Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — Body-Burning in England. [ARTICLE]

Body-Burning in England.

The High Court of Justice in England has decided that cremation is not illegal, because there has been no legislation against it, but a bill recently introduced in Parliament for the purpose of legalizing it under certain restrictions, has failed to be approved. In the court case referred to, the Judge decided that, if the cremation were done in a manner or place to make it offensive to any considerable number of the act would be indictable under the common law against nuisances.—Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Such as have studied the fish supply of Western Maryland have become alarmed at the results which have been produced by the introduction of bass into the Potomac and the neighboring streams. The bass are vqry voracious in their habits, and attack all kinds of aquatic life for food. They have either devoured or driven away most of the fall fish, the suntish, the catfish, and other native fish, and they have greatly diminished the number of eels, and have even destroyed many of the turtles and water snakes. If this wholesale destruction continues it will not be long before the bass will be the only fish in those waters, and then the question as to their future food will be difficult to decide. They have increased very rapidly, and are now found in large quantities in alt the stream which enter the Potomac.* »

Macaroni is made by Italians in New York, Neufchatel cheese by Swiss in New Jersey, Schweizer kase by Germans in Ohio, Albert biscuit by Englishmen in Albany, and caviare by Russians in Harlem. Nearly all of these are exported to Europe, and there sold as domestic manufactures.