The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-28

to 49, of not far from 5000. there are only four
boarding schools, with capacity of $50 pupiis
On one of these reservations (Rosebudj there
are day schools with a capacity for about 400
more, leaving 1880 children upon these five
reservations with no local school accommoda.
tions.
COUNT ToLsToI writes from Moscow, date OF
March IS, of the famine relief work: "Our work
has progressed well to the present time that ia
to say, we have perceived clearly that onr
undertaking is productive of that fruit which
we expected from it, and that, up to the pres
ent date, we have had no lack of means or az
helpful workers. Four times it has happened
that we have been frightened by too broad an
extension of our activity and have come to a
halt, as we could not foresee any enlargement
of our means, Thus, we paused when we had
six soup kitchens and 1900 rubles. Then Wa
paused at twenty. then at sixty kitchens, and
quite recently, just before my departure wa
called halt and contracted the sphers of onr
activity, when we cast up our accounts and saw
that we had 176 kitchens and needed 6, 900 rubles
In order to carry the undertaking to a success
full conclusion. But on this occasion as on the
others, on coming hither, found fresh con.
trlbutions to cover our deficit, and we are pro.
ceeding boldly with our work"
On THE SUBJECT. Dogs in War; a writer in
Bldckwood's Magazine says: Dogs in some
instances carry a concise dispatch in a small
metal case fastened TO the collar, and this GER
tainly seems to have the advantage of Fsecuritv
as attracting the least possible amount Of atten
ton; whereas the leather letter-case hanging
from the collar, or the two leather pockets at
tached to a strap passing under the body and
kept in position by second strap across the
chest, though, of course, available for bulkier
documents, is undoubtedly more conspicuous
and more liable to render the dog an object Of
suspicion and q mark for a bullet. BY similar
arrangement of straps the war-dog is enabled to
carry a small case of ammunition. and is thus
made useful on the outward march, ere he ia
dispatched on his solitary journey as military
postman. Some sanguine trainers even hope
that dogs may be trained to return to the munit-
ion wagons during the heat of the battle, TO bring
fresh supplies to the fighters, regardless of all
danger from shell and bullets, 1t would seem
more natural to enlist their services as water
carriers to bring drink to the wounded and
dying.
THERE is probably no saltwater system in
England, or even in Europe, as that which the
city Of Birmingham, England, has in contem-
plation, the plan INVOLVING an outlay of some
$25, 900 900, and in the neighborhood of eighty
miles OF conduits tunnels and pipes to bring
the water to the city. The present consump-
ton Of the city, which is some days as high as
22,000,000 gallons, is rapidly exhausting the
capacity of the watershed from which It is
drawn, and the municipal authorities have
selected as the site Of the new reservoirs a val
ley in Wales in which two rivers Join; a valley
which is about 800 feet above the city surround
cd by region practically uninhabitabe. thus
making the future pollution of the water i'm
probable, and the supply is regarded as pract-
cally ineXhaustibe The proposed undertaking
is said to present some very formidable engineer
ing difficulties, among these being, first, the
erection of dams which will make the first reese
voir something over three miles long; then
there are nine miles of tunnel, principally
through rock; thirty five miles OF conduit over
and under the surface, and thirty five miles Of
pipe. The plan includes five reservoirs in all,
all connected and all independent, and scatter.
ed over an area of seventy square miles.