Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1887 — Evening Funeral Services. [ARTICLE]

Evening Funeral Services.

Evening funeral services are becoming very fre iuent. It is urged in favor of the growing custom that it affords gentlemen opportunity for attendance that they can hardly take during business hours. Besides this great convenience distressing scenes of parting with the dead loved ones are kept from the gaze of the curious and unsympathetic. Upon the score of economy, too, it is to be commended. The remains are kept over night and the next morning are unostentatiously removed to the place of burial, followed by only a few carriages with the nearest relatives and family intimates.— New York Times. Pompeii and Herculaneum were overwhelmed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A. D. 79. r , .