The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-21


colonies with the object of preventing the
evils caused by the union of white colo
nists with black women was recently pro-
posed an the Reichstag. Mr.. Bebel, the
Social Democrat, however, managed TO
make the plan of an official marriage bu-
reau' SO ridiculous that the government
withdrew the proposal from this years
budget.
Strangers sometimes mildly wonder
what newspapers or sheets of blank paper
are tied on the windows or balconies of
certain houses for" says the Mexican
Herald City Of Mexico). "A sheet of pa
per thus arranged is a sign meaning that
there are rooms to rent in the house on
which il is displayed, and is just as sig
nificant in its import as three golden balls
over a pawnbroker's shop are in other
countries"
Just fifty years ago this spring the
country was wild over the discovery of
gold in California and companies of men
were forming over the whole United
States to start for the new FL Dorado
Some went by Cape Horn, some by Pana-
ma, but most went overland. These in af-
ter days were the forty-niners. Marshall
discovered gold at Suffers Mil In 1913, but
it was not generally believed until Polk
confirmed it in his annual message.
Two hundred men have refused to work
at cleaning Brooklyn streets because they
did not wish TO wear the white wings"
| uniform. They were hired under a new
| system and all Of them are Americans.
They say they will not clean the streets
until the legislature changes the law that
| compelS them to wear the white wings
| eve are men," they say, mot monkeys"
| Great efforts were made to have the
| strikers reconsider their action, but with
| no result.
The residents of Gloucester, Mass, are
to hold a memorial service in the city hall
| in memory of the lost fishermen of Glou-
| cester. Statistics complied by the Glouces-
| ter Relief Association, which provides for
| the families of those who lose their lives
| at sea, show that in the past twenty -five
years no less than 2,413 seafaring men
from the above named port have been
! drowned. Last year the rate of lives lost
at sea was 1913 per 1000 of seafarers; an
| 1897, 81 per 1000.
Yale divinity school students have hit
| upon a novel way for assisting themselves
in paying their expenses through the
theological course. They have opened a
tailoring establishment in one Of the
rooms in West Divinity hall and have
sent out circulars stating that owing to
the fact that they have no rent to pay
they can make a suit of clothes from IS
to $40 more cheaply than ordinary tailor
| ing houses. They state that they guaran-
tee for one year all suits against rips
loose buttons. etc.
Boston congratulates itself on mark
ed decrease in drunkenness during the
last three years. In 1896 there were 20, $50
arrests for this offense. In 1887 the num-
Der declined to 1922, and in 1898 to 16 62S
| The probation system is working well. The
case of a prisoner brought in for drunk
! enness is carefully investigated and, if
| circumstances warrant IL, the offender is
| put on good behavior. The probation Of
| ticer says that often wives come in to re-
port that their homes have been made
pleasant by this regulation.
"A leading New York capitalist, after
visit to the electric power system at
Niagara Falls, does not hesitate to pre-
| dict that in twenty-five years steam DOW
| er will be a thing of the past in this
country, says the New York correspondent
of the Philadelphia Ledger. Ten millions
of dollars have been invested in the sys-
| tenn at Niagara Falls. The scenic beau
| ~ of the falls has not been injured in
| the least while the town is rapidly be-
| coming big manufacturing center AS
| large producer of carpets, Philadelphia
| will be interested to know that a LEADING
| manufacturer of Scotland is preparing to
establish extensive carpet works at Nj
agara Falls, where he has bought large
| plot of land for the purpose
| THE doors of Libby prison." says the
| Chicago Times-Herald, were closed to
the public for the last time Tuesday night.
A salute of twenty-four guns were fired
| from the old cannon in front of the build
| ing by members of the Eighth Regiment
ana the end of one of the most famous
relics of the civil war was marked. The
thousands of relics which have been on
| eXhlDition in the building will be stored
| and within few weeks wreckers will he
| gin demolshing the prison. A huge ex-
| posluon building, larger than Madison
| square Garden, New York, will be buiIt
| by the Coliseum Company on the site of
the present building. 1t is probable that
| the work of wreckng the building will he
done so hastily that it can never again he
| rebuilt" ''A 10
Bishop Rowe (EpiscopaD of Alaska will
not establish a mission where another re-
hslous denomination is already at work
Inc natives among whom we have heen
laborlng,' he says, have responded very
quickly to the appeals of the missiona ries
This response, it would seem. was nartIv
due to the fact that we found them IN
their natural state, utterly shut out fror,
civilization and without the bad HABITS
that are often acquired by contact with
CIVILIZATION, and which are noticea ble
among great many of the coast natives
me white miners, 90 per cent. of whom
ialrly represent our best citizenship. have
been kind and responsive. They do rnncb
| good and, while not very religious. thew
! are exceedingly interested in ali our nrac-
teal Christian work"
Attached TO a glass-sided box seen in a
bird store window, says the New York
SUM- was placard marked Weather
Frogs Within the box, perched on two
long wooden rods, placed Iengthwise If
It and nearer the top than the bottom like
the higher perches in a bird cage. We're a
number of the weather frogs themselves
Some just then were brown and one was
green. They were little tree frogs Of q
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