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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5557, 8 December 1879, Page 3

-- <;;Aji enterprising. . scientist., has just patented ; a process -by ■< .which human corpses are turned into a marble-like substance : warranted to : keep; in • allweathers. In his prospectus, this enemy , qi Jimniy M'Gri"nn's7gentle craft suggests w that'byhis method *e Very h'dusohold can become gradually embellished with, statues

'of its deceased member's, «*" durable as • the stone kind, and ever so vlttete better 'jlikeflfessfe^. There is a wild and dns&my f poetry tibotti this idea alluring to the i imagination, biYfrthfe scheme" (hasrits little : drawbacks notwithstanding. . It might be ithe sad duty— nay, of the 'householder to place his solidified iffother-in-law on a pedestal, in the. front entry — ,l?nt how about the dry goods ? Obviously, 'the niQthci's-in-^aw-rof this locality,,. at | least— wbiikl hardly appear siifficiently ; classical in the pull-back of the period, and yet, on the other hand, what crystallised female autocrat of the :ctdnies'tic"6ircle would seem "exa'etily' propel 1 :cloth-edi in the traditional fig-leaf 1 i The jcdrpulent male ; citizen an'd. .tax-payer,! ipensively inclining on a .lyre ,in.' the, 'admirably ventilated costume of the early; Greeks, would greatly aid in furnishing the library, but, hardly command- .the respect of posterity/ and one's left-over imaidcii "aunt,' perched airily. , on her big too, and chasing a presumed -butterfly through ethereal .space, would probkbly , b<y anatomically inadequate to the^sifud-' tion, even if embellished with l)fep, stre'Jlks. over her hose in imitation^. of /^di! best jt'arrara marble. . .*'