The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-23

Berlin. The length of the line is $3.50 me
terra.
An enterprising Philadelphia restau-
rant proprietor hung out a large back
board sign the other day with the follow
ing announcement: you can't beat oIu.
lucent dinners This sign -YsaoSeyf 70 be
a good drawing card until young man
of humorous turn of mind came along.
The latter, seeing the sign, stopped, and
after scrutinizing it closely, smiled one OF
those smiles which bode no one any good
He waited until none of the employees
were watching, and, taking out his hand
kerchief,. he erased the letter ''b' from the
word beat" The transformation was
complete, and 1t was not until a crowd
had collected that the proprietor of the
restaurant discovered why there was
larger crowd outside than inside.
The Philadelphia Record says: ''The
proud boast. Of Postmaster Diehl of Lans-
dale that he has a record breaking set
of hens, twelve of whom recently laid
fifty-nine eggs in one week, is not to be
allowed to go unchallenged. Charles b.
Hellings, of Church Lane Germantown
who takes great pride in his hennery,
steps forward to say that he has fourteen
hens, ten of them brown LeghOrns and
four just plain common hens which late-
ly laid seventy-one eggs in one week.
aplece, and one to spare. while the aver
age of Postmaster DiehFs birds was one
egg short of five apiece. Conshohocken,
Hammonton, Doylestown and other CEN
ters of this great industry, ore still to be
heard from"
A correspondent of the Boston Trans
script tells of a town in Maine, having
a popuat ton of two. thousand, in which
there are fourteen churches. each organ
| iZation having a meeting house and an
| but one of them supporting (0 regular
| services. These churches, on the average,
| raise little more than $500 year for the
| preacher, and no one gets more than
| $500 and but two approach that figure.
| There are six denomina tons, and three
of these have three churches each in
! town. He tells of another town in Nc
! braske with less than three thousand in"
| habitants that has thirteen churches.
| each with a settled minister, and one of
| those churches received $3.50 a year for
| several years in missionary aid from
| funds raised mostly in the city churches
in the East.
The intrepid insurance agent has in
vaded the sacred precincts of St Mark 5
| Protestant Episcopal Church. says the
| Philadelphia Bulletin. The commercial
| complexion of the newest plan for rails
| ing church funds has aroused considera-
| Bile interest in the most fashionable par
| ish in Philadelphia. To procure money
| for church work Dr. Mortimer, the rector
in conjunction with several members of
| the congregation, has been considering
| a scheme of insuring the lives of a num-
| Der of wealthy communicates for the ben
| eft of the church The plan originated IN
| the resonrceful intellect of a society wo-
| man who elxes out her pin money by
| writing policies among the residents
| of Philadelphias Faubourg st. German.
! 1t was proposed to the heads of St. Marks
! that some of the wealthy supporters of
| the church should insure their lives on
| the endowment plan, and that the church
| should be the beneficiary named in the
| policy. This would give prospective
| fund of coed proportions and would De
i splendid collateral for borrowing purposes
| The members of the church taking out the
| insurance would, of course, pay the an
| nual premiums. AS the policies matured
| the proceeds would be paid over to the
! church. This plan is not entirely new,
| but this is probably the first time that it
has been proposed to a church of the char
| acter and standing of st. Marks.
The northwest, or Kalihari desert,
wind sweeps down over the South African
veldt, says the Fortnightly Review. This
is a most extraordinary wind and seems
to be charged with electricity. 1t is ex-
| tremely dry and is said to have an effect
| upon the mainsprings of watches and upon
highly tempered steel. 1t is a very thirsty
| wind and ticks and laps up every particle
| of moisture. A moist sheet of paper IL
! held up in it, will visibly wrinkle and
| turn up. In such a climate as that of the
| cape ii is very necessary to wear flannel
| and be prepared to meet the extremes of
! night and day tempera ture. 1t is a provok-
| ingly thirsty country, and in spite OF
| temptation, it is well not to drink from
| the stagnant pools and sluggish rivers.
| Bad water Is probably now the cause of
! much dysentery and of many cases of
| enteric fever at the front. The colonists
| do not like drinking direct from the river,
! but scrape a hole in the sand by the
waters edge and led the fluid filter through
| slowly into it. The Kaffir tribes have
very stringent laws against the pollution
| of their rivers and punish most severely
| those who offend against them. In his
| Bechuanaland expedition Sir Charles
| Warren surprised the enemy by his skill
| in sinking arteslan wells in the open veldt
| and keeping his troops supplied with good
| and pure water. For keeping water good
| and tolerably cool the native calabash,
| hung at the saddle is useful. But it is
| well to drink as sparingly as possible in
| the South African climate, and to stay
the craving by adopting some such expe-
dent as chewing orange or lemon peel.
| But 1t is clear that in a South African
| war, and especially in the large "karoos'
! and plains of the interior, both man and
beast depend greatly upon a pure water
supply. This is really one of the great
| military problems.
Native Indian gathereN, intent only
| upon present gain cannot be expected 10
be more thoughtful of the future of a
tree than they are of their own, and they
either cut so deep as to injure the woody
| hber OF the tree or not heal, says Modern
| Mexico. 1t is inadvisable to draw 600
| heavily from the tree, for other reasons
than the direct injury that results from
| the loss of It's lfe-sus aiming fluid Ow-
| ing to the soft nature of the tree a clean
| incision made in it will drain but a COM
| paratively small area before the swelling
| wood closes the wound and stops the
flow In order to drain the trees more
| completely the short-sighted natives do
| not stop at making a cut, but chop out
piece of the bark to prevent the wound
| hlling up. Such an injury soon renders
| the strongest tree a prey to water fer
mentaton, ants and beetles that enter
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