Year: 1877

Death hath left on her only the beautiful"


By the way, if you have any babies to
cremate in your section, just box 'em up,
pay the express charges, and send 'em
along, and if it is any kind of decent
sized baby, we can send it back by mail in
respectable envelope for just about double
postage. We've tried it and know how it
is ourselves. julius Kircher had baby,
and the little baby died. Kircher was
Christian, Mrs. kircher was a Jewess.-
Kircher didn't want the little baby buried
with the Jews, Mrs. Kircher tainted at the
idea of having it inferred with Christians.
There seemed to be no abiding place for
baby till the luminous idea burst upon kir-
cher" let us cremate her." kircher had
an oven in his paint factory, down town,
which was just the thing: it did not mat
ter after baby was done, if the ashes had
a slight flavor of black varnsh or Paris
green. Be this as it may, baby was put in
an iron box, and in less than three quarters
of an hour by the clock, the remains were
done to turn. Peace is restored to the
Kircher household, each can now take his
or her share of the ashes and dispose of
them as they see fit. The Board of Health
undertook to raise row, but on searching
the statue book there was found to be no
law to prevent a man from roasting himself
or anybody else, SO long the individual
most intimately concerned approved of the
operation. AS a matter Of fact, DR.. Tai
mage, of Brooklyn insists that cremation
is the ultimate condition of the majority
of the human race; if so, the sooner we
get used to it the better. So, bring on
your crematorS, for when we say, " ashes
to ashes," now we want you people in the
country to understand that we mean bust
ness.


The marriage of Miss Vanderbilt. the
daughter of William H. Vanderbilt, is the
latest connubial sensation Of the week. |
am afraid to tell you the number of her
dresses, or even to hint at the quality.
Like Miss Flora McFlimsey, of Madison
Square, she


g Has dresses to sit in and stand in and walk III,


Dresses To frt in and dance in and t,lk in,


Dresses in which tn d" nothing at all


Dresses for winter spring, summer aud fall
Madame Connolly, a modiste, who is to
New York what Worth is to Paris, is the
lucky architect of this magnificent trous-
seau, and | am informed by one who has
had peep in her palace Of wonders that
a single lace fiounce on the bridal dress cost
$1,000. Nothing like it has been seen in
New York since Tweed youngest daughter
was married, she wore diamond buttons on
her CATERS; Miss V. did not put her feet in
it by doing SO foolish thing, though her
necklace alone cost fifty thousand dollars,
and her bridal gift from her father was
million.


Our fall weather has been magnificent,
there only being chill enough in the last
few days in the air to remind us that we're
rapidly approaching December Business
continues active, though our emigration is
falling off sadly-three ocean steamers
which arrived on Tuesday only brought
little over three hundred passengers, or
about one half a load for a single steamer
the falling off will not be far from 90, 600
in the year; if this thing keeps on we must
begin the importation of Cinnamon, or our
crop of Alderman may run short then,
instead of the Terrence Donovan Associa-
tion and the Dennis Cennessy Rangers, we
may see Yap Woong running for Alderman
Of the Sixth Ward, and the Wing Lee Cot
erie stutfing the ballot boxes to secure the
election of their favorite, ''We know
what we are, but we know not what we
may ."-ShakSphere.


lam, truly yours,


BRoADBRIM.