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Show j.OL WORLD FUNERALS. Ob'atIoil of an American Un- - dertaker In Europe. . j Cans Wh,f FaneraU Are In Chr el '""ant Official What It Colli I i 'aibalia. Hotly In Bula -Ulaud'. Hired Mourner. TWre few people who have traveled i throut Kurope wim the special inten-i inten-i tion bservlng the customs prevailing in t country at funerals. W. K. Spehe ' treet undertaker, has made evei''W acrosa the water with thia peacl, and it ia probable that he j trill fi another visit there t.,r the snme pUrpinet year. A Washington Post repor'aw Mr. Hpeare last evening. custom iu conducting j foner" aid he, "are, In my opinion, fr is'"c of those of Europe. They are ifri thorn of the mauy usuless cua-tonu cua-tonu Bre In vogue abroad, and, what ia eapoc? desirable ouiong Americana, ia t h"i of the family ot the dead, who liTR generally have but little to say aVm!'at be done or what the atyle ot eire ' the ceremony shall be. vr ost Intercatiujf of all the European count 'B 'his respect U France. There the&sl'is also the case in Italy, ia tketrK8 of by the government upon the d ' a person until he has been luid awaj jhe ceiuetery. Pans is the great ceuur which these things are most prouii!tly een. When a dat" r0 port " police they at once notify the proper overnment ofticiuls. There is a burets! Paris to which all such matters are refred. Itoccupies the largest building I hat! 'Of seen, and employs a force of clerto?'aterthan are in our rost-Offloe Ueiarurnt Tliureau, havln g taken ehargo of the matr re ' no loss ia iindingat once the aociIKi',0,'t and weulth of the deceased, and aWd'ig to the latter a funeral is ordered or-dered rnee are divided into eleven classt the first coating over 15,000, the otbenraded down until they reach the tenttiMS, for which I1J is charged, the elevat nd last being the pauper's f uueral, and id'vernment expense. 'Tk house occupied by the corpse ia ! drape inside and outside, the friends of 1 the cad having no power to control in any partksitr these proceedinKS.eieept that the embtsiog of the corpse is optional and I cosn- "Tktricnds of the deceased may be rich ; or poJ,nd may desire either to curtail the I expeaeorgtve a more costly burial, but theirnwer is of no avail. tJenerally the ! caskaol France may bo said to be very flims;,:aally being covered with drapery. ! The (start used for the poorest class is aboult strong as a cigar box. The i2 paid for tbiceremony gives the use of a hoarse, whichias a compartment for the casket, behimfhicn there is room for about four persoi to rldo. "Ta undertakers are employed by the Goveitn'nt, and are military officers who usualfank as Major or Captain, the rank, of con, differing for the various grades of fui'iua. They are dressed in black velvetrear cockades and swords and have a goodeal of gold lace on their uniforms. The heral being over, a bill is rendered and pwentsought through a Government offieeff the particular place in which tho death orurred. It must be paid, or the goodiatho deceased are attached. The bureui the source of a very considerable revcoKio the French nation, and it is not permiiiille for any one else to undertake to encaftii the n-ork of burying the dead. "InlUly the govern ment also monopolizes this business, dividing the business provided pro-vided into eleven classes. In the latter country the decorations and every thing used in the ceremony is black. The custom lsJrdinItalj.only in the cases of chit ' -''Smjito bourses are T" -J "n"''itT coin while, carrying candles can-dles and fengiug as they pass along the streets. fTwrs are some very eieeaut funerals ai Rome, but those styled first-class cost iiijoutSVlDor more. "The rouitry of hired mourners is En-i En-i gland. Then the heaviest drapery pre-vails, pre-vails, whiletisfuneral cars,' as they are called, in wbich the caskets are carried, are immense vehicles, exceeding in size our omnibuses. Many of them cost fully 4,000. The mourners that are hired follow the hears, and ire very noisy in their pretended pre-tended grief. The hearse and the four horses dramog It are black. A lantern is carried on each corner of the 'funeral car.' "Many of the caskets of Russia are the iluosttUatr made. They are of metal, and one 1 saw at St. Petersburg cost 3,500. The hearse ot Russia is even larger than that of England, the floor on which the casket cas-ket rests Ming about seven feet from the ground. Tbere also the heaviest drapery prevails. Ia England, Germany and Russia the fnneraiof the dead is carried on by pri-vatehulividiuils, pri-vatehulividiuils, with the exception that in Rustia the work of the embalmer is in the hand of the government. There, as gen eraljf throughout Europe, it costs $500 to ernblm a body, the process being, as Is supesed, that of the Egyptians and is held . Beret" |