The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-18
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An OFFICER high in army circles suggests that
as solution Of the Indian question, the red
man be enlisted in the regular army. He says
that they make good soldiers but very poor
Former 10 be serious fact, while the interior
department has made almost "a utter failure of
converting them into farmers.
The LASH has never been abolished as means
ofdscipline in the psnal institutions of Germany.
Generally they use taoag twenty inches lony,
fastened to a handle yard long. The lash is
thickest at the end The thickness varies ac-
cording 70 the provinces. But the smallest lashes
are Two inches thick. Only in Saxony are the
Dimensions fixei oy law. the handle there being
thirty nine inches long and the lash JhrSy-siK
lncnes- The maximum number OF blows is LETT
10 the judgment OF the prison directors, but il
must not exceed twenty-five in Mecklenburg
and Oidenburg, thirty In Saxony, AID sixty in
Prussia.
SPEAKING OF steamship nagnates, Herman
Oelrichs, Of New York, the famous athlete and
manager OF the North German Lloyds. got of
a curious thought at lunch this week ''In the
past decade, he said, tine conveniences and
safeguards Of ocean travel have been so vastly
developed that the mortality and sickness rate
OF passengers have fallen to lie - than one fifth
OF that which prevails in our most healthful
cities This is why the life assurance compa-
mes no longer object tn their policy holders
going abroad at any reason of the year. So
sare and salutary is OCEAN travel that fancy
man could prolong his life indefinitely by Civ
ing up dwelling on terra hrma. and passing his
days on the great greyhounds of the North
Atlantic
OF ALL THE STRANGE MEN who have come into
the Senate of the United States since the war,
Preston b. Plumb of Kansas is one of the most
remarkably. He is a tall, raw boned man, who
wears SLOUGH hat and dresses hike a country
man. Years ago he went from tine east TO the
west and settled in Kansas, whore he edited
q NJ ha I'd
as the colonel OF a regiment, and after the con
hict settled at Emporia, in one ofsthe richest
sections of Kansas. Here he always edited
newspaper, until the great iron highways began
to be built across that fertile prairie He then
got into railroading, and finally into the Senate,
where he has become conspicuous member
He is wealthy, but puts on no style living a
very quiet life. He is not much of q speaker,
out exercises good deal OF influence on the re-
publican side.
ONE of the most remarkable monuments 10
America is in San Luis, Obispo county, South
ern California. A great rock rises $50 feet
above the plain of Csrissa, and in the distancs
looks rugged and forbidiing On near up
proach it is seen to have on its eastern side an
opening % feet broad, which lads into an inner
temple or court, with level floor 225 feet long
and 125 feet broad at its widest part The cell
ing is 60 TO 100 feet high This great natural
cathedral is a wonder to geoio sists. but it is
more wonderful to archBologistS 1t was evil
IDENTIFY used by prehistoric men temple of
worship or a capitol of government. On the
walls are paintings in red, white and black
doubtless having meaning. There are figures
representing fields, suns, forts spears. men, and
animals. The colors are apparently as bright
as when laid on. The wonder was discovered
by Franciscan missionaries 100 years ago, and
there has been no change in it's appearance
since. When or by whom the walls were deco
rated no one knows. The Indian tribes had no
traditions concerning the work, and regarded it
with superStitious reverence.