The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-09
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THE Jewish religion has no theology"
says the Hebrew Journal, mo teachings of
the essence and being of Deity. Judaism
never can have a theology, and the word is
misnomer in reference to Jewish reli-
gious learning and institutions"
An authority in the field Of medical
statistics, DR.. Escherich, had collected
figures about the size and weight of re-
cruits for the army, arranged according
TO their occupation. The average taken
from his notes covering a number of years
establishes twelve different average
weights for various trades. which are as
follows: The biggest and strongest of all
are: First, brewers and coopers; then,
second, the carpenters; third, the butch
ers; fourth, bakers and millers; fifth, stu
dents; six, masons and house painters;
seventh, locksmiths and blacksmiths;
eighth, weavers; nine shoemakers; tenth,
porters and walters, and eleventh, cab
met makers and turner's. The trade rep
resented by the smallest men is tailoring.
While all these weights were taken in
a certain district of Germany only, they
furnish a good average, for the men
weighed were all young The mean
weight of the entire number was III
pounds The heaviest was a beer brewer
weighing 1877 pounds, while the lightest
was a tailor tipping the scales at "a.
If the latest phrase of modern ingen-
uity proves a success, says the New York
Tribune, there will be no more heavy
trampiing and the rhythmic clicking of
the hoofs of four-footed steeds. There has
been invented new horseshoe steel
frame about which is built a cushion of
vulcanized rubber. The advantage claim
ed for it is that as the rubber instead of
metal strikes the ground there is no con-
cussion or jar, and the horses hoof, leg
and shoulder are saved. Thirty-three per
cent. of the diseases of horses, it has been
said are maladies of the foot, and there
is little question but that even the best
shoeing, as it is done now by burning the
hoof, is in a measure injurious. This new
horseshoe is TO be put on cold, and the
hoof simply pared or cut to fit. 1t is nail
ed on in the ordinary way. An additional
advantage of the rubber sole is that it will
give the horse a f1rmer hold upon wet or
treacherous pavements, and, by securing
him a good purchase, enable him to go up
or come down steep hills with heavy
load far more easily than at present.
We all know how a horrid custom of
the past, which was that of human sac
rifice in conjunction with the erection of a
building, or the construction of bridge
says the New York Times. 1t was sup
posed that no such superstition was dis
coverable among the Drayido-Ttbetan
races. A correspondent writes to Nature
that this belief does exist. There was a
ridiculous story rife in Bengal, not so
long ago, that the Queen of England for
some purpose unknown, wanted the heads
of five children from sa9ph
the villagers hid, and were prepared to
fight for their children. 1t took months
before the people could be made to be-
lieve how utterly absurd was the story
After awhile 1t was found out that the
report of children having been wanted
arose from the fact that a foundation was
to be built for a great railroad bridge,
1t was discovered that among the people
living in the past it had been the custom
to sacrifice victim when anything of
Importance in the way of a building was
undertaken. Then the stories of former
ages, when these acts were carried on,
had not passed away, and they remain in
folklore. At least the dread of the Ben
gal coolies was based on tradition.
According to news received in London,
India has produced this year the largest
crop of cotton known in all it's commercial
history, says the New York Tribune. The
produce brought to market during the
year which closed last July was 8 296 900
bales, each of 400 pounds weight Of this
the local mills consumed Sc per cent, only
A per cent being shipped to foreign ports.
The consumption of more than half the
entire crop in the country in which it was
grown indicates a commercial revolution
of profound Importance to England For
under the influence of British education.
India is now using its cotton to supply its
own cloth to it's own people, and is export
ing the bulk of what it can spare to ia
pan and other Asiatic, and even African
countries, Lancashire being, therefore.
not only deprived of the principal export
market for its piece goods in India, but
having also to encounter Indian competi-
tion in other Oriental countries. When
one considers that, besides having taught
india to grow and manufacture its own
cotton, England has, moreover instructed
the people of her great dependency how to
produce their own clothes, their tea. cor
fee and even gold-in one word. how She
has opened up the resources of the coun-
try and taught the natives self-reliance-
II must be confessed that Great Britain's
rule over Hindostan has been both bene-
ficent and even unselhsh.
One of the few trades in the world
that is controlled by the laborers them
There is but one known mine in the world
and that is operated and owned by the
miners themselves on the cooperative
plan. Emery comes from the Island Of
Naxos, in the Eastern Mediterranean
whence it has been exported for the Ia n
two centuries or more. The beds are in
the northeast of the island, the deposit
descending into some of the neighboring
Islands, the emery being found in lentic.
ular masses, resting on layers Of scbist in
limestone, almost identical with Parian
marble, the finest marble known, which
comes from the Island of Paros. close Inv.
There are about 300 men engaged in the
trade, all of whom have to be married he
fore they are admitted to the fraternity.
Inc material Is much too hard to be dug
out, or even blasted. Great fires are light'
ed around the blocks till the natural
cracks expand with the heat, and levers
are then inserted to pry them apart This
system is continued until the blocks arc
reduced in size to masses Of a cubic foot
or less, and they are then shipped as n
they We're Goals. There are said to he N
100000 tons yet available nj Navos -