Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1903 — A Silent Bell. [ARTICLE]

A Silent Bell.

Mere Urea • century ago the fear •f beiHf burred Hive led to the establunnreet in German cities of morttuuy chambers in which a bell rope is placed in the hands of each corpse. In his recent Volume m “Death and Sudden Death” Professor Brouardel declares that there is no case on record of that bell having ever been rung anywhere.