Show curious burlois Burl the inhabitants of mesopotamia have curious customs in the disposal of their dead the corpse la Is carried to the grave dressed in ordinary clothes with the face uncovered bod lod lea are burled buried in shall shallow craves and after a period due dug op up ow again ino bones being collected into a white linen baff beg and deposited in small buildings on out day ays says an in officer of the it A X d 3 1 I 1 saw such a bag in a church it was la belled with a wom ans ants name in a tillage village near the I 1 bare bays visited one on of these storehouses of the bones of the departed the bags most recently placed in it were white and whole others were whole but stained brown by time those that had been deposited in years past had rotted away |