. A writer in the ' Australasian' says: —" I wonder who is responsible for the Australasian custom of semi-public funerals. The most obscure person in the community must be followed to his last home by a horde of persons who would not have walked a mile to save his life, but now risk theirs in order to do his memory honor. I say risk their lives, because I believe that during winter season at least two persons catch severe colds at every funeral. There is something absurd about the whole arrangement. We decry the living man, and glorify the dead one."
Under the liquor law of Ohio, a jury has given a wife a verdict of 7000dols 'against a liquor dealer " for the loss of her husband's society for three years." Young men now-a-days have a shocking regard for the Scriptures. Solomon said "Go to the ant, thou sluggard ;" and yet the majority of our sluggards irrev«rently persist'™ goings to their unclos !
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 20 September 1872, Page 5
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160Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 185, 20 September 1872, Page 5
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