The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-25

thinks that the English use of the capital
1 is one of the most curious features o.
the language. He calls attention to the
fact that "a Frenchman referring to him
self writes lie with a small j.; German,
though he may crafty all his substanta-
tives with capital letters. employs small
1 in wiling "ich,' Spaniard, when he us.s
the personal pronCun At all, bSstows a
small on his 20" while he honors the
person he addresses with a capital ""
The English r. strikes Zola as beir g veyy
arrogant.
The enormous prices paid for the pin
ming on of orchids and button holes at
the Charing Cross Bazaar, In London-in
several cases IS having been demanded
and given-recalls the cantankerous ac-
ton of an elderly gentleman at a bazar
given some years ago. when the Pro
fessional Beauty was first known by that
term. One of these, before serving the
elderly gentleman with a cup of tea, told
him the price, which he paid; and then,
after taking a sip herself, added: "And
a guinea for that" There's your
guinea" said the gentleman, land now
give me a clean cup
"A resident of East Dulwich, England,
recently purchased at local auction for
few shillings a lot of old books, among
which was a family Bible On the sue
ceeding Sunday evening his wife, while
reading in the good book, discovered that
several pages were pasted together, and
she proceeded to separate them. A pleas
urable surprise awaited her, no fewer
than six IS $500 Bank of England notes
being found secreted between the leaves.
On the back of one of the notes the fol-
lowing extraordinary win was written:
Il have had to work very hard for this,
and having none as natural heirs l leave
thee, dear reader, whatsoever shall own
this holy book my lawful heir. June II,
1870 Southend, Essex"
Quite apart from the great Siberian
Railroad, the longest in the world, there
are some railroad tips in Europe Of
length by no means despicable, even to an
American, says an exchange. The Orient
Express, leaving Paris twice a week, goes
to Constantinople by way of Munich, Vi
emma, Budapest, Belgrade and Sofia, cover
ing 1921 miles in sxty-four and one-halr
hours a speed of nearly thirty miles an
hour. You may go from London to Con-
stantinople via Ostend, Vienna and Cos
tanza, 2,052 miles, in seventy-three ana one
half hours. Between ST. Petersburg and
Ostend, 1,597 miles, the time Is forty-three
hours, and London is six hours further
off. The summer trains from st. Peters
burg to Cannes, via Vienna, traverse /, GIG
sula express, from Calais to Brindisi, gets
over 1853 miles in 1872 hours. These runs
would be fair in the United States, but
not remarkable.
The successful use of homing pigeons
in bringing news from the beleaguered
garrison at Ladysmith shows that wireless
biography, useful as it may be in war; is
not indispensa bic. An English pigeon ex-
pert has been giving some interesting in
formation in regard to the supply of birds
in South Africa. 1t seems that the pigeons
al Ladysn1ith belonged to the Durham
Pigeon Racing Club, and were brought
from England for purposes of sport,
though some of the more far-sigh ed mem
bers may have had some idea of the pos
sibility of using them in war. The same
authority said that there were 1000 Eng
lish pigeons in johannesburg belonging to
racing pigeon club there, and that ii
these should fall into the hands of the
Beers they might do mischief in the early
stages of the war, as they have been
trained as far south as Cape Colony The
English government took early measures
to organize pigeon posts, and they have
already done signal service.
The cobbler's trade is about the sole
survival of that Independent individualism
in industry which used to prevail so
largely as to make the average workman
his own employer and master says the
Springfield Republican. But machinery IS
threatening this employment also. There
was started in Lynn last week a mact ine
which tears off the WORKOUT sole Of an
old shoe substitutes new one, and puts
II through all fhe processes necessary 10
make a flashed product, with what is de-
SCI bed ds wonderful rdRidiry and excel
lence of workmanship. To be sure it
he To 1tTa1 i've Ind
try of repairing old shoes unless a market
is provided for them and they are thus
collected at the shoe manufacturing CEN
tiers and resold as well as resoled. But
it would require some capital to set up
a shoe-repairing shop of this kind, and
when the necessity for capital comes in
the door is shut against the distribution
Of the work among independent artisans.
The recent marriage of Lieut. Beh-
rens to Miss Rothschild, IN London, point
ed out the liberal appreciation in which
the British army service holds its Jew
ish officers. The two scientific" corps,
the engineers and the artillery, have most
of the names of Jewish officers on their
list, while Col. Goldsmid, one of the most
efficient commanders in the line at the
head of the Welsh regiment, is also a He
brew. Here and there a Jewish Tommy
Atkins is found in the ranks, but they are
few and far between. Every facility, says
the London Sketch, is given them TO at
tend a synagogue when there is one with
in reach. There are not many synagogues
in country quarters. and occasionally a
Christian private has professed to be
Jew in order to escape church parade. One
of these malingsrers came up before colo
mel of the old-fashioned sort to announce
his change of religion. "H'mr said the
colonel, you are Jew now, are you?"
and the man assented. There is no SYM
agogue nearer than London?" And the
man said contentedly that such was the
case. We'll" the colonel went on, Il am
sorry for that. The Queens regulations
lay down that her soldiers must attend
some place of worship. You shall have
your choice. You shall go either with the
Methodists at a. m, or with the Catho-
lies al II or to the Church of England in
the afternoon" 1t only took one Sunday
to reconvert that private
There met in Washington Saturday
evening, says the New York Times soma