The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-15

tlie els mn out. LIlC ice tlltItlSS TIC
pupil to the use of all books needed in
his grade.
-CHnker from the refuse Instructors at
Bradford England which in 1891 cost
nearly 5000 for carting and dumping, is
now turned to profitable purpose in mortar
and concrete making. Ground and mixed
with cement, it has been found to give
excellent results for the formation of
reservoirs and inverts. During the win
ter months screened clinker has found
favor for sprinkling on roads made slip
perry by the frost.
in Prussia the Meteorological institute
is about to arrange for the systematic ex-
animation of the aeronautical obserVa-
tory at Tagel near Berlin. Kites and bal
looms will be employed at heights from
8, 900 to 5000 meters 10 ascertain the at
mospheric conditions. The registering APP
paratus is taken up by a kite-bahoon an
f1ated with hydrogen, and can lift 500 me
tiers of wire. To it second kite is at
tached and to this latter a third and so
on until the balloon reaches a height of
1900 or more meters
Nome City, the new mining town on
the Alaskan coast, already has a news
paper-a 4-page sheet which measures
about twelve by sixteen inches, but which
sells at so cents a copy. The new jour
nal styles itself the Nome Gold Digger,
and IDS first issue contains some interest
ind advertisements The bill of fare of
the principal restaurant includes tender
lon steak at 50; reindeer stake, 81; ptar-
migan, s. boiled mackerel, $1.5O; coffee
and doughnutS, 80 cents; corn beef hash,
81; sausage, $3.50; fried ham, 81; salmon,
81; three eggs, 81; loaf of bread, % cents;
toasted cheese, 81. Two-story seven-room
dwellings are advertised for rent at $500
per month; wagons and teams for hauling
are hired out at so per hour; shave
costs 81, and a hair cut. $3.50.
There is now on exhibition in London
an employees checking clock in addition,
takes a picture of the employe, says the
Railway and Engineering Review. The
appara tus resembles a somewhat bulky
camera with large lens aperture in front
and button TO be pressed just below the
opening. Inside the box is a clock and a
sensitiZed ribbon. The idea is that the in
strument should be placed in a suitable
position near the employees entrance and
that on his arrival and departure each
man should stand in front of it and press
the button. The result is that a tiny pho
tograph of the clock is taken on the rib
bon of celluloid of the employe who Is
registered. 1t is claimed that forty at
tendances per minute are easily recorded.
The records can be taken out once a week
and can be made ready for checking at
tendance by an office boy in a short time.
This seems, however, a clumsy method OF
keeping time.
In the London Methodist Times Rev
Hugh Price Hughes makes some interest
ing revelations concerning the conduct of
the Beers toward the burghers who are
killed on the battlefield. He says: I'VE
have casually become acquainted with a
Boer lady now in London whose sym
pathieS are, of course, with her own race.
But she is very discriminating and very
candid. In the first place, she earnestly
sought permission from her own govern
ment TO return at once TO the TranSVaal
in the capacity of a nurse; but they, not
unnaturally, are unwilling now to be re-
sponsible for the maintenance of any one
who can not fight In the second place
this highly intelligent and cultivated lady
informed us that she had no idea whether
her husband and other relatives were
alive or dead. She says that il has ALWAYS
been President Krugers policy to con-
ceal from his own country, as well as from
the world a large, all facts with respect
to Boer losses. Whenever a Boer dies in
battle his body is weighted and thrown
to the bottom of river. or in some other
way concealed as quickly as possible
No information of any kind is ever given
to the relatives of the deceased! They
never know what has become of him, and
all they can do is to assume that he is
dead 1t is a curious custom, the exact
opposite of our own. We make no at
tempt to conceal the exact details of our
losses. This custom throws a food of
light upon the statements constantly re-
ceived from Boer sources with respect to
the small losses they have endured. The
lady with whom we had a converse ton
fears that the losses of her country are
very great"
Under the heading of Honesty as a
Policy one of the convict contributors to
the Star of Hope, the paper published in
Sing Sing prison, compares the respective
earnings of the unskilled laborer and the
skilled burglar, and from the statistics
he has complexion invented-draWs the
astonishing deduction that crime, even
when regarded quite apart from morality,
is miserably poor business The writer
whose signature is. Auburn, %, 5S4" first
presents-from imagination, obviously-the
picture OF an honest toiler earning 81 a
day saving $500 a year above all expenses.
Investing his money in a farm, and living
happily and comfortably ever after When
one remembers the number of honest toll
ers who accomplish none of these things.
the impulse to pass on hastily to what
Auburn, 255S4," has TO say about bur-
glars is very strong He declares that
burglaries. taking them by and large.
bring IN from SO to $40 apiece, and the
most Industrious operator cannot hope
TO do more than one job week If he
keeps out of jail for a year. therefore
the products of his activity may amount
to $1,000. But his necessary expenses are
enormous. The expert says on this point:
He must at least keep two places OF
abode, must be well dressed and musr
keep himself well informed as 20 the do
ings of his victims. These are incidentals
that viii amount TO al least 800 per year
Let us say his clothing comes to 500 his
board and lodging to $500, ana at the end
of the year he is arrested with 500 i'm his
pockets. To get a good lawyer he paws $40
and is extremely fortunate IL he gets OF
with five years. during which time ne
earns $3.50 per annum, and when he leaves
the prison he is a marked man" That.
certainly would tend to make a vounp
man think twice before adopting burglary
as a profession-would, that is. if anv
young man by any possibility could think