THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
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show the relative number of micro organisms at dif- 
ferent depths in graves, and above and below the 
coffin. The largest number seemed to be found 
about four feet six inches down, in one case there 
being 7,222,000 per gramme. These results were 
calculated to reassure them, and to keep inhu- 
mation from falling into disrepute. At the close 
of the paper. Professor Geikie said he had only one 
remark to make, and that was from a sentimental 
point of view. He was afraid it completely extin- 
guished the corpse candles which country folks sup- 
posed they saw in churchyards. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
Jasper, Mo., now has a handsome cemetery, and the Jasper 
Bee calls on the citizens to give it their “hearty support.” 
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A City Improvement Society has taken in hand the improve- 
ment of the local cemeteries of Newburyport, Mass. It is a time- 
ly project and pursued with intelligence and with proper support 
will create renewed interest to the permanent pleasure and prof- 
it of the community. 
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It is interesting to note that all people are not inclined to 
favor giving over the parks to public monuments. This is 
evidenced by the opposition manifested in Syracuse, N. Y., of 
the residents about Fayette Park to the proposition to place the 
soldier’s monument there. 
* * * 
A cemetery near Providence, R. I., is offering special in- 
ducements to people to die early. A large sign board proclaims 
that lots will be sold at the lowest possible prices, and that they 
can be paid for in monthly installments. This is reported to be 
the sequel to proposed auction sales at the same place which did 
not materialize for lack of audience. 
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The long continued drought has had a disastrous effect on 
the appearance of many of our cemeteries, and such a gener- 
al diffusion of dry weather has seldom been known in the United 
States. Even with ample water facilities it has been difficult to 
take sufficient care of large tracts to keep up appearances, while 
in a majority of cases such attempts have been futile. 
* * * 
At a recent meeting of Pine Grove Cemetery Association, 
Deering, Me., a new code of by-laws was adopted. Every lot- 
holder is now a member of the Association and the officers form 
a board of directors ex-officio. Lot-holders have a vote for every 
200 square feet in area of their lots. A plan for perpetual care 
of lots is to be prepared and submitted. The invested fund of 
the Association now amounts to $2,100. 
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We are very busy, says Mr. William Salway, superintend- 
ent of Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, O., excavating for 
two new lakes, and raising low land with the earth taken out. 
We shall use the part so raised for single graves, which will be 
worth when completed between $50,000 and $60,000, and at the 
same time much improve the locality by the change. We 
have recently built a new shelter house at a cost of $1100, with 
modern conveniences. 
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I see in your notes a statement concerning an old cemetery 
at Seigfrieds Bridge, Pa., writes the secretary of Cedar 
Grove Cemetery, Long Island, N. Y., “and it might be of inter- 
est to note that in one part of our cemetery, now at the end of 
Its initial year, there is a burying ground with some well preser- 
ved stones with clear cut inscriptions and queer epitaphs, dating 
from 1706 to 1720 and later. It has been trimmed up and new 
trees and shrubs planted, and with the exception of well worn 
marks of time, is the same burying ground of colonial Long 
Island.’’ 
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Lot owners in Brooklyn cemeteries seem to have good cause 
for complaint against the annoyances imposed upon them by the 
numerous florists and gardeners who have established themselves 
in close proximity to the entrances, the better to push trade. 
This of course could be obviated in large measure by the ceme- 
tery corporations operating their own greenhouses, and it is quite 
open for discussion whether it would not be better to do so and 
take what revenue might result, than negatively to encourage 
conditions which involve unpleasant consequences and sometimes 
imposition on their patrons. 
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The mausoleum in course of construction by Chauncey M. 
Depew, in memory of his wife, in the Hillside Cemetery, Peek- 
skill, N. Y., is of granite, classical in design and almost devoid 
of ornamentation. It will be twenty feet long, sixteen feet wide 
and seventeen feet high. The roof will consist of two huge slabs 
of granite, with a granite cap. The entrance will face the west, 
and will have bronze doors. A wreath carved in the stone over 
these doors and the scroll work on cornices under the corners of 
the roof will be the sole ornamentation. Openings cut in the 
granite in the shape of a Greek cross in the north and south walls 
will admit air and light. The mausoleum will cost about $20,000. 
XXX 
In the District Court of Douglas county, Neb., in the case 
of Barber vs. Baldwin and Callahan, president and sexton of 
Prospect Hill Cemetery, suit was brought for $125 damages on 
account of the cemetery employes entering on the said Barber’s 
lot, trimming some trees and shrubs, and removing two small 
markers. After two full days’ trial, the court decided that inas- 
much as the said cemetery had no rules or regulations at the 
time of the purchase of this lot, nor for twenty years after, the 
said cemetery association had no right to enter this lot ‘without 
first obtaining the consent of the lot owner to make this or any 
other improvement. Court decided in favor of the plaintiff. 
$35 damages and costs, 
A monument erected in the Church of St. Saviour, London, 
preserves the memory of Dr. Taylor, a famous pill maker. This 
monument represents the doctor in a reclining attitude. In one 
hand he holds a scroll, bearing a most enthusiastic eulogy of 
“Taylor’s pills.” It stands near the pulpit, where the congrega- 
could not help seeing it. In the church at Godaiming, there is, 
against the south wall of the south transept, a mural monument 
bearing the following inscription: “Sacred to the memory of 
Nathaniel Godbold, Esq., inventor and proprietor of that excel- 
lent medicine, the Vegetable Balsam, for the cure of Consump- 
tions and Asthmas. He departed this life the 17th day of Dec- 
ember, 1799, aged 69.” At the Pere la Chaise Cemetery, Paris, 
there stands, or stood, in a conspicuous position, a monument to 
Pierre Cabochard, grocer, with a pathetic inscription, which, af- 
ter relating the many virtues of the defunct, closes thus: “His 
inconsolable widow dedicates this monument to his memory, 
and continues the same business at the^old stand, 187 Rue 
Mouffetard.” 
To the foregoing, which we take from the Funeral Direct- 
ors' 'Jour 7 tal, might be added the inscription on the tombstone 
erected at the grave of a marble dealer’s .wife in a southern state, 
which informs the reader of the cost of the monument and where 
it was made. 
