The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-13

1t seems the Filipipos at Manila and
Whereabouts bow down to idols. One OF
these Filipino gods was captured by our
forces and - has arrived ia New York
and been placed on exhibition in a Bow
ery shop window. This Idol is a fan
tasticai, carved block of wood Its eyes
are small and squinL The mouth is .arge
and the nose flat and prominent. Its two
hands with palms outward, are raised 20
the hight of the shoulders, as if repell-
ing a foe. The feet are small and turn
outward
1t is believed by a large number of
Missouri people that a great part of the
booty taken by Quantren and his famous
raiders from Lawrence, Kan, in Septem-
Der OF 1863, now lies buried in great
mound $50 feet high in Bates county, Mis-
souri, From time to time searching par
ties have dug great holes in the mound
in search of the plundered treasure, but
none have succeeded in finding anything
Another party of treasure seekers has
now gone to the spot to take up the search,
they claiming to have found documentary
evidence that viii assist them.
Statistics have been taken in France
of the spread of the habit of smoking
and it has been discovered that within the
last year the cigarette, and even, aston
| ishing as it may appear, the pipe have
| found an enormous increase in their fe-
! male votaries. The fashion of smoking
| among women is no longer confined TO the
| secrecy of a private room The Duchess
| de Uzes and the Marchioness de la
Rouchefoucauld now publicly takes Gig
| arctic after dinner, and whatever these
| ladies permit themselves may safely be
! taken as a sign of the highest bon ton.
! The statistics alluded to show that S07,-
100000 cigarettes are yearly consumed in
France.
As I lay stretched on the bank at the
foot of a great maple saw a weasel run
along in the brush fence some distance
away, says a writer In the Popular Science
Monthly. A few seconds later he was
standing on the exposed root of the tree
hardly a yard from my eyes l lay me
| tionless and examined the beautiful crea-
| ture infinitely, till suddenly 1 found my
self staring at the smooth greenish-gray
root Of the maple with no weasel in sight
| Judging from my own experience, l should
say that this is the usual termination of
| any chance observations of either weaS-
els or minks Occasionally they may be
seen to dart into the bushes or behind
some log or projecting bank but much
| more frequently they vanish with a sud
denness that defes the keenest eyesight
| In all probability this vanishing is accom-
! panied by extreme repidity of motion, but
if this is the case then the creature sue
| ceeds in doing something utterly impossi-
BILE to any other warm-blooded animal of
its size. Mice, squirrels and some of the
| smaller birds are all of them swift enough
| at times, but except in the case of the
| humming bird none of them, 1 believe
succeed in accomplishing the result achiev-
ed by the weasels.
The word copper or cop" which is
an abreviation, as applied to a policeman,
originated in New York city, and in an
swer to an inquiry of Robert Wilson
would say, writes W. E. Curtis in the
| Chicago Record, that is arose from the
| fact that members of the original metro
politan police, organized by Mayor Fer
nando Wood in 1857, wore big copper star
| on their breasts, and a large copper
shield bearing the coat-of-arms Of the
city of New York upon their hats In
London the constables or policemen are
known as "peelers' and ''bobbies," be-
cause the constabulary force or metropoli-
tan police was organized by Sir Robert
Qamiliary known as "Bobby') Peel.
| cannot find that there was any specia;
significance in placing a green light over
| the door of a police station, any more than
in placing a red light over the entrance
probably selected without any special rea-
son, In order that the public might easily
| find thest two important institutions.
There use to be an old conumdrum which
| is apropos here, although il was worn
out at the minstrel shows. The interIocu-
tor asked Sambo, who played the bones,
why there was always a green light over
the door of a New York police station, and
the answer was because it is an Irish
Cub house"
THE city of Manchester, England. j"
says a correspondent of the Chicago Rec
ord, which furnishes the most advanced
example of municipal socialism, has made
a new departure by adding manufactures
OF soap, tallow, oil, glue and fertilizer to
its garbage and sewerage department The
city government now owns street car lines.
gas, electric light and water works ice
factories, fifteen markets, baths and pub
lie launderies, slaughterhouses, cemeteries.
cheap lodging houses, technical schools
art galleries and workshops for the manu-
facture and. repair of its vehicles, tools
ana implements. 1t has reclaimed a large
swamp by depositing its street cleanlny
ana the solid matter found in its sewage.
ana Is retaining another by which it is
expected to add several millions of dollars
TO the wealth of the CORPORATION Tho
most novel branch of the city government
is corps of house cleaners, who can he
employed by the occupants of stores. fiat
houses, office rooms, and residences m
overhaul and clean their establishments
as otten as desired. A Manchester woman
VINO desires her house cleaned can teIe-
phone to police headquarters and a gang
OF scrubbers, sweepers, window washers
etc. will be sent at once to take up The
carpets and relay them, and do her snring
mouse cleaning in short order and first
class styles, while she goes to London or
visits friends in the country"
MIR. Joseph L. Hunter, chaplain Of the
Tenth Pennsylvania Infantry. is send;n,
to The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette a Sc
ries of letters from Manila that are of
special interest as showing the views a
clerical observer takes of opera tons that
include considerable amount of slaneb-
ter Mr.. Hunter speaks of the war with
the natives as inevitable" "Thev forced
US" he says, 10 protect our lives ana
the nations honor" And in his orinio,.
the conflict came, not too soon. hnt zoo