The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-02-04

On one side the ink bottle; the other
pepper box covered sand holder, recalling
TO the present generation that blotting
pads were not always in existence, and
that sand was once used TO absorb ink.
On the opposite side of the building is an
other entrance, where egress was had to
the upper story by spiral stairs. The CEN
ter post of this stairway, extending to the
ceiling of the second story, looks like a
braid that had been twisted, broadside
always outward. into a huge cork-screw;
but closer examination shows the heart
and half the outer part of a tree have
been carved away, with what must have
been infinite labor, leaving this spiral
hollow column.
Half the space once devoted to officials
has been partitioned off, and here a school
for small children is in fun blast. During
school hours you couldn't miss It il you
passed within a block. According to Gus
tom, the children study aloud. each seem
ing to be trying to read faster than the
other. No wonder Il is fast talking race!
The methods are so different from ours;
all the corners of the room Will be coca
sionally occupied by little tots who have
missed their lessons or misbehaved The
teacher, a young man. tempts Americans
90 pulp him TOR disorderly conduct, he
storms so al the pupils.
Our boys see strange things sometimes
one of the patrols, a young fellow from
EuSGHeiu county, on coming OF duty YES
terday reported seriously, mysteriously
and wonderingly: Captain. l just saw a
man dressed up In womans clothes and
shoes, and he had on sonnet hing over his
head" Thinking some malefactor or con-
Wet might be attempting to escape, 1 ques-
toned the soldier, ana soon ascertained
from the description of the 'woman's
clothes" that Friar Tuck was abroad.
The ancient cemetery at Playbo. a
short distance from this town, has re-
Gently become a place of great interest to
soldiers. few evenings ago / saw a
Sergeant of the Second South Carolina Vol
unteers coming into camp with a skull In
one hand and a rib bone in another. Or
ders have now been issued excluding SOL
diers from the vicinity. AS I
understand. If the rent for lots
in a cemetery is not paid within
a certain time, the graves are dug
up, bones being thrown out and scattered
around, to make place for new occupants
But they do not wish these bones removed
Under the surface strata of earth there is
a solid rock many feet thinck, and as
grave digging is a slow process they are
dug ahead of the demand, or, rather
blasted out, for they are all blasted They
are made in trenches, six or seven feet
wide; the collins, laid side by side, are only
lightly covered with earth when first in
TERED. When a trench receives dts quota
all the earth is thrown in and the graves
marked.
An instance of the acuteness of Uncle
Sans route agents was shown a day or
Two ago, when letter address to so
and-So. Co. ID. Habana, Cuba" was de-
livered TO the proper person In the
south Carolina regiment Being post
marked Lake City, S. c." the postal
people wisely guessed that it should come
to the Carolina regiment.
l send, under another cover, pods of
open cotton picked from bush thirteen
feet high, growing out of the center of a
cactus hedge in Quemados I suppose the
States readers know all kinds Of flowers
are in fun bloom here; that corn and to-
! bacco, sweet potatoes, "tanyahs" egg
plants, etc, are growing in various stages,
We see the vegetables in every stage ex-
cept the last-on the table