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New Zealand Tablet, Volume V, Issue 261, 3 May 1878, Page 13

THE scene in Warsaw at- the departure of the Russo-Polish soldiers for the seat of war is described as heart-rending. What made the occasion particularly distressing was the fact that by the rules of the Russian service the Poles are not allowed to take chaplains of their owa faith along with them to tho battle-field. During the few days preparatory to the departure, tho. churches were continually thronged wih soldiers, and their mourning relatives and friends, the poor fellows being all anxious to receive the Sacraments for what they knew would certainly be for many of them the last time in their lives. Chicago people have been greatly disturbed by discovering that a family named Shinn have recently taken up the iudustiy of boiling down human bodies and mounting bones for medical cabinets, v They have set up a large soap-kettle in their hack yard, and every morning the air of the neighbourhood is loaded with the nauseating odors/from this " hell broth." The worst of it is there is no secrecy about this horrid process, and any one who takes the trouble to watch the premises for a few hours -will have his eyes regaled by the sight of human heads, limbs, and other fragments of mortality tossed into the caldron and stirred by the grinning fiend who presides over the infernal decoction. The delightful establishment is supposed to be supplementary to the medical college, but the neighbours, whose sensibilities nave not been, blunted, by an ifttj,m,a.cy "With science, are in ft state <rf great ia&gwtiffiit