Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1878 — Mrs. Titian’s Dust. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Titian’s Dust.

The calcined rimains of Mrs. Benn Pitootm, whetfthcywere taken from the reijprt of the furnace of Dr. Le Moyne’s crematory, weighed a fraction over four pound.". two ounces. Their appearance grffCrtilly, as defined by a correspondent present, was that of a clear white bone ash, as of a thoroughly burned bone pulverized by. a heavy weight, intermingled with flakes resembling fish scales, of an extremely iiglit pearl color. Mixfewith the bfeeaslrwere the hardly distinguishable qpe^ahc^shreds of the casWfere 'fspchthe body was wtefejpfed, and of -tire hlunj- soaked sheet wi-& yererered, distinguishable by the difference of texture, and what were also believed to be the petals of*the flowers placed upon Mrs. Pitman’s beectaf; but’. alt these were reduced to an'-iinpalpable dust* in "handling the reon the bottom of the distributed in almost exact proportion to the quantity of bones that go pctke up the human skeleton.