The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-14

! salary ana some others is as follows.
President c. NJ. Schwab $50. 1925 900
Viceroy of Ireland .......... 100 900
Jean de Reszke, tenor .......... 100, 00C
PRESIDENT New York Life ...... 100, 00(
| president Mutual Life .......... 100, 900
president Equitable Life ...... 100,0 0C
President Havemeyer, of Sugar
Trust Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Archdeacon of Canterbury 49,. $4,000
! Viceroy of India ................. 1900
President Galloway of American
Locomotive Company ,...... $4,000
President of the United States. $4,000
President Cassatt, of Pennsyl-
vania Railroad ............. $4,000
| Archbishop of York .......-.... $4,000
Lord High Chancellor of Eng
land ........................ $4,000
LORD Chlef Justice of England. 10000
| President Delafield, of National
| Fark Bank ........... 40, 00C
1t is expected by cemetery super
intendents that tombstones will soon be
obsolete, and that cemeteries will be
more park-like. says the New York
Post. 1t is a desirable reform Gene
teries with their forests of stone shafts
| give only stone-yard impression, and
none of the soothing effect of land
scape is possible. The money that has
| bOCi WdSICQ III LOIIlDSlOU6 erection
would create more enduring works of
art, placed where they might have a
gratifying and educating influence. It
| is becoming generally recognized, too,
| that public library, a college build
| ing, or a scholarship is better me-
mortal than shaft of cold stone. The
conversion of cemeteries into parks
will, of course, be an evolution, the
| first step in which is the dispensing
with the mound effect in burial lots.
In one Chicago cemetery the limit for
| headstones was set some time ago at
eight inches above the grass level.
Later the limit was set at four inches,
and more recent change makes it
one inch. This shows the trend of cem-
etery methods.
The few pairs of pigeons brought a
hundred years ago from Venice to Vi
emma have multiplied to such an amaz-
| ing extent as to have become a public
pest says an exchange. There is great
difficulty in exterminating these pretty
creatures, as, besides the danger in
volved TO the public in shooting them,
many of the birds would perhaps only
| be wounded. The town council have,
therefore, resolved that as many as
possible shall be caught alive, killed
and given to poor families, and that
| for some years fresh eggs in equal
numbers shall be distracted from the
nests The birds. which are great fav-
orites with the cabmen and porters,
are fed as regularly as the horses,
clouds of pigeons descending at the first
throw of corn. Hundreds of birds
await an eccentric lady who appears
every day in the Town Park in sum-
mer and winter with food for them.
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meal and other food, and they descend
at her call She is closely yelled and
her name is unknown. The habitues
of the park have dubbed her the Bar
| oness." She wept upon being told by
| park keeper that the pigeons were
to be caught and killed. and great dis
satisfaction is also expressed by the
cabmen.
The important work which the
Eastern and Eastern Extension Tele-
graph Companies have for some time
| been engaged upon with view to i'm
! proving their cable service to South
Africa and Australia has been COM
| pleted, says the London Telegraph. 1t
has involved the laying of nearly $4,000
| nautical miles of cable, at an expendi-
ture of over G3000.000 (about $15,000,-
| 000), and it will result in financial
| benefit to all who desire to communi-
cate with the Cape and the land of the
Southern Cross. The first part of this
work consisted in the laying of a new
cable between Cornwall and the Cape,
which was completed in the early part
! of last year. The extension from
South Africa to West Australia has
just been successfully accomplished,
| leaving the remaining section, between
Perth and Adelaide, to be laid early
next year. The new route has connect
! ed British possessions which were pre-
viously outside the pale of telegraphic
commandments as the Islands of
] Ascension and st. Helena, in the At
lantic, and Rodriguez and the Cocos-
| Keeling Islands, in the Pacific ocean,
and has been provided by the COM
panies without any government assis-
lance in the shape of subsidy or
! guarantee.
Further evidence that water puri-
| fees itself from bacteria in the process
of freezing is furnished in the reports
| of experiments and Investigations made
| by the Massa chusetts Board of Health
| during the early part of the present
year, says the New York Evening Sun.
| 1t was learned in these experiments
| that water, in its tendency to purify
itself during the period of crystalliza-
ton, will push the bacteria down into
j the unfrozen liquid. but if the pond is
SO shallow that all the water freezes
into a solid mass, it is evident that all
| the bacteria are contained in the ice,
and are more numerous at the bottom
| than at the top. Hence the board feels
that ice should be cut only on deep
water, the deeper the better, inasmuch
| as the depth furnishes a retreat for
the bacteria. Illustrative of this point
may be mentioned that part of the ex-
pertinent when polluted water was
frozen in a pail. In the rapid trans
| formation of that water into ice. the
| bacteria did not have time to escape
from the top and sides entirely. but
! during the freezing process the greater
| bulk of them moved toward the center.
when the ice was the last to solidify
and when the ice was cut into pieces
| for examination, the outside was found
to contain about 100 bacteria per cubic
centimeter while the middle contained
about 10000. Similar experiments were
made with sewage, and bacteria were
always driven back from the ice for
nation.
Recently. there appeared in some
Paris papers an appeal for aid that re-
called a forgotten tragedy which at the
time it occurred made more than a
| nine days sensation. A few years ago
the pet of Paris was the Baroness de
| Rahden, an "equestrienne" in the Nou-
veau-Cirque, She was young, extreme
~ beautiful and a most daring rider.