of the dead. From spiritual standpoint, to those who believe in Supreme Being, the of burial must be indifferent