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THE MODERN CEMETERY. 
brick wall; the air chamber is connected with the 
inside by a series of valve registers at bottom of 
wall and the air chambers are then connected with 
ventilating shaft. By this means the air on the inside 
can be kept fresh and sweet. The outer walls all 
have air chambers entirely around them which keeps 
them perfectly dry. Both the outside and inside of 
these walls are covered with a coat of cement plas- 
ter. 
The structure is said to have given great satis- 
faction, and moreover, it is well located in the ceme- 
tery. 
CEMETERY NOTES. 
A Boston lady seeing a mile-stone marked i m. from Boston 
and taking it for a tombstone and taking the i m. for I’m, ex- 
claimed, “how simple, yet how sufficient.’’ 
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This is how the Benton, Mich., Independent gives the pub- 
lic a cemetery note: “An Owosso family is erecting a house for 
their dead in the Owosso cemetery, at a cost of $7,000. Such 
things make very pretty spots in cemetery landscapes.” 
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By the will of the late William V. Lippincott, of Philadel- 
phia, who died in 1893, and which now becomes operative, $10, 
000 is left to the West Laurel Hill Cemetery company, Philadel- 
phia, to be applied to the keeping of his mausoleum in good re- 
pair. This structure is one of the finest of its kind in the East. 
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The trustees of Forest Hill Cemetery, Dunkirk, N. Y., are 
making preparations to expend about $6,000 on their grounds. 
One of the most needed improvements will be the erection of a 
chapel and a new residence for the sexton. A large new entrance 
arch will also be erected, fountains arranged, and the grounds 
generally improved. 
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Master in Chancery J. S. Biery, has filed his decision in fa- 
vor of the defendants in the case of Aaron Jacobs, of South 
Bethlehem, Pa , against the Union Cemetery Association and 
Mayberry S. Weidner, of Allentown. Edward Uenhard had 
owned a cemetery lot, which he sold to Mr. Jacobs, but the 
transfer was never recorded on the books of the association . 
When Mr. Denhard died his heirs sold the lot to Mr. Weidner. 
They did not know of its prior sale. The deed being missing, 
they had a duplicate issued to Mr. Weidner. This transfer was 
recorded on the books of the association. The lot now had two 
owners, and to decide the dispute Mr. Jacobs entered suit 
against the association and Mr. Weidner. 
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A special telegram to the Chicago Inter-Ocean from New 
York reports the following from an interview with John M. May, 
of Chicago: “I am interested with several others, in the estab- 
lishment of graveyards for domestic pets in the large cities of 
this country. We are already well under way in Chicago, and 
expect the scheme to pay well on the investment. The idea is 
to start these burial places in all the cities and all under one 
management. It was our intention originally to have secured a 
plat of ground in a cemetery, but lot-holders made suchastrong 
objection that we gave it up. We shall buy a piece of 
land of from two to five acres in extent, far enough on the out- 
skirts to avoid offending the supersensitive. Then we will pro- 
ceed to fence it in, lay it out in walks, and issue our prospectus. 
We shall charge a moderate price for interment, and will stand 
ready to receive orders for monuments, mausoleums, or statues 
of dogs, horses, cats or birds.” 
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A correspondent of a London paper thus writes of a dog 
cemetery: The idea of a dog cemetery is not by any means a 
new one in England, as such an enclosure is to be found in one 
or two garrison towns. There is such a place of sepulture in 
Edinburgh Castle, in particular, the small space behind the bat- 
tlements, on the north side of that fortress, just in front of the 
battery on which stands that huge historic piece of ordnance, 
Mons Meg. The cemetery is filled with stones erected to the 
memory of regimental pets, with the names of the corps and 
dates, the last going well back to the beginning of the present 
century. The spot, which is not open to the general public, is 
very much neglected. The castle guides, as a rule, point out 
this curious dog cemetery to visitors. 
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In regard to Burial Reform, a New York correspondent of 
the Middletown, N. Y., remarks that the objects of the 
NeW’ York Association will be impossible of accomplishment, 
notwithstanding the active co-operation of Bishop Potter, so long 
as the rich indulge their pride at funerals. The poor are as 
proud as those better off, and follow an example rather than ad- 
vertize their poverty on so public an occasion. The floral ma- 
nia still continues and is a heavy tax. The correspondent de- 
clares it is the rich who need to reform, and their poorer breth- 
ren will readily follow. Pride in funerals has always been a rul- 
ing feature in society, and so has been the equally improper dis- 
play of mourning. A striking contrast to the usual well-to-do is 
that of James Lenox, a wealthy man, who was averse to all dis- 
play, and ordered that his funeral should be private, and that 
even the day and hour should be kept secret. No notices were 
given out, and only the hearse gave -sign of the funeral. No 
funeral sermon was preached and no stone marks the grave. 
This may be carrying privacy too far, but there is a wide gulf 
between this and the prevailing custom. 
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The following comes from London Tit-Bity. In the church- 
yards of Britian several tombstones exist with the accusations of 
murder deeply engraved upon them. A stone over the grave of 
three children in Merrington (Durham) churchyard bears the 
following inscription: 
Sleeping we were slain. 
And here we sleep till we must rise again. 
In Sandridge churchyard, Surrey, on the tombstone of a 
custom house officer who was shot in an encounter with smug- 
glers is the following: 
Thou shalt do no murder, nor shalt thou steal 
Are the commands Jehovah did reveal. 
But thou, O wretch, without fear or dread 
Of thy tremendous Maker, shot me dead. 
On a stone in Cadoxton churchyard, Glamorganshire, is in- 
scribed the most fearful accusation of murder to be found on any 
tomb in Great Britain: 
“TO RECORD MURDER. 
“This stone was erected over the body of Margaret Wil- 
liams, age 26, living in service in this parish, who was found dead 
with marks of violence upon her in a ditch on a marsh below this 
churchyard on the morning of Sunday, the 14th July, 1822. 
“Although the savage murderer escaped fora season the de- 
tection of man, yet God hath set his mark upon him either for 
time or eternity, and the cry of blood will assuredly pursue him 
to certain and terrible but righteous judgment.” 
A tombstone stood in Dulverton churchyard a few years ago 
on which was inscribed: * 
~ Poisoned by the doctor, neglected by the nurse. 
The brother robbed the widow, which made the matter worse. 
