The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

land has decided to admit women TO men,
bership on the same conditions as men,
Henry r. SwanZy, one of lreland's most
famous eye surgeons, presided. The vote
stood p for to IA against This IS the
first scientific society in the British en-
pire TO take such a step.
George c. Plat of San Francisco has
formed company to insure against IN
avoidable loss of employment The scheme
provides that the policy holder shall be
paid three-quarters of the amount of his
salary for a month, should that time be
required in which to find a new place.
If the policy holders should be offered
place on trial at less than his former sal
airy the difference is to be made good by
the insurance company The objections
to this new insurance as outlined by prac-
teal insurance men is the absence of sta
tistics on which to make safe computa-
tons of a premium to cover the risk The
condition insured against is also, it is
pointed out too much within the control
of the insured.
"A Sing Sing IN. " dispatch says: A
new field of activity has been opened to
the convicts in Sing Sing prison. They
are to publish a weekly newspaper, ana
the first number will be .distributed among
the men on Saturday The name selected
for the paper is the Star of Hope. 1t Will
consist of four pages. Warden Sage, the
originator of the plan, will be the man.
aging editor and news censor. Sing Sing
prison has an extensive printing estab-
lishment, and the copy from the IN
mates which escapes the blue pencil OF
the warden will be set up by convict print
ers in the shop, and then run off on the
press. Among: the outside contributors
will be Mrs Ballington Booth. she Is
a favorite with the convicts, and mas Or
ganized the Hope League among the men.
The naming of the paper the Star of Hope
was a compliment to her, in recognition
of her work among the prisoners. The
sheet will contain all sorts of news about
the prison. and in way will be the OIL
cial organ of the institution.
Good news, exclaims the London Tele-
graph. The corn microbe has been dis
covered. That does not mean that there
will be no more famines, and that the
peasants of Russia and India need no
longer fear the failure of their crops But
the bacillus who has long tortured man
and made him angry with his bootmaker
has been unmasked. 1t is no good for him
to hide his head under a plaster or the
many unguents which are warranted TO
give relief. He is discovered, ana name
put to him. The Bacillus Diabohcus,
he is called or "Df' for short; and, now
that he has been run to earth, we may eX-
pecr his complete rout. 1t appears, ac-
cordiug to the official organs of the Phar-
macsudcal Society, that the Sherlock
Holmes of the microbe is a monk of the
celebrated monastery of La Trappe, and
he gives elaborate instructions for the
capture and trea tment of the naughty
mite The prescription, before which the
insidious coru-raiser is mown down like
oats, is composed of thirty grammes of
eau benite sterilisee" and thirty drops
of 'laudenham de Sydenham." For the
uninitiated it may be mentioned that eau
benite" in this instance is a solution of
percholride of mercury. Let us hope that
the palmy days of the corn are over The
bacillus diabolicus' had better be very
careful.
A Jewish commercial traveller relates
curious experience he met with during
his trip through Lebanon county, Penn
sylvania, in the Jusdsche Tageblatt: Il
met" he says, "a number of colored men,
women and children who spoke nothing
but German. Before the day was over
met at least fifty colored people who
spoke German. And when it came to
speaking English they were not at all at
their ease. 1 asked how this came about
and was told that years ago the colored
settlers had come up from the South
among the quiet Pennsylvania German
| farmers of the Blue mountain districts
! The colored children grew up on the
| farms, where they worked and heard
nothing but German spoken. Their chill
dren go 20 English schools in winter, but
as quickly as they are out of sight of
| their teacher they begin to talk the Ger4
man dialect and nothing else. These
| Pennsylvania German negroes of whom I
| speak use absolutely nothing but the Ger
man in their ordinary affairs of life. They
| are good farmers, live on Pennsylvania
| German cooking, and have all the habits
and customs of the Germans. In Reading
met smart, intelligent, middle-aged
| colored man, whose name is Solomon Will
! liams, and who belongs to the Jewish
| church. He says he knows only one
other colored Jew, a man named Moses
| Warns, of New York. Both speak Ger
man quite well. Williams parents were
servants in a wealthy family In New
! York"
"A good deal of mystery, says writer
in the Church Gazette is supposed to at
tach 10 the use of the anagram 'ichthys"
(fsh), for Christ by the early Christians.
The idea is said to have been derived from
a passage in the Sibylline books. pro-
totype has been found in the dolphin,
which was a symbol of the rescue of those
in peril on the sea, and figures on Chris
tan tombstones as emblematic of the souls
on their way to eternal bliss. The relig-
ious symbolism of the fish was well known
in antiquity, especially in Egypt, where
the FISH is frequently found in sculpture.
! An AleXandrian Christian, perhaps
brought up in the traditions OF the ale
gorical school, one day by a happy inspi-
ration discovered that the word ''ichthys''
Jesus Christ, Son of God, SAVIOR con-
tanned declaration in brief of the Chris
tan faith. The lieu desprit" was at once
accla lined and adopted by the early be-
levers. 1t was delightful piece of mys-
ticism, a secret password, which bound
the fraternity together Sometimes the
fish is seen by itself, but mostly he APP
pears in conjunction with other figures.
such as an anchor, symbol of hope or a
dove, typifying the departing soul or a
loaf either With or without a basket. in
! alluSiOn to the feeding of the rnultituda