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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 44, 20 February 1874, Page 2

A Carlinville, 111., girl, who recovered 10 dollars from a young fellow for Kissing her against her will, offered him the money back again a few days afterwards if he would " do it again." An ingenious apparatus has just been prefected by Professor Brunetti, of Florence, for the clean, rapid, and complete burning of dead bodies. The apparatus is a brick furnace in the shape of a parallelogram, with ten side openings for regulating the draught. The top is covered with a movable roof provided with iron shutters. The body to be incinerated is laid on a metallic shelf of moderate thickness hung up by chains, horizontally, in the inside of the furnace. A pile of wood beneath tbe shelf being ignited, the operation commences. A quantity of gas is soon evolved, and let off through the opening of the shutters. After the escape of the gases, the body catches fire spontaneously, and is completely reduced to a cinder in the course of two hours. When the furnace has cooled, the ashes on the shelf are collected and put into a funereal urn. Id one case, a body weighing 104 lbs. was reduced to a weight of 3§ lbs. The revival of this ancient mode of disposing of the dead will, it is thought, be found to be necessitated by tho pollution of the springs inevitably resulting from ;the practice of burying theui in the ground.