For the certificate of the publication of the bans, and the permission given to the future husband to go and be married in the parish of his future wife....... 5 0 For the wedding mass..................... 1 10 For the vicar............................ 1 10 For the clerk of the sacrament........... 1 10 For blessing the bed..................... 1 10 _Funeral Processions._ Of children under seven years old, when the clergy do not go in a body: For the curate........................... 1 10 For each priest.......................... 1 10 When the clergy go in a body: For the curial fee....................... 4 0 For the presence of the curate........... 2 0 For each priest.......................... 0 10 For the vicar............................ 1 10 For each singing-boy, when they carry the body............................... 8 0 And when they do not carry it............ 5 0 And so of young persons from seven to twelve years old. Of persons above twelve years old: For the curial fee....................... 6 0 For the curate's attendance.............. 4 0 For each vicar........................... 2 0 For the priest........................... 1 0 For each singing-boy..................... 0 10 Each of the priests that watch the body in the night, for drink, etc........... 3 0 And in the day, each..................... 2 0 For the celebration of the mass.......... 1 0 For the service extraordinary; called the complete service; viz., the vigils and the two masses of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Virgin........................ 4 10 For each of the priests that carry the body................................... 1 0 For carrying the great cross............. 0 10 For the holy water-pot carrier........... 0 5 For carrying the little cross............ 0 5 For the clerk of the processions......... 0 1 For conveying bodies from one church to another there shall be paid, for each of the above fees, one-half more. For the reception of bodies thus conveyed: To the curate............................ 6 10 To the vicar............................. 1 10 To each priest........................... 0 15 TEARS. Tears are the silent language of grief. But why? What relation is there between a melancholy idea and this limpid and briny liquid filtered through a little gland into the external corner of the eye which moistens the conjunctiva and little lachrymal points, whence it descends into the nose and mouth by the reservoir called the lachrymal duct, and by its conduits? Why in women and children, whose organs are of a delicate texture, are tears more easily excited by grief than in men, whose formation is firmer?