Among all the outrages on the dead, that committed by the hand of ghoulish desecration is, by far, the worst. Body-snatching, for providing anatomical institutions with material, has become a business in the United States; love of gain being, as usual, the cause. And not only are bodies abducted to supply medical colleges, but persons are liable to be murdered for the same reason. In February of 1884 two negroes were arrested at Cincinnati, who, after a severe examination, confessed to having killed an old man, his wife, and his adopted daughter; after which they sold the corpses to the Ohio Medical College, receiving $15 for each. But some grave-robberies are perpetrated simply for revenge, or else for pure deviltry. A special despatch to the _Detroit Free Press_, from Point Pleasant, W. Va., relates an instance of this kind as follows:— “Salt Creek, a small stream, empties into the Ohio River three miles south of this. Two miles from the mouth is a church called Pisgah, attached to which is a burying-ground. This morning when the sexton went to dig a grave, he was horrified to find half a dozen graves open and the bodies taken from their coffins and stretched on the ground. In one or two instances the limbs were severed from the bodies. The graves had been opened without regard to family. The bodies lay in one place arranged in the shape of a Greek cross. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the sacrilegious offense, and no reason can be imagined. The bodies evidently had been exposed for a day or two.” The funeral car of the late A. T. Stewart was followed by six carriages laden with gorgeous floral offerings; yet in spite of the more than regal magnificence of his funeral, and of his great wealth, only a few days later his body was stolen by sacrilegious robbers, and has never been recovered. Need I remind you of the mortification our nation felt on hearing that guards had to be set to watch over the graves of our lamented presidents, Lincoln and Garfield. Not only in our country is body-snatching a frequent offense, but also in England, as will be seen by the sequent quotation from Mr. Walker (p. 202):— “An undertaker who had charge of a funeral went with a friend into the vault of a chapel. A coffin recently deposited was taken under his arm with the greatest ease. His friend, doubting, poised the coffin, and was affected to tears from the conviction that the body had been removed. Several other coffins were in the same condition.” The corpse of the late Earl of Crawford was stolen from the Dun Echt mortuary chapel in Aberdeen. There is one case of outrage on the dead on record that, for hideousness and devilishness, surpasses all others. I refer to that grave-digger of Koenigsberg, Prussia, who fed his swine with human bodies.