ADIPOCERE.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 65, 7 September 1877, Page 2

ADIPOCERE.

Adipocere is rapidly becoming a jiost useful substance, and there is no knowing , where advantages derired from it may \ end. A iN'ew Zealand farmer recently \ lost several fat sheep by drowning. The I bodies* lay for over a year at the bottom, I of a runninc^tream, and on- being taken up were c ound to be converted into a | white, solid, and non-putrescible sub* \ stance very like was, and about the same- i weight as the day they foil into the water. 1 This substance, he thought, must bo- I adipocere. aud he was delighted, to fijids 1 ';

thafcitignikd. readily and gave, as good a. light as a candlo. Since that ttfiao doath , ;h i a|;b.ee»J)u.^jqni hisir^^j.-and he lost two horses, his mother'in-law^ ahd several !.ca,lYe.3rj /Bul.thoiie, w.asi.tlo/grivoj-diggint; or tnonumontal inscriptions. They all ■;i went .into. tho drects;',!arid)SerTTed to illuniinaln hi» lonely cabin during 'tlife follow,:<4tiu «.vvinter.- ■- Th6 > »('eQsbh t A'i ! s "'a' jjeaiitiful ono and most applicable to. out 1 virgin - state. When "the- relontlpss sickle of tho destroying angel visits our country homes iifitha future and carries off lorrio of tlie live stock, human or otherwise, taut them in the creok— if they're faf. ' You onn go aud look at the old, man or old womnn erery diiy for a twelvemonth, and finally convert thorn into tbo finest)' kind of candies. ( -Only don't adipocerify ■ them if they're lean. It is- a monotonous process, and they never burn well, bntlaro constan'ly spluitpriWc and going out. — San Krancisco News' L^'ttoi'. ■•■•'''

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