The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-06-13

A young man of Ellsworth, Ne, al
lowed himself 10 be mesmerized by a trav-
cling hypnoust recently aud lay COR TWEEN
ty-four hours asleep in the show window
of one of the principal stores in the city.
For the service he was 10 receive $40.
While he sept the city tax collector fled
the necessary legal cain for the so, and
The sleeper awol1e to find his poll tax
for the past three years paid
"A japanese Contributor" in the Pop
ular Science Monthly says: when
was a young boy, the custom of eating
beef began to spread. AS blood was re-
garded unclean. and also as Japan
had been a strong agricultural country,
there was a deep-rOOted disinclinatiOn 10
eat beef. In this, of course, one had also
to recognize the influence of the vegeta-
rian principle of Buddhism, but to any
body who had ever tasted beef it was so
delicious that he could hardly control
his natural appetite by his religious scru-
pie My father was one of those who
knew its taste, and so now and then we
used to treat ourselves to beef. But
where did We eat it3 We did not eat it
inside the house. We cooked and ate it
in the open air, and in cooking and eat
ing we did not use the ordinary utensils,
but used the special ones kept for the
purpose, Why all these Things? Because
beef was unclean, and We did not like to
spread its uncleanliness into our house
wherein the god shelf is kept and into
our ordinary utensils which might be
used in making offerings 10 the gods
The day when we ate beef my father
did not offer lights to the gods nor say
evening prayers to them. as he did usual
~ for ne knew he was unclesn and could
not approach the gods"
Freedom, the American paper pub
lished in Manila under date of May 90
gives the following account of the cap
ture al a Filipino flag by Sergt Clement
g. Jones of the Tennessee regiment: Zone
of the plucl1iest deeds n this campaign,
so pre-emiuently one of individual pluck
and daring, was that of Sergt. Clement c.
Jones of the Third Battalion Tennessee
regiment. The sight of a Filipino stand
ard within 500 yards of The Tennessee out
posts, near Jaro, grated upon the SER
geants sense Of propriety, and he deter
mined to capture that Haunting emblem.
So he slipped between the outpost and
crossed the river into the enemy's coun-
Try Incredible as it appears, he crossed
unframed a large tract of open rice fields
in fun view of the natives. When he ar
rived within grasping distance of the
flag, he made a grab for it. simply stupe-
flying for the time the Filipinos, who We're
scared by his sudden appariton He up
rooted the flag and staff, and with them
on his shoulder he started to return to the
outpost his back all the time a target
for scores of Mauser bullets, which the
natives sent after him as parting salutes
Unscathed he waded the river, and only
knocked out by the glarng sun, he ar
rived with his trophy, which now adorns
the First Tennessee barracks"
Keep cool and keep clean" is the
very excellent advice which the Calves
ton News gives to the people and espe-
cially to the officials of Texas in an arti-
Gle protesting against the hasty adoption
of quarantine precautions against yellow
fever The News regards the appearance
at New Orleans of a single case of the
disease as an inadequate excuse for in
terrupting the commerce of the state and
for filing its cities with panic fear 1t
is indeed strange that so soon after Cen
Woods conclusive demonstration in San
tiago that no quarantine is necessary
where municipal cleanliness exists, and so
soon after Havana has supplied evidence
in the same line almost as significant. the
health authorities of Texas should have
resorted at the first sign of danger to
than the malady against which it was
long ago proved to be a most untrust-
worthy defense. Armed guards posted
along railways and highways may keep
out yellow fever for a while but sooner
or later 1t always breaks through the cor
don if the conditions within are such as
to suit it, But where sewers are wen
built streets and houses clean, and the
habits of the people based on sanitary
principles, infection has no chance to
spread even If it arrives, and business.
Whlch Is the life of communities, is not
subjected 10 disastrous Interruptions.
Perhaps the most interesting scheme
for the recovery of waste silver at the
local mint is that applied to the utensils
OF the melting gang, says the New Or
leans Times-Democrat. The big iron stir
ring rods, the dippers, the strainers and
the ladies' that come in contact with the
molten metal are laid aside at intervals
and sent downstairs They are covered
with what looks like brown rust hut is
really oXidized silver Suppose. to digress
moment one desired to get a coat of
paint OH OF the outside of a house. In
such event the plan of scrapiug away the
house and leaving the shell of paint stand
ing would be regarded as somewhat co
centric, yet that is substantially the meth-
90 adopted at the mint. The implements
are placed in bath of sulphuric acio
which attacks the iron or steel but leaves
the silver untouched. Little by LITTLE a
stralner for instance, will entirely disap
pear Ihat is TO say, the original strainer
disappears and leaves in its place hoI-
low silver counterpart delicate as an
egg she'll They are very curious these
fragile casts Their surface is a SORT of
natural filagree, honeycombed with INN
merable fantastic perforations. The re-
production of bolt or screw is oftentirnes
as perfect as an electrotype. but they are
hurried reqorselessly back to the crjeible
and thus pursue their cycle until ar last
they ind their Karma in minted coin
In the German army many ROYAL wo-
men hold military rank as colonies The
Empress Augusta Victoria, Williams con
sort, is the commander of regiment of
cuirassiers, and often in her canacit,, &c
colonel she rides at the head of her troo-,S
and salutes the Emperor as She nasees
him. Her uniform is white with red foc1
lngs, and she wears the scarf &c ~, -