The morning news., 1894-11-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST,


Work of laying the international gas
river about to begin, says the Detroit
Tribune. At the foot Of Orleans street
ditch twenty feet deep has been dug
at the water 5 edge, sloptng back 10 the
surface at Franklin street At The bot
tom OF this ditch is a great plank trough.
and in It is 600 feet Of the interna tional
gas main At the river end Of this pipe
line there is bolted To the pipe a conicaI
head, somewhat larger than the pipe.
At the end OF this conical head is a big
IRON ring Near by IS a one-inGA steel
cable. The cable is to be attached to the
iron ring upon the conical head and car
REQ across the river to the. Canadian
shore. There three Q. and G. and T rail-
ROAD locomotives viii be attached to the
other end Of the cable and the three iron
horses Wall drag into the water from
the American shore the International gas
nam As fast as the pipe is drawn into
Iae river new joints viii be clamped on
WIN great clamps Weighing l.0g pounds
ea"h. until the main is completed across
the river. 1t is expected that the Conical
mead of the pine will dig into the bottom
pletely burying the iron tube beneath the
bottom Of the river in the muck and
slime. It will require tremendous power
70 pun lhe pipe through. But after the
mIddie Of the river is passed il is expected
/ that the conical head will emerge and
| gide across the harder surface OF the river
| bottom, leaving the pipe on top of the
( river bottom from that point clear across
/ p the Canadian shore. There are about
/ sltlon, and the work of dragging the pipe
/ across VIII pass through the main by
/ Dec. at the latest. The Improvement will
| cost over $4,000.
| A set of three eventaiI jardinferes of the
/ idISesl MODEL green ground, painted with
! birds and flowers by AIonde which sold in
| Lord Dudley's sale in 1886 for 1868 guineas
! Uhey cost him IL .995) dropped to go gum
| cas- when they appeared in Lord Revel-
! StokeS 5 sale last year, says the Fort
/ nightly Review At the last named col
Z a ln 4ll-a,
| lere OF the largest model, with white aud
/ gold scroll, sold for 1850 guineas a pair
| OF green eventail jardinieres. each paint
| eu WIN tropical birds and flowers on white
| ground, went for 4S0 guineas. ana a pair
! OF Rose du Barri square iardnieres. six
| and one-quarter inches high fetched 210
| gulneaS. Among the Cassobury park
! treasures collected in France soon after
/ the great French revolution by the fifth
! Earl of Essex and sold last year, an
! ONitoIHA vase ana cover on Eros-biue
! ground and painted with a seaport and
/ marine trophy in colOrs in medallions by
| NORM, nTteen inches high. realized the
/ extraordinary sum of l. 800 guineas or
| close on t2,O0O t$l0,000); a garniture of sea
/ green vases, with birds and plants in
DARK blue and colOrS, each about fourteen
and a half inches high, realized l+00 gum
/ edS, anu many other items sold for equally
! eXtraVagant amounts At the Hodgson
! SAFE at ChrlSue'S last year amOung the
/ oid SeFreS porcelain were seventy-siX
/ Whlte plates, with blue lines and gilt
/ edges. These plates realized over . gum
| cas- apiece, but much more artistic ar
/ ucleS may be had from any dealer in
/ modern china at less than as many shil-
/ lings each. Even as far back as 1885
/ certain examples of old Seyres ran well
/ INTO three figures. for at the dispersal
| OF the Bernal collection in that year
pair of vases of the Rose du Barli pat
tern, fourteen and one-half inches bfgh.
| with qlinths, sold for II 492 los and a
pair or vases, turquoise, for Gt7 los, the
ford. But probably neither before nor.
since dId SeNres porcelain realize such
sale in 1882 Collectors We're simply carried
away by the great fame of this extra or
binary collection, and their elthusiasm
OutTan their discretion as doubtless many
| have realized since to their eorrov- So
far as regards old Seyras In +bis col
lection we have only room to mention
| two illustrative examples-a vase and
/ cover. turquoise ground with white ana
gold bands and festCOns of foliage thir-
teen and one-half inches high, Fl 5S5, ana
an oval plateau. gros-bleu festoons and
! medallons initiating moss apafa Tla1.an
! ana Oue-half inches bv EIGHT ana ono
! half inches, E43O An intprestiuo ita,,, II,
Sevres occurred in the coIiection of DI ~
/ Patrick Sinclair T,afnsr sold M SC+La
/ hy's III February last year-a pair Of
painted with portraits Of The I5yn,,Tlss I-1.lls
( Catherine of Russia and intcriarpd iettarg
forming monoglams Of the King of France
and the empress. with crowns in gold
above. This lot sold for 500
w..
4 W ME cremation Of the dead is undoubt-
=.
me me dahgers attending the ordinary bu-
TIa! TIT! pfactlce may have been exaggerated
| rms IS indicated by the chemical and
bactellorloglcal examination Of samples
! OF VIRGIN SOILS; that has lately been made
IpE scotch lneysugator. DIR. James
bucnanan Young The proportion of or
/ Sahlc matter, as judged by the organic
/ carbon ana nitrogen present in the sam
pies, was found TO be not materially
| greater IN soil that has been used for bu-
rial than in good pure agricultural soil
NO pathogenic organisms were discovered
IN the graveyard soil. and the number of
bacteria present though greater than in
virgin soil, was much smaller than one
iS9t 6i7 baiaLp. expect t The groundwater layer of
from bacteria. The results, in fact tend
to to support the idea that properly con
Quoted urlal in suitable and well-drained
soils can cause no risk to public health
AS late as 1924 The Penny Magazine de-
sclibes the instantaneous lights" (what
I we call matches today as coming into
use. and advised adherance to the Under
box on account Of its superior cbeap-
ness, and added the tinder box win
! probably always keep its place in domestic