RE: Question about pitch of underground drainage pipe. Usually perforated pipes are bedded in gravel. When water accumulates in the gravel it'll bubble up in the perforated pipe and at some point it'll discharge out the end. Perforated pipes do not need to be placed on a design slope like a gravity pipe.
Funeral procession arriving at the church. The coffin is covered with an elaborate red pall. A pall (also called mortcloth) is a cloth that covers a casket or coffin at funerals. The word comes from the Latin pallium (cloak), through Old English. It is also a stiffened square card covered with white linen, usually embroidered with a cross or some other appropriate symbol.
Pall Mall, as the game came finally to be called, was played with a curved club, a wooden ball, and two hoops. The court was often made of powdered cockleshells, and the hoops were decorated with flowers. The game lost favor in the 18th and 19th centuries, and little was heard of it until the 1850's.