The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-04-26


cashier must make good money taken by
wood was entered by burglars who rif1ed
the safe. o. F. Ulland, owner of the bank,
brought suit against Burr Payne, his
cashier, for $500. claiming that Payne
left the burgIar-proof safe unlocked and
that he had kept more money there than
he was supposed to. The Jury awarded
Mr.. Ulland $S2S.5o
The Car of Russiss income is H.
100000 year, says an exchange. Next
to the Car is the Sultan of Turkey, whose
"aPpropria tons" come to f1,250,00O Next
inorder in the list comes the aged EN-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria, who has
tSO0,OOO per annum paid to him, and the
Kaiser is given 100000 by the fatherland.
The King of Italy receives a trihe under
100000, and 100000 less is the 6hah's sal
airy. II is at this point that Great Brit
ain comes In, seventh on the list If
countries were ruled at so much a, head,
the calculated results would be very strik-
ing. Reckoned to the nearest penny the
Shah gets Is. 3D. from each of his subjects
per year for himself, and the Sultan of
Turkey, as in the other list, comes Sec
ond, his figure working out at Sd per
Turk.
One of the latest CHASTITY fads is en-
balmtng dogs. Those emotional persons
who could not bear 10 give up their dar-
ling pet even after the animal was stiff
In death, and so had it stuffed, have
abandoned that process in favor of en-
oalm1ng, and now have the Fido standing
on the hearth rug posing greeting when
they RETURN even if he cannot frisk as
In life. Embalming is supposed to have
advantages over stuffing, in that the vic
inns
those persons to whom money is no OBJ
1ect, and the preservation of their dar-
ling is much, must pay a little more for
this method, and that is apt to make it
more desirable in their eyes 1t costs
from so to $50 to embam dog according
to the latest process, and he is warrant
ed to last indefinitely. 1t is reported
that when thoughtful owners leave town
for the summer, Fido, embalmed, is Sc
eurely packed away in camphor from the
moths, but barring that little detail he is
no trouble whateyer.-New York Tele-
gram.
"A curious custom prevails at funerals
in some parts of Wales says the New
York Tribune. "A poor person is hired
"a long, lean, ugly, lamentabie rascal
TO perform the duties of sin eater. Bread
and beer are passed to the man over the
corpse or laid on it; these ne consumes,
and by the process he is supposed to take
on him all the sins of the deceased and
free the person from walking after death.
When sin eater is not employed, glasses
OF wine and funeral biscuits are given to
each bearer across the coffin. The peo-
pie believe that every drop of wine drunk
at funeral is a sin committed by the
deceased, but that by drinking the wine
the soul of the dead is released from the
burden Of the sin. In some places it is
the custom to send to the friends of a
family after death bag of biscuits with
the card of the deceased. These funeral
biscuits, often small, round sponge cakes.
were known as arvel bread, arVel meaning
ale. When arvel bread is passed around
at funeral each guest is expected to
put shilling on the plate.
No single feature of our commercial
expansion is more striking than the in
crease in the per capita revenues of the
Postofffce Department, Our Washington
correspondent, says the New York Jour
mel of Commerce. has given the proceeds
of the sales of stamped paper for TWEEN
ty years, but rapid as the growth has
been, expressed in annual totals, the
rapidity of the growth does not fully APP
pear till we compare this evidence of the
Sc made of the postal facilities with
the population of the country. In 1901 the
sales of postage stamps of every variety
amount to 81 cents for every inhabitant.
old and young. That was, a year of
great prosperity; the resumption of
specie payments and enormous exports of
wheat to Europe gave an impetus to bus
mess that lasted till the financial disturb
ances of 1884. The year 1890 was also
year of prosperity. though not nearly so
marked as 1892. In 1890 the sales of pos
tage stamps amounted to very nearly 95
cents for every inhabitant; in 1900 it
amounted to little over s133 The rev.
enue from stamp sales was practically
three times as large as it was nineteen
years earlier, though the population in
creased not quite 90 per cent. and the
proceeds of stamp sales per capita was
very nearly twice as great 1900 as it was
in 1881. At the earlier date, too letter
postage was 50 per cent. higher than it
is now, and the maximum weight for a
single rate of postage was one-half of
what it is now.
Samuel d. Babcock formerly held the
reputation of being director in more cor
porations than any other man in New
York, says the New York correspondence
of the Philadelphia Ledger. His income
from directors fees is said to have
amounted to thouSa nds of dollars year.
But he no longer holds that distinction.
He is still director IN twenty-three insti-
tutions but more than twenty other New
Workers now break that record. The
greatest directors in this city and prob
ably in the world are Senator Chauncsy
M. Depew, William K, Vanderbilt, Ed
ward d. Adams and James Stillman,
president of the National City Bank It
does not always follow that because a
mans interests are very important and
his power extensive that he is a mem
Der of many boards of directors. The
richest man In the world, John D. Rookie
Teller, Is director Of only three companies,
the Standard Oil the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas Company and Chicago Ter
ninal Transfer Company. Andrew Car
negie, who may be said to rank next to
Mr. Rockefeller, serves in only three
boards, but, then, he is "out of active
business" now Mr.. Rockefeller's less
rich brother, William, whose son was
married to James Stillman's daughter, is
director in twenty-five corporations ii.
II. Rogers, another Standard Oil man,
is a member of twenty-five boards. John
Jacob Astor is member of sixteen;
Geo. f. Baker of thirty; VIM. II. Baldwin,
Jr., of twenty-one; Milo M. Bedding CT
twenty-six; August Belmont, of thirty
two; ex-Secretary Bliss of eight; Antho-
ny N. Brady of thirty; George Croker,
of sixteen; Thomas Dolan, of twenty; w.
l.. Elkins, Jr. of eight; ex-Secretary Fair
child, of twelve, and Charles r. Flint,