Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10

emily marble, but really mosaic formed of
fragments OF human members, visceri, etc.,
nothing extraordinary to behold until you
know it is SO 'fearfully and wonderfully
made" 1t occurred to me that this would
be capital piece of furniture for the King
Of the Cannibal Islands or spirit medium.
AS looked about the room in which is
Kept the Segato collection, SO fragmentary
and incomplete, thought how If he had
had his will there would have been ranged
against the wall goodly company of de-
| funct Florentines, silent and rigid as SO
many English footmen in ducal hall, q
more fearsome assembly than the homicidal
wax figures in the Toussaud "Chamber Of
Horrors
Could the Segato method be fully made
known, hardly think it would be extern
slvely utilized, except to take the place of
embalming, for buried potentates and presi-
dents. The process would check any grave
robber not provided with derrick. fancy
that none but the very handsome and vain
would really care for such eternal immuta-
bllity, ard in statuquosity, every man his
own monument.
Perhaps some politicians might be per-
suaded to become at least permanent petri-
factions of their already hardened selves to
adorn legislative halls. Politicians can be
persuaded into almost anything, and they
love permanency. Ex-Presidental candi-
dates, ranged against the walls of the Senate
chamber, could still serve their ungratetul
country as "frightful examples.
In spacious old italian palaces the Segato
preparations might, after century or two,
have gallery to themselves. when each
grand signor, dressed in his habit as he
lived" and each slgnora, in her best Genoa
velvet or favorite tea-gown, might mingle
with or rather be mingled with the other
ladies and gentlemen on festive family oc-
casions. In making out schedules of prince
ly personal property. ancestors might be
estimated by the toni
THE LUXURY OF ANCESTORS.
In our country an ambitious millionaire
might occasionally indulge in the luxury Of
few petrifed progenitors, and relations
might even prefer mother-in-law in that
that state, but a careful housewife would
scarcely care to have such cumbrous, ''stone-
cold" images of life and death standing
round in her best rooms to hit against in
the dark, especially if they should be mostly
husbands folks" But should there be
among them a member of Congress, rail-
way magnate, gallant train-robber, or the
author of naughty novel, she might stand
it, in case she lived in a country mansion
and had a big garret to Danish the least
famous to when the collection should need
thinning out. We can imagine such
housekeeper saying to her daughter, on the
morning of a far future Thanks
giving, when the large. usually closed
front room" is to be thrown open. "Anne
Belinda, have you busted your great-grand-
father? Have you set the Generals wig
straight? Have you put clean, new
speech into the hand of the Hon. B. Har-
rison Jones? That's right, and do hope
your father won't notice that haven't furn-
ished his mother with new black silk
gown he gave me the money for. 1 needed
one myself
In large city houses select few of the de-
parted, who did not all depart, might be
accommodated, but in fat such RETROSPECT
tive hospitality were quite out of the ques-
ton. Scarce room would there be therein
for the funeral urn. sent home from the
crematory with an advertising tag and the
bill attached. I really fear that if there
were several of those classic receptacles of
attenuated remains received, an urn or two
would finally have to be relegared to the
shelf of the bathroom.
GRACE GREENWOOD.