Show an extraordinary method of a nevada state law from iolj hill let h the law palsied by the state legislature forbidding under heavy penalties the of human bodies buried in this stale without firca obtaining permission from the county commissioners was suggested by and aimed at the well known cus torn of the chinese of digging up the bones of their countrymen and shipping them home to china this custom has prevailed not only from religious duty but through the contracted obligations of the companies to which they belong or by whom they are brought to this country to return them to china alivo or dead returning the bones suitably boxed and certified to fulfills the contract for every celestial not so returned or otherwise accounted for the company has to forfeit three times the amount of the contract money to the relatives of the deceased or to the government at leorne for ahli it is that at a suitable time a few months after burial the graves were reopened and the bones taken out for shipments tj the new law would apparently discourage and prevent in great measure ho emigration of chinese to america but john is too cunning to bo out on any such arrangement a that sinca m law went into effect not one alii hoe corpse haa been burled with any in it skillful practitioners employed by tho companies remove all the dones from the body na soon as convenient after death the corpse is laid epou alio operating able ace downward some aromatic jonii da per is burned in a censor suspended from the ceiling oliree teacupful of sanctified rice water are sprinkled over the body and around the room and a priest repeats the sacred chine erb Koong hoe which peace and good will to usall tine is the religious formula forthe occasion the two skillful surgical operators now step forward to their work with keen glittering knives an incision is made from the top of tho head docu the spinal column branching leg to the heel and along the back of each arm the aleh Is then carefully and speedily peeled ana trimmed away each aide from the skull shoulders hip arms and legs and in lew time than it takes to describe it the flesh less skeleton is drawn forth leaving the boneless corpse lying there then tho clothes which deceased wore during life often comprising all of his worldly possessions are carefully in to supply the place ol 01 the removed bones and the body being neatly sewed up and washed it is wrapped in a plain shroud and delivered to the friends for burial the skeleton is now and the bones are subsequently baked in an oyen and packed for shipment |