CURIOUS CEREMONY.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11554, 15 February 1906, Page 4

CURIOUS CEREMONY.

isbu .sym.n_.ii-._i.j-; trje "death bf the nil lamr.*'"- It wn. hoadwi by the staff of the gasworks, followed by bearers of banners with inscriptions and wouud with crape. Tnen came a band playing the Dead March, and finally ai^bier carried by old lamplighters.^ Tho procession made a ; round through the town, and on its way collected all the old oil-fed street lamps which webe ft*dorned with crape bowa. fcttft reverently placed on thb bier "for burial.'"' After tho t&remony, the funeralbaked meats were Darfaken df, j duly washed down, with ity waft, ahd* the burgesses of UnrtihStadt, proud of their prGg(.ed_._veness, gave themselves up to boisterous rejoicing.

UTAt Unruhstadt, a little market town in Eastern Prussia, a curious ceremony wae enacted the other day to celebrate the opening of the new gasworks, AJ"proce_wion wai organ?.