The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-05
AN ECONOMICAL ROAST.
1t Cost too Much 10 Ship Her Body
so He had it Cremated.

James Z. Dubois, who vas for sew
eral years consul at Aix-la-C hapelles,
gave some interesting "reminiscences
of his stay abroad to the members OF
the Thirty-three Limited Club at the
Biggs House last night. Mr., Dubois,
who is a most entertaining talker,
told many stories OF his experience
which are worthy of relation to a
larger audience than the members OF
the club who were his delighted
audience last night. One of his in
cidents may be briefly told.
One day he was approached in his
office by a man who carried a small
box under his arm.
II want an invoice to New York Tor
this box said the man.
A blank form was produced and
Consul Dubois asked few questions.
One of them related to the age of the
contents of the box.
"Twenty-six years DID, said the
man.
What is their hature?"
my sister, was the reply.
Then he told his story. His sister
lldQ AlCd u lC OdJS OOlOlO. 0AN "AtN
he went to have the remains shipped
to New York he found that it would
cost $3.50 to embalm and enclose them
in a casket, and $3.50 more to ship
them across the ocean. AS he did not
want to pay $500 he had gone to a
.crematory, had the remains inciner-
ated for $25 and proposed to ship
them for $15, saving $500 blythe oper-
alton.
After the explanation he was given
the invoice, paid the usual fee and de-
parted with the little square box
containing his sisters ashes under his
arm.
But this was not the sequel to the
affair. The box was imported into
this country free of duty. When this
fact became known, in connection
with the way the undertakers had
been outwitted, a formal protest was
sent to the Treasury Department by
some undertakers abroad against
the Importation of human ashes free
of duty, on the ground that Ameri-
cans dying abroad would be cremated
and sent home, thus depriving en-
balmers, manufacturers OF collins and
others interested in caring for the
dead of a source of revenue from their
legitimate business. This appeal was
never acted upon.-W Washington Post.
Miss Original.
People like individuality in a room,
and an unending vista of white and
blue rooms shrouding lily white girls
grows monotonous. 1t is the proper
thing; but / know | was glad when /
anne across a girl who had the nerve
to depart from it. Her lame / dare
not tell, for her courage does not go
that far. She said that she got so
tired of tame people and tame amuse-
ments that she was bound to have
something startling about her. She
got her fathers consent to have the
garnet of his big mansion, and she
fitted it up in a way that would make
a tiger shiver. 1t is an uneven room,
dark even at MONDAY, for the window
panes are hardly. bigger than the
palm of the hand. The floor is Gov
cred with leopard skins, from
which the round, beady eyes
stare in an uncomfortably
fierce way. A big gray owl
perches in a dark corner, and below
it is a dusky black couch with drap-
cry above it that looks for all the
world like a g%lowering big bat. The
doors into the alcoyes are hung with
the skins of the Rocky mountain
lion and from the sides of the room
above the touches are meshes of
coiled snakes, from the mouths of
which dart lights in a fashion entire
ly too realistic for comfort.
Instead of a stately samovar there
is a regular witch's cauldron in one
corner in which the mistress of the
room concocts harmless tea for those
of her friends who are bold enough to
visit her there. By every chair are
low tables covered with books, and
the very titles of them would make a
proper miss swoon away.-MdsS
Grumpy, Jr-
A Few Signs of Good Breeding.
A well-bred woman always thanks
the man who gives her a seat in the
street car, and does it in a quiet and
not in an ELUSIVE way.