House and Garden 
A Concrete Residence at Buena Park , III. 
Jenney, Munde & Jensen, Architects 
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among the living whatever miasm may 
rise from the sepulchres of the dead. A 
large school-house, situated near one of 
the cemeteries, was recently closed, on 
account of the repeated outbreaks of 
diphtheria among the pupils, and some 
of the physicians of the city attribute 
these as well as the other troubles from 
zymotic diseases, to the air from the 
graveyards. We do not remember hav¬ 
ing heard diphtheria before attributed 
to cemetery exhalations, but it is quite 
possible that it might be caused by them, 
and the people of the city are quite justi¬ 
fied in urging, as they are now doing, the 
prohibition of further interments within 
the city limits, and even the removal of 
the bodies from the cemeteries already 
existing. Although the latter would be 
a rather serious undertaking, it is not 
likely that diphtheria will diminish 
much untd it is accomplished. Few peo¬ 
ple have any idea of the time during 
which noxious and corrupting substances 
buried in the ground beyond the reach 
of the nitrifying microbe, will continue 
to saturate the earth, and the surround¬ 
ing atmosphere, with foul vapors. It is 
commonly assumed that within a few 
months, or a few years, at the utmost, 
the products of decomposition are ab¬ 
sorbed by the soil, and converted into 
harmless inorganic substances; but Pro¬ 
fessor Lanciani tells us that under his 
direction, trenches were dug in the gar¬ 
dens of Maecenas, which were made 
about the year 40 b. c. by filling-in 
twenty-five feet of clean soil over an old 
cemetery on the Esquiline hill in Rome. 
The cemetery had long been a nuisance 
and danger to that part of the city, and 
Maecenas earned the gratitude of his 
contemporaries by buying it, and cover¬ 
ing it up. Nevertheless, after two thous¬ 
and years of disuse, and exposure to such 
purification as a good covering of clean 
soil could effect in it, Lanciani found it 
necessary, when his men had reached the 
bottom of the earth-filling, and exposed 
the ancient surface, to relieve them at 
short intervals, in order that they might 
escape suffocation from the stench which 
proceeded from the remains of the people 
whose bodies were laid there long before 
the Christian era.— Exchange. 
I hough the scarlet Clematis coccinea 
is but of herbaceous nature, it is a neat, 
pretty vine, and when rambling over 
brush, as sweet peas are often permitted 
to do, it forms a most attractive object. 
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