The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-05

she would kill and eat it, To their as
constituent puss did nothing of the kind;
she adopted it and reared il with her own
| offspring. Both the ra bbit and its foster
mother seemed to be perfectly happy to-
gether
BY gargling in the usual way only the
upper anterior surface of the uvula and
| soft palate and base of the tongue are
reached, says the Medical Record. The
method of holding the nose and throwing
The head well back when gargling enables
the fluid TO reach every surface of the
pharynX. The value of the two methods
can readily be tested by painting the pos
terror wall Of the pharynX with a strong
solution OF methylene blue. After garg-
ling with water in the usual way, the lat
Ter will be perfectly clear and unstained;
then let the patient gargle again by the
method suggested. and the elected fluid
will be found stained.
The rural teleph-ne service says the
Electrical World, sis said to BE- far ad-
vanced in Northeastern Ohio, and pa ticu-
iardy in Geauga comfy, which is st ic ly
an agricultural county Not on Y IS there
an Office in every townshp, but humid eds
Of farm rs have telephones in their hon es
one OF the cCm AM N the G. unity nane1
is strictly a farmers mpany, it be ng
operated by eight farmers, who own every
| thing from fir nchiSe - switchboard. The
| prin airy object in cons rucing tha lines
was not to but d them for an investment
but as a help in the transac ion # bus mess
and to give he fam lies some of the social
| privileges hat are too often lacking on tie
| farm"
DIR. John Fox says in Leslie's Weekly:
| THE Zulu Bible, published by the Ameri-
can Bible Society, is a factor in South At
| rican affairs larger and more influential
] than pOnSUipnOnS in intar0a-
| tional politics. Whatever happens in the
| Transvaal, it will not cease to do its silent
work. On the West Coast of Africa Bible
| translation has been proceeding for half
| century and the sheets of the Benga
| Bible, Ineligible not only to the tribe,
0ut to cluster of rude tribes dwelling on
that far-of coast, have been passing
through the press of the society in New
York, and, when finished sent on their
voyage TO the Gaboon and Corsica Mis-
| sion"
| -Theaters and places of amusement in
London are deeply affected by the war,
and few people are having country house
parties. There will be few country balls
! this year; indeed the writer is sure to be
a very quiet one, for nearly every one
| knows has a near relation out in Africa.
| Peers on the stage have been commoner
in history than peers in the editors room,
| but Lady Randolph Churchill whose Sec
ond number of the Anglo-Saxon has just
successfully come out, has had illustriOus
| predecessors. Julius Caesar was an edit
| or, aDd he was his own war correspondent
| also, thus doing away with a press CEN
| sor. King Alfred whose millennium will
| soon be celebrated, was a contributor to
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, journal of
| wide circulation, but now defunct, and
never had his manuscripts rejected.
There is nothing so good for human
| ity," said Senator Stewart of Nevada to
| the Washington Post, "as an occasional
war. Nan is by nature a fighting ami
| NAL, and when he remains too long in a
| state of peace he deteroates. This holds
| good with nations, for let any country alb
stain for a long period from conflict aud
| its citizens become effeminate. Peace So
| cieties mean well, but they show a sad
| lack of knowledge of human nature as
| well as of history. Wars are necessary
| to arouse mankind from the lethargy and
| sloth of long protracted peace, and wars
| will continue as long as the human race
| exists Our war with Spain was a good
| thing for us, and the present war in the
| Philippines is to be commended. War
| means expansion, and a nation that does
not expand is marked for decay. If we
listen to the so-called anti-imperialists,
| dry rot is our DOOM"
Big guns now being put in place for
the protection of the sea coast cost a large
sum. Some interesting figures on this sub
| ject have just been submitted to Gen. Will
| son and will be sent by him to Congress,
says the Scientific American. With it's
| disappearing carriage tWelve-inch
| Oreech-loading rifle costs $141 900; a ten
| incn, $99, $50, and eight-inch, $72, 600 Mod
| ern high-powered guns cost an immense
sum of money, and the cost of firing
| them is proportonately as great. The
| report of experts who have inspected these
| guns and the devices for firing them and
| securing an accurate aim show that there
| is an immense saving effected by having
| modern range and position finding appa-
| ratus. One of the reports made by an ex-
| pert stated that the demoralizing effect of
| Il hit as compared to a miss cannot be re-
| duced to a money value, but il costs big
| money to shoot a big gun and then miss
the mark. Take, for instance, a twelve
inch gun To miss the mark is simply to
| throw away $561.70. With the ten-inch
| gun the loss is 1922. 40, and with the eight
| inch rifle it is $l64.65.
| Mr.. Madden, the fourth assistant post
master general in his annual report tells
| how country postmasters sometimes in
| crease their compensation, which is regu-
| lated by the number of stamps that are
sold and Cancelled in their Offices Many
| postmasttrs who are merchants arrange
| with the Whof ale dealers with whom
| they buy goods to send as much as poss -
| bic by mail as fourth-class mater. The
| wholesale merchant puts a single 2-cent
stamp upon a package, and when it ar
rives at its destination the mel chant post
| master adds a sufficient number Of post
| age-due stamps to cover the defc ency
y hich may run into dollars in month.
| Z han he edi s himself wi h t e comm. s
son on their eanceEati,n und, he ex ST.
ing rules for the regulation of compen a
| don of p0Stma sterS of the fourth class
| AR. Madd n says there is no way to pre-
vent this pi actice except by repeating the
law which allows underpaid packages 10
| De forwarded. For a similar reas the
fourth-class postoffioe at Chicago Ridge,
| H., was recently discontinued.
According to the report of the COM
missioner of Indian affairs there are o.. 2o2