The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Oregon that in an emergency case ply
stefan can drive across a bridge at a
speed greater than that permitted 10 ord!-
nary traffic.
To add to the number of astonishing
things that are made of paper, Krupp, the
great German manufacturer of caunons
has lately completed a number of paper
held-pieces for the use of the German in
fantry. Their caliber is cendmeters, or
a little less than inches; and the pieces
are so light that a soldier can easily carry
one. But the resistance is greater than
that of a field piece of steel of the same
caliber. It is not expected that these pa
per guns win replace those of steel. They
are intended for use in situations where
the movement of field artillery would be
impracticable. Paper artillery on the field
of battle seems a most extraordinary
thing but it is hardly more so than paper
wheels for carriages or railways appeared
when they were first introduced; or for
that matter, than paper water pals were.
The Juedische Tageblatt calls attention
to the fact that Jews have lived in China
for several thousand years, and the
changes going on - China give hope that
soon their history will become known.
That descendants of Jewish tribes had
found their way 10 China as early as the
TING of the first temple is mentioned by
Isaiah, the prophet. Furthermore, II IS
known that in a Chinese book, published
during the sixth century before Christ, the
history of Noah, the deluge, Abraham,
Moses and Joseph is given. Il is also GER
lain that in 224 3. Q. a number of Jews
emigTated from Persia TO China. But the
first information about the existence of
Jews in China was brought TO Europe in
1917 by p. Gonzano, a missionary. In his
report he said he became acquainted with
a Chinese Jew who had been educated a
a medical school. He was overjONed 70
meet one who believed in God. lie had
rever before heard of Christ and the New
Testament, and because he had never
heard of the new religion, he thought Con
zanO and his companions TO be Jews.
These Jews differ very little in appearance
and customs from the Chinese-who call
them Hoei-Hoel. They have synagogue
at Kai-Foug Flu, built in 1888. II is said
to be constructed after the style of the
temple of Jerusalem, with inscriptions in
Hebrew. In 1868 these Jews were visited
by p A. Martin director Of the school
of foreign languages at Pekin.
Sir W. H. Preece the president of the
London Sanitary Institute, in the course
of his address at the eighteenth annual
congress-, said that the greatest sanitary
engineer the world had ever known was
Moses. The Book of Leviticus was
treaties on hygiene. For 300 years the
world stood still, and only one race fol-
lowed the doctrines and teachings of the
great master. The Christian threw his
tents to the wind-the MOhammedan, to
his great benefit, had continued to practice
some of his great principles to the present
day. The Jew remained faithful, and was
the healthiest and longest-lived type of
humanity. The doctrines of Moses could
be summed up as the objects of sanitation
to-day: % Pure air ~ pure water, 81
pure food, "a pure soil, 90 pure dwellings,
Co pure bodies While the practice of his
preaching made "the days of our years
threescore and ten" there is no reason
now why we should not make the days
of our years five score Moses did not leg
islate for ventilation, for dwellings III
Egypt, as in the East generally, were open
to the heavens. The Israelltes dwelt In
tents, but he showed how to prevent the
pollution of air by the decomposition of
refuse, for ne ordered it to be carried
out within the camp into a clean place
and there be burnt. We were only now
learning to follow Moses lead, for refuse
destruction were quite a modern and up
to-date Invention II was in the regula-
ton of the food supply of the Israelites
that Moses displayed his profound knowl-
edge of hygienic requirements. and it was
by adhering to these regulations 10 the
present day that the Jews lived such
healthy lives.
1t is generally acknowledged, says the
Baltimore Sun, that next to scientific
training nothing more advanced the enor-'
mously increasing commerce of Germany
than the mastery OF the languages of the
people TO whom the Fatherland during the
last twenty-five years has been sending
her mercantile agents. To the Spanish
American countries she dspa cheS men
who know Spanish; to the British colonies
consuls and clerks acquainted with the
English tongue; to China such as are able
to get along in Chinese; to Russia know
ers of the languages and dialects of the
Cars subjects, and so on And yet, one
of GeTmanyS educators recently complain
ed that the state does too little in this
direction, and that the schools still lay
too much stress on and give too much
time TO the study of the dead languages.
The educated German" he says, Ought
TO master English and French as well as
his mother Tongue, for he may at any time
be in a situation where he may derive
profit from their use. No one at home or
abroad will ask him or care for his ability
to read Horace or Sophocles in the orig
inal. The elite of the German mind will
never become estranged from the study
of the classics, whose charm and elevat-
ing influence are too great and manifest
TO be ever neglected But the positive
profit arising therefrom to the world al
large is equal to zero. And, indeed z
hold that Shakespeare alone outweighs
the triad of the Greek tragic poets. and
Buckle both Xenophon and Tacitus. You
may blot out from the consciousness of
civilized humanity the whole classical lit
erature without causing the least gap i'm
our scientific knowledge, but it is impos-
slble 90 efface Adam Smith, Darwin, or
even Noltaire and Rousseau without ire
trievably impairinS our knowledge or in
terrupung the normal development of our
social conditions"
The Scientific American gives the fol-
lowing description of wood-seasoning by
electricity: The effect of electrical treat
ment seems 10 be to expel the sap and
replace it by insoluble matter which will
not purely, and to increase the tenacitv
of the wood and its resistance to vertical
compression. This is said to be the first