The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-11
SILVERPLATED ANCESTORS.
A CHEMIST WILL PRESERVE You
IN GOLD OR SILVER.

Process for Keeping a Body For
ever-Stntesmen Preserved for
Public Parks, and Bellies in the
Nude for FOuntains-GOId and
Brass Plate for MilIiOnaires and
RuIers-AfTectiOn Tested by the
Thickness of the Plate, and Poor
Relatives Done in Nickel.
Copyright, 1885,
New York, Oct. 1O.-Some time ago there
was considerable stir made, both among
the medical profession and the public in
general, by DR.. Variot, prominent French
physician. He claimed that it was a COM
paratively easy matter to metallize of
plate any substance, from a flower to a
human being. For some reason or other,
however. the doctor did not produce any
startling proofs of his claim, and in the
absence of such the matter was soon for
gotten.
Somebody has evidently profited by the
suggestion and thought it too interesting
subject to lose sight of. About two
months ago there appeared on the boule-
wards of Paris several small hand-carts
on which were frames bearing the rather
startling sign:
GREATEST DISCOVERY OF THE
AGE!
No more burials.
DROP DEAD AND BE PLATED.
Babies and sweethearts finished in gold
and silver. according to taste.
Your uncle, husband, mother-in-law, or
poor relative plated and polished in
brass, copper, nickel and aluminium.
Prices moderate
Work warranted.
Cats and dogs and other favorites plated
very nicely and cheaply.
Rue. Gredin.
A. p. Coquin.
Investigation proved M Coquin to be
a very genial and fat little Frenchman.
When asked IL he could plate and polish
a 5-year-old baby in a really first-class
style, he said, with a sly twinkle in his
eye: "If you get the baby l will do the
rest"
NJ. coquln has achieved some really
startling results. His metallized bodies.
one tragic head In particular, with grand
forehead, large open eyes and finely formed
lips, equals the most effective work In
artistic bronze, while a newborn babe
seems to sleep like an angel in glowing
metal of rarest gold.
There 10 nothing CHASTITY about this me-
tailc body preserving. The dead in their
works of art and so exact is their resem-
blance that photographs IN relief bring
out the slightest details as 10 muscular
projections and all the curves of real and
tortsical beauty The very luster OF the
nails and the softness of the skin even
seem to be perfectly preserved. These
metallic bodies are exact copies OF the
modern realistic school OF sculpture, so
great is their perfection, and might serve
when preserved. as ornaments about the
house and lawns OF country places.
The body TO be metallized is immersed
In chemical BATH consisting OF soluble
salts OF copper, nickel. silver or even gold.
when one can afford IT, and the cleo
trio current passed through. Under the
influence OF electrolysls the salts are de-
composed and the metal Is deposited. layer
upon layer on the surface OF the dead
body until sufficient thickness covers the
contours. All the outlines OF the body are
mus brought out, and the remains arr
covered from head TO foot In a rigid me-.
tallic envelope. Coquin, In his investl,gn
uons ana experiments, has had the assist
anee Of such sayant and mechanical ex.