The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-22

an international congress of photography
to be held in Paris next year. A commit
tee has been appointed for the purpose
under the presidency of NJ. Jansen. This
committee is subdivided into five sum-
commissions which will have charge of
the five sections and will prepare the p.o-
gramme of the work to be carried out in
the sessions of the congress. These five
sections are constituted as follows
l. Physical questions relating to photog-
raphy. ,. Photographic materials. 3.
Photographic chemistry. 4. Technology
and photography. B. Legal and profession
al questions. The fee for admission is
fixed al 10 francs (s2).
The Pioneer, the first regular sleeping
car built by the Pullmans, has been def
nitely retired from service. On one other
occasion il was retired, but was aga
pressed into service for the transportation
of troops during the war with Spain. 1t
was built about the year 1888 in the shops
at Bloomington, HI. at cost of S1S,O0l
and made it's first trip on the Chicago and
Alton Railway. The cost of construction
was at that time regarded as extravagant,
but the immediate popularity of the ac-
commodatons afforded by it created the
demand for the present system. The can
appears shabby small and announcement
but the fundamental ideas embodied in
construction of the present luxurious cars
seem present to a surprising extent in this
prototype of modern cars, so that the
name Pioneer appears TO have been pro-
phetic.
One of the grimmest tasks that fall TO
the lot of the sculptor is that of taking
death masks. This is often the case
where a statue is to be made of the de
ceased, for the features are indellb'y and
perfectly preserved by this methed. Up
to the last century it seems TO have been
a common custom to take death masks
and there are a number of celebrated col
Iections of these relics of some of the
| great personages who once made history.
| Charles l and Cromwell. his great rival,
are preserved to us in this way. There
are few art works that have the fasciLa-
| ton of these frozen linelments, with all
| the ruggedneSS and every scar preserved.
| 1t is easy to make a mask. The face is
| oiled and soft plaster pressed down upon
| the countenance After obtain ng this
mold IL is only necessary TO fill it with
melted wax to obtain a perfect cast. MOL
| lekens, the celebrated sculptor of the last
century, always mixed up his plaster ana
| had his kit ready when he saw the death
of any well-knowE persons announced,
| in case he should be summoned TO take a
| mask 1t was this shrewdness that en-
| abled Nollekens to leave a fortune of ST.
| 100000 when he died
| An extraordinary state of affairs has
| been disclosed by the arrest in Palermo,
| Sicily, of Deputy Palizzolo charged with
| having procured the murder of Common
| datore Notarbartolo six years ago by hlred
| assassins. Sgnor Palizzolo is shown TO
| have been chief of the Malta, the IRE
| pressible secret organization of crime in
| Sicily, and his house was besieged by
clientele of persons DESTROYS of his Infiu-
| ence, lawful or Illicit. OF these he daily
| held a levee in the most literal sense, as
| he received in bed, got up and performed
! all the operations of the toilet in public
| In the heterogeneous crowd magistrates,
| Judges and public functionares were in
| termingled with suspicious characters or
| ticket-of-leave men seeking PERMISSION 10
| carry arms civic officials DESTROYS OF mu-
| nicipal contracts, students anxious Tor a
| certificate of scholastic year or term
| they had not passed, all the rank and ME
of the army of corruption We're at ms
| bedside or in his ante-room. Among his
| friends was the celebrated brigand Leone,
| who constantly sent him presents OF coun-
| try produce and visited him in Palermo
| Another member of the same honored pro-
| fession, one Valvo. paid his respects 10
| him in the precincts of the municipality
| itself where Palizzolo was employed as
| assessor of the urban police, before pelhS
driven from office by his terrible enemy
| Notarbartolo. The victory of the latter IS
what prompted his assassination.
PEOPLE in this country are so much &C
customed to look upon the young King OF
| Spain as a mere infant, but recently pro-
| noted 10 knickerbOckers, that the follow
| ing notes may serve to call attention 10
| the fact that within a couple OF years he
will attain his legal majority and as
| sume the reins of government of Spain IN
lieu of his mother, the present regent lie
| is no longer child, but tall for his age,
well developed, with good healthy color
| in his face. His eyes are quick ana m
telligent. and he is much better looking
than he appears in his portrait He is &C
customed to all bodily exercises, and rides
| on horseback every day, sometimes taking
out five or six different horses An hour
is spent daily in the gymnasium fitted up
for his use, and he also has daily lesson
in fencing lie rises at all the year
round From $50 10 10 he studies, at 10
he rides for an hour, from II till noon
| lessons again. At noon comes luncheon,
| with a professor on duty, and one of the
| generals in attendance; after that more
lessons until 8, and then riding and driV-
ing. He dimes at with his sisters; at $50
| he takes a music lesson, and at goes TO
bed With regard to his studies he is par
ticularly fond of history and geography,
| speaks French, English and German flu
emily, and is well up in Latin He is de-
| voted to his mother, who, while leading
him to take a continually increasing part
| in the general life of court endeavors as
| far as possible to modernize all that eti-
quette which, dating from the reign OF
| Philippe II, hampers intellect sincerity
| and common sense. His habirual dress is
that of cadet of the military school, the
only indication of his rank being the min
iature badge of the order of the Golden
| Fleece which peeps forth from the collar
| of his tunic
Instances of remarkably thin men are
not uncommon, but Claude AMBROSE Seu-
rat, who was exhibited in 1926, was such
an extraordinary parsonage that no few
er than 10000 persons visited him i'm
few weeks. Seurat was born in 1897 and
was therefore 2S years of age when he
| made his appearance. Ashley Cooper, the
| famous physician was among the throng
| who poured into the building in which Seu-
| rat received those who were anxious to
| see him and in writing of him be said ::