Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — Cr[?]mation Popular Among the Japs. [ARTICLE]

Cr[?]mation Popular Among the Japs.

Cremation flourishes in Japan. Tokio has six crematories, in which the bodies of at least one-third of the dead are burned. In 1884 11,023 of the 34.437 persons who died were cremated, aud since burial in the city was forbidden the number has been increased. According to the style of cremation the piice is $3.75, $2, or sl. Sixty-six pounds of wood, which costs approxi mately 25 cents, suffices for the burning of a body in three hours. A man who gets the mitten is apt t» be guilty of contempt of court.