MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1512, 20 February 1885, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The foundation «f a new crematory has been Uid in the snburt'B of New York, and it was to be finished by February 1. The marble nsed in its erection is the old front of the St. Nicholas Hotel and was purchased at auction very cheap when the .old lantft mark of New York was palled downA The society has 500 members pledged solemnly to the di*po-al of the dead bodies by cremation. Above the furnace there will be a handsome chapel, and after th« religions service the body will be lowered by means of an elevator to the level of the fire, removed from the case in which it reposes during the obsequies, wrapped in a linen sheet satura ed with alum, and reduced in the space of 40 minutes to the compass of 61b or 71b of fin« grey ashes. If desired, these ashes can be stored with the crematory authorities, or can be taken home as a relic. The best scientific appliances will be employed for the detection of apparant as distinI guiahed from real death, and the com- | pany expects to get a considerable income as fees for certificates of real death from person;* who wish to be buried in the old-fashioned Way. An Auckland paper says, that Dr WilkinH ha* jnsfc succeeded m preventing a girl named Amelia Button, aged 12, daughter of the well-known barrister, (MrC. E. Button) from losing her sight. For over two year this poor child suffered from bad eyes, and was seen by two or three doctors, but received very little benefit Her parents heating of Dr Witkens took her to him, and that gentleman saw at once she was fast Josing her sight. He at onceperforme.d an operation which ended in her flight been perfectly restored. A month latter Dr Wilkins performed a second operation on her for a cast in one eye from infancy which has proved equally successful. The Tichborne Claimant continues to stump the country by way not only of ventilating his grievances, bnt also paving the way for a seat in Parliament. According to the " Law Journal," there is no law to prevent '• Sir Roger " from sitting in Parliament, because only felons are excluded, and perjury is not felony. On« little circumstance, must not be overlooked. Chatham may return him with an overwhelming majority, the Habeas Corpus and the British Constitution may be unable to bar hi? passage across the passage of the House of Commons, Conservatives may fret and Lilwrals fame in vain — all the Queen's horses and all the Queen's men may be powerless ; but, as the " Globe " remarks — " Sir V. Harcourt, with a stroke of his pen can send Humpty Dumpty to prison again !'* At a meeting of the South Stoueham Board of Guardians held recently it was stated that the Claimant's wife and her two illegitimate children will shortly be removed from the workhouse, arrangements having l»een made, for their care. The Board decided that it would be useless to proceed against the Claimant for the cost of past maintenance. The Claimant's wife is registered as Mary Ann Tichborne, alias Castro. " Rjuoh on rats". — Clears out rats mice, roaches, flies, ants, bed-bugs beetles, insects, skunks, jack-rabbits gophers. Druggists. Kempthorne Prosser & Co., Agents Christchnrch. ONE BOX OF CLARKE'S B 41 PILLS is warranted to cure all discharges from the Urinary Organs, in either box (acquired or constitutional), Gravel, and Pain* in the Back. Guaranteed free hum Mercury. S«M in Boxes, 4a. 6d each, by all Chemist* and Patent Medicine Vendor* : Sole Proprietors, The Lincoln and MinLAXD ConNTiES Drug Co., Lincoln, England. Wholesale of all the Wholesale Houseß.