The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-15
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me average daily advance or the SIM
plon tunnel is about thirty feet, but the
contrac ors viii have to average forty-two
10 forty-sx feet per day In order to meet
their engagements. About 2,o00 men are at
work with twelve drills. The calculated
length between the two heads Of the tun-
mel is twelve and one-hah miles
appointed by the Superior Council Of Pub
lie Instruction to the chair of COMPARE
tive anatomy in the University of Pavia,
is one Of the most learned and famous of
Italian women. She is a doctor of naedi-
cine, and has written several books on
subjects relating to comparative anatomy.
She has been honored by several learned
societies for her services to the cause of
science.
The English friends of DR.. Donaldson
Smith, the well-known American explorer,
who left Berbera, on the Somali coast.
ABOUT two months ago with the object Of
reading an expedition across SomaHland
to Lake Rudolph, and thence to the Nile,
are anxious for his safety. He had set
MS heart upon getting successfully
through to the Nile, and had taken, great
pains In hitting out his expedition with ev-
cry requisite in quiet, unobtrusive man.
ner to avoid publicity. But he may have
encountered unexpected difficulties owing
to the native rising, and. news of his well
being will be welcomed by his friends.
Judging from a recent report of the
registrar general of New Zealand, that
fine martial race, the Maors, is going the
way of all aborigines whose country has
been colonized by the whites. They may
not become absolutely extinct for few
more decades, but their doom is sealed,
Among the causes officially assigned for
the thinning of their numbers are the high
infantile mortality resulting from improp-
er food, exposure and the want of ordi-
nary care, constitutions debilitated by past
debauchery, the belief in native doctors
and neglect of the sick, and the adoption
of European habits and costumes, leading
10 diseases of the respiratory organs A
Maori NJ. A, Mr.. Negata, in addressing
recent conference of his countrymen, said
that drink was pauperizing them and sap
ping their vitality
"A Russian, writing to st. Petersburg
paper as to the condition or affairs in the
British Soudan, AYERS that the soldiers are
complaining loudly of the scarcity of pro-
visions and they assert that in the bread
supplied to them there is more dust than
flour. The harvest has been a total fail
ure, and all supplies come from Egypt,
whence the merchants have taken care
to send the worst stores which they had
In stock. The condition of the interior is
simply detestabe, and it is generally felt
that all the instructions issued by the gov
eminent are powerless to relieve the suf-
ferings of the people. The British govern
ment, following the lead of Lord Kitch-
ener, represents the Soudan as a rich and
remunerative country. At present its adj
ministrat ton is exceedingly costly. and Of
Its boasted productiveness there is not the
smallest trace. Nothing concludes the
writer, has yet been decided as to the pro-
posed expedition against the khalifa, but
he Is of the opinion that with the out
break of the war in the Transvaal thA
British troops in Egypt will be required
for the defense of that country and the
expedition, therefore, will not take place.
1t is a gruesome thing TO think Of but
1t shows how the government takes care
of its soldiers to the last, saws the Wash
lhStoh correspondence of the Philadelphia
Ledger. There was sent recently on one
OF the numerous transports sailing for
Manila consignment of 900 collins 10
be used in returning sto the mother conn
try the remains of the men who lose their
lives fighting the F'lipinos. These baskets
were Oh metal, and they are packed nest
ed, IKE so many tin pans. In Manila
special storehouse is kept for collins
and the boxes that are provided there in
which to place them. No American sol
der who loses his life in the Philiopines
will be buried permanently there. Sooner
or later, when the matter can be reached.
his remains will be brought back home
and buried where his family and loved
ones live. Every provision is maintained
for embafming the dead, and all the de-
tails In regard to the return to this coun-
try of the dead are looked after with
the precision that marks all military bust
ness. Where men die whose homes are
unknown they are buried in the Ameri-
can cemetery in Manila and the graves
suitably marked with all data necessary
for subsequent identification, in case rel
atives make inquiry. Few will lie in the
soil of the Philippines, and it is hoped
that a small part of the governments
provision for the dead may ever be need
ed.
-Dalketh Palace, in Scotland is plain
building, but it has a fine situation, with
a good bowling green and a beautiful
bridge of white stone spanning the Esk
river within sight of the house, says the
Chicago News. The present building, erect
ed in 100, stands on the site of the old
castle of Dalkeith, which is alluded to as
far back as $780, when William de era
ham, who had received a grant of lands
from David I, was the occupant In the
fourteenth century the castle, along with
the barony of Dalkeith, passed by mar
riage TO the House Of Douglass In 1902 it
was the scene of much gayety on the oc-
the bride, Princess Margaret was con-
Quoted TO Scotland by the Earl of Sur
rey. For a fortnight the rejoicings were
kept up and the couple, with their follow
ers, then went to Edinburgh to celebrate
the marriage of Holyrood. Sixty years
later the center of attraction at the palace
was Mary Queen of Scots, and il Lad at
other times visits from most of the Kings
of Scotland Queen Victoria. on her first
visit to Scotland in 1872 held her
court at Dalkeith Privileged visitors
TO the palace at Dalketh may view
the apartments she occupied and
also the state drawing room, be-
sides which are usafly pointed out the
apartments of George ", and also OF Gen.
Monk. The grounds extend TO over 1000
acres and there are extensive gardens at
Lugton, formed in 1889, in connection.
THE way in which various literary
storm waves contend and defect each 9TH
er is a matter worthy of brief considera-
ton" says writer in Ainslee's for July.