Cremation Sentiments.
Motto for cremationista— be mortuvt nil nisi ourn'em. A.D. 1900.—i Scene v beTore a cremation undertaker's ehop:-:SmaH boy: "I sayV sir, is dad done yet'? If he is, please pnt his ashes in this'ere tin'kettle." A cremationist asks wprdd it be nnpleasant to receive a despatch Bomething like this some day ?—" Dear Mother^Wfliianj* died to-day. Ashes by mail.-7-Youre i'nsorrow, —John Smith. V This world ie all a fleeting show:; How sweet from it'to pasa) To vanish, up the chimney asr ; Carbonic acid gas. , Don't lay mc on theriyer.'bariki- ; Amid the fragrant flowers, 1 Nor where the grass is watered by The early sunimer>hbwera;Bnt pot mc in the kitchen range, And open wide the dainpeiv And then inyy&pordue remains ■■'■/■ ; Can up the chimney-scamper.
The Home ;M abahy at night. • ; '■■'■■'.■:'-.: '*,■'..;.-;. , :>j &\ r \ i?s All the•;. Difference—A awayia a scamp, htit the policeman's cbiarlt ' after him is ■'■?■■ ■.-.. •-"'.-£ i^f'P/-^^^ women on the whiskey saloons has been the v| occasion of a greatmany jokes. One papef says. #It : is said of the ders ' ; r_d^liW:^e^_|tfcel_^ weread, u AGennan__oohikee_i^n.__i|ll |M^o^gplo|^|^_rp^^^^^^H
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 7, 20 August 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)
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175Cremation Sentiments. Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 7, 20 August 1874, Page 1 (Supplement)
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