Show CREMATION IN PARIS the of incinerations Is growing steadily from year to year the advocates in this country of cremating dead bodies will be somewhat encouraged by the reports thai come from paris of the number of eions that took place there during the first four months of 1695 says the new york world the number of incinerations that occur either in accordance with a previous request of the person whose body is disposed of or at the instance of alie representatives increases every year with great regularity though not rapidly according to the statistics published by the pie fact of police the number of cremations that took place at the pere la ahnise cemetery from august 1889 to the end of april 1895 were as follows 49 1891 1892 and 1895 four months 75 the furnace would consequently often be idle were it not for the remains from the hospitals which amount iu from 2000 to 2500 bodies per annum the apparatus employed is that of MM and fradet and works by means cf gas with a incinerations cine rations arc accomplished in an hour or at most an hour and a quarter and the cost of the combustible never exceeds three francs per operation another apparatus invented by M bichet has recently been inaugurated the difference between the two inventions lies chiefly in the application of oxide of carbon in the contrivance devised by M fichot the body is consumed by hot air alone and docs not come into contact with gases ing to this method incineration place n little more rapidly than in the furnace but the expense is greater by nearly a quarter as much |