The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-13


man is not to be measured by a cigar box
full of cents.
Army Doctor Barth of Koeslln, Ger
many, has discovered that singing pos
sesses health-giving properties. 1t inten-
sites, he says, the respiratory movements
thus rendering the lungs capable of deal
ings with more air. This increases and
strengthens the action of all the organs
of the body appetite and thirst increase
and the more frequent movements of the
diaphragm and the wall of the abdomen
materially aid digestion.
The announcement is made in Philadel-
phia shipping circles that eighteen Amer
lean clipper ships and one bark have been
chartered within a few days to load sugar
at Honolulu. This means the movement
within the next twelve months of 100000
tons of sugar, all of which will be dis
charged at either Philadelphia or New
York. The charterings of eighteen ships
for this business is unprecedented. Taken
upon the basis of previous freight rate quo
tations it viii bring to the owners of these
ships from 100000 to 100000.
1t is said that the study of German is
increasing in France, while the study OF
English is on the decline. In the Ecole
des Sciences Politiques. in Paris, where
German than English. Many young
Frenchmen are now being sent to Ger
many and Austria instead of to England
to get acquainted with the language of
the victors of 1870 In a Paris lycee 143
students study German TO "a English In
another school the proportion of German
to English is 500 to 1SS. In the Marseilles
gymnasium two-thirds study German, one
third English. 1t is believed here that
this French interest in German will have
a powerful influence in the commerce and
politics of the world in the next genera
ton.
-One of the curious social laws of Peru
forbids women TO attend funerals, and
they do not appear al weddings unless
they are very intimate friends. When a
funeral procession passes through the
streets, says the Chicago Record the cot
fin is carried upon the shoulders of the
pallbearers, who are followed by an empty
hearse drawn by two, four or six horses
according TO the means of the mourners
and their desire for display. All the male
members of the family and friends OF the
deceased follow on foot, with a line of
empty carriages behind them. As long as
they are in the presence of the dead it is
considered a proper and necessary evidence
of respect to walk. After the body has been
committed to the grave those who attend
the funeral are brought home in the car
riages.
The Chicago Advance gives the follow
ing estimate of the direct and collateral
cost of a church carpet The price was
$500, but as the women of the church raised
the money by giving entertainments the
pastors estimate was that when ali the
items OF cost were figured in the carpet
had cost fully $1,000. He reached this as
tonlshing total by estimating the work
worry, nervous strain, bodily WEAKNESS
and heartaches of 100 women; the heroic
efforts of men, women and children TO
eat the things which were to be eaten
and hear. see or buy things which had
been provided to extract money from
them; the colds, feNerS and other ailments
contracted while attending the entertain.
ments, and the consequent doctors bills:
the money spent in other churches. for II
they come to your entertainment You must
so to theirs; and, worst and most COSTLY
of all, the decentralization of the church
and the curtailment of the legitimate Civ
ing which follow in the train Of such meth
DDS OF raising money. But they got their
carpet.
Live stock was called in by the sluv-
Yesant Fishes as an aid TO a cotillon that
rivaled the famous Vanderbilt bail. II had
beeen known that Mrs Fish was prenarin,
some surprise for her guests but what
form 1t was to take was not known Wheo
II came TO the figures for the cotillon which
had originated in the fertile brain of
Worthington Whitehouse, there was
clacking and cooling heard in another room
that more properly belonged to hennerv
or dovecote than a seaside villa. The
guests only slightly arched their eyebrows
and wondered and made remarks in an nm
dertone, and that was all. When the time
came for the presentation of favors Mrs.
F1sh's little joke became apparent and
Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs received a lovely.
fat, squawking duck. Elisha Dyer blush
ed upon receiving a parrot with a vocabu
iary that would shame a sailor and Mrs.
Ogden Mills had to care for a chicken well
behaved enough, but far past the broiling
stage. Other little favors came in the
shape of globes filled with gold fish thai
could not be put conveniently in a coat
tan pocket, or a brace of doves that could
not be carried in a womans purse.