The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-15
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II IS realized that the canal will be made
wide enough for two boats, each OF forty
six feet beam, to pass each other. The to
tai length Of the canal will be thirty-nVe
miles. Its cost IS estimated al SS0.WJ.OD-
1t is said that there are I'm the state
OF Kansas twenty well built towns with
out single inhabitant. Saratoga, in that
state, has a $4,000 opera house, large
brick hotel. a $4,000 school house, and
number Of fine business houses, and yet
there Is not a single person 10 claim
that city as his home. At Fargo a herder
and his family constitute the sole pop
uiation OF what was once an incorpora-
ted city.
The Buffalo Express says there are two
men in that city who make good living
by acting relief men for small drug
gists who like a half day OFF occasionally.
ana whose business Is not 50 extensive as
to justify the employment of clerk reg
ularly. The law requires that drug store
shall always be in charge OF licensed
pharmacist. These men have regular
round of druggists whom they serve.
They are rarely employed at one place
for more than half day at time, but
they are kept constantly busy, and man
age to make better wages than If they
were hired by the week.
"A few ultra conservative Presbyterians
are startled and alarmed at a recent ut
terance of DR.. Patton, who has always
been looked upon as one OF the most apie
OF all the conservative leaders IN the
church. In speaking of the Bible ne
said: The great question of our time Is
are two ways of dealing with this queS-
ton; one is the ecclesiastical way, one is
the way of scholarship. 1t is the prero-
gatlVe OF the court of last resort 10 say
whether this or that utterance dpes or
does not contraVene our confessional
statements regarding inspiration me
church, in her judicial capacity, cannot
settle the great debate upon this question.
She cannot stop it. The debate IS gong
on, and will go on, and ii must be IN the
hands of men who have special aptitude
for the work"
DIR Lombroso, the Italian specialist in
criminology. has written book on Inc
Female Offender" in which he says. The
female born criminal is far more terrible
than the male. She combines the worst
qualities of both seXes-the Womans excess
sive desire for revenge, cunning, cruelty
love of dress and untruthfulness; the
mans vices. fCkleness, fearlessness, au-
dacity and often muscular strength. Celto
wrote in the fifteen century. No possible
punishments can deter women from heap
ing up crime upon crime. Their perverSl-
ty of mind is more fertile in new crimes
than the imagination of judge IN new
punishments' Rykise said: Feminine
criminality is more cynical, more depraved
and more terrible than the criminality OF
the male Rarely says the Italian prov
erb. lis a woman wicked, but when she is
she surpasses the man.. Then comes
Euripides with this crusher: The violence
of the ocean waves or deVOuring flames is
terrible Terrible is poverty, but woman
is more terrible than all else. "
London bridge seems to be the favorite
resort of the miserables who wish to leap
into eternity says the Boston Herald.
Scores of suicides jump from it every year,
and il is a tradition in Scotland yard that
its suicides are the ones which always
give the greatest trouble TO the police.
They seem to generate puzZling mysteries.
One night last winter four persons-one
woman and three men-iumped from Lon
don bridge between the hours of midnight
and 5 a. m. and each one bothered the
police. Ordinarily a suicide is not much
/ bother. 1t is simply necessary for the
patrolmen In the police boat to catch the
body with boat hook, tow 1t ashore and
turn IL over to the tender mercies of the
coroner. But sometimes 1t is not so sim
pie. One of these suicides for instance,
was the wreckage which had been left in
the wake of young noblemans disSipa-
ton, and II is always a nuisance in Eng
land for young woman of this sort to kill
herself. 1t attracts public attention 10 her
and to the aristocrat's dissipation. That is
certainly enough TO bother the police. An
other of that nights bits of human flotsam
was a man who had the bau taste ~ via,
long letter to the Ianefs. sh"'"
he had been literally driven to his death by
the laws of England, which woutG no..
nit him to make a living, yet insisted on
sending him TO iai " he did not clothe his
children well enough to permit them to
appear a. school The third was well
dressed and of a finely bred appearance
His identity was a great bother When
II was finally found out that he was a
member of family well known indeed,
but secretly affected with an insane faint
self felt, there was much trouble in hid
ing his name as there had at nrst been IN
unearthing it. The fourth victim-ano
his death was n real misfortune-was
man who had been long searched for bv
the police; who could have given very val
liable Information in a most important
criminal case, had he not killed himself
just at the wrong moment.
Some four years ago DIR. S. J.. Hinde
was appointed to the Congo medical serv-
ice. lie afterward received commits
the in ha
state and spent over three years SOL
diering and exploring in that portion of
the dark continent cont Dr. Hinde is now in
viewed by a Westminster Gazette report
er, who asked: lis cannibalism very prev
alent in the district you visited?" Yes. in
many. At N'Gsndu, the headouarl
ters of Congo Lutete. we found that the
chief had gathered together about 10000
cannibal brigands, mostly of the Batateia
race. Through the whole of the Batatela
country and from the Lurimbi northward
for some four days march, one sees.
as | said at the Royal Geographical So
ciety. neither gray hairs, not halt nor
blind Even parents are eaten by their
children on the first sign of approaching
decreptitude. NGandu, l may tell Won
is approached by a very handsome pave.
ment of human skulls, the top being the
only part showing above ground. | count
ed more than a thousand skulls in the
pavement of one gate alone Almost ev
cry tree forming the bona, or fortifica
ton, was crowned with a human skull.
common, suppose, in Central Africa D,
Not very. When we arrived at Lusuna's
town described by Cameron we found
| that Lusuna had died about ten months
before, and we were told that when he
was buried his followers cut the throafs
of hundred men and placed them in the
grave, laid the chiefs body on ton Of
them, then threw in a hundred live women
hlled up the hole, and built a splendid
house upon it, Did you see anytime Of
the pigmies?" Yes, not very far from M
Mona Chellios we came on two villaens
OF them. In reply to a call from orr ou}6a
about hundred of them, men ana W.
men, came round us. They. were ver,,
friendly on that occasion, but at a la ttsr
time we learned to know them in other
moods: It is a curious fact that they are
not afraid of firearms; they drop wb h,ae
they see the flash, and then run in ana
spear or shoot their opponents with anu arl
rows before. he has time to reload :.
/ What sort of a country is the Conc
state for the sportsman" II saw Ios,'
OF game at different times in some MACS
the marshes and grassy plains aiong- t6e
rivers teemed with it-vast fiooks of e
I rets pelicans. geese and many other svse'
cles. On one occasion we counted S9n
hipPopotami IN a line, looking like ridS,.
of black rocks" NO q huge
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