The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-08-20

"A peculiar result of the American
conquest and rule in the Philippines is
the exodus of a large number of the
better class of Filipinos to Japan. 1t
is reported from Yokohama that the
number of these emigrants, or exiles,
from the Philippine Islands is increas-
ing daily, and it is thought that thou
sands of the educated classes in the
archipelago will permanently settle in
the Japanese empire. Most of the Fill
pinos who have gone to Japan have at
once taken up the task of learning
Japanese and of availing themselves of
every opportunity of industrial train
ing.
AS result of the Japanese Budd-
hist mission to this country instituted
year or so ago, church called the
'Dharma-Shangha of Buddha" has
been established in San Francisco, with
three branches in other California
towns. In the San Francisco temple
there is a membership of 800 in the
Young Mems Buddhist Association,
mostly of Japanese. At an English
service on Sundays, twenty or more
Americans are present, of whom eleven
have already been converted to Budd-
hism, and have openly profesSed that
they take their refuge in Buddha, in
his gospel and in his order"
According to dispatch in the New
York Sun, Paris physician has elab-
GRATED an ingenious process for in
creasing the hight of his patients by
daily operating on the joints of the
ankles and knees with an electric bulb.
He says that the osseous matter at the
sections of the joints will thereby be
expanded and the growth of the bones
stimulated. The bulb is also to be ap-
piled to the spine. The doctor says he
can prove by successes obtained on
patients who have already been length
ened that he can add two-fifths of an
inch a month during six months oper-
ating. After six months the continual
treatment is stopped temporarily and
is resumed later if necessary. The pa
tients should be young and supple. 9TH
erwise the effects of stretching their
joints might be grave"
"A curious discovery has recently
been made at Meyerling, one which
shows again the infinite grief of the
late Empress Elizabeth for her ILL
fated son, Prince Rudolf. 1t is a mag
nificent monument of Carrara, which
has been built in the garden of the
castle. On one face is a marble me-
quisite beauty cit is a portrait of the
Empress herself in her YOUTH crown
ing the head of the Prince with
wreath of laurels. 1t seems that the
Empress ordered the monument three
years ago from an italian sculptor Of
Bologna. The monument is surround
ed by rose trees brought from the late
Empress palace at Corfu. The exist
ence of the monument has remained
IN Inn co. -
about two years ago-because Meyer
ling is closed to the public, and no
one but a few servants ever gets in
side of its grounds.
AS is generally known, lady visit
ors to the English House of Commons
are crowded by themselves into one
little gallery that holds about fifty
Here they can see after a manner, but
cannot be seen by the wrangling legis-
lators' beneath. This practical exclu-
sion from the premises is really a COM
pliment to the sex, for it is an admis-
sion that their very presence is not
without influence on the minds of the
peoples representatives, and that their
Judgment must not be swayed by the
power of beauty. One source of infor-
nation has it that formerly no such
restrictions were imposed, but that an
days of representation there rushing
to receive the congratulations of his
wife after an eloquent effort, embrace
ing the wrong woman. The more prob
able story, however is that having
taken some familiarities with parlia-
mentary decorum, the ladies were BAN
ished to their present grating-hid exile.
The great heat experienced in Cen
trail Europe during the present summer
seems to have had a curious effect on
the snakes. In more than one locality
the reptiles have forsaken the higher
attitudes for the lowlands. and have
appeared in such numbers that repres-
sive measures have had to be taken
and bounties offered for their repres-
sion. From the suburbs of Vienna
several fatal accidents, mostly to chill
dren, have been reported, while a SIM
liar state of affairs in Southern Switz-
erland has called for a bounty of %
cents a head on the reptiles killed.
Some idea of the plague in the canton
of Vaud can be gathered from the fact
that one peasant woman has earned
the bounty on no less than 1000 rep
tiles. The great increase in SwitZer-
land is ascribed by one expert to the
indiscriminate slaughter of all kinds
of birds which is going on every year
fronting the American people, but as
yet no one seems to have noticed any
material increase in the reptilian or
der.
There is a legend of the Parlia-
ment House in Edinburgh, which illus
trates one style of prayer, says the
Christian Endeavor World. A shep-
herd from the Scottish border was at
the bar, who, being without means
to engage counsel. had to plead his
own cause. A heavy accusation was
suspended over his head, and a clever
lawyer had wound round and round
him the intricate meshes of the law.
Before beginning to plead. he asked
the judge if he might engage in prayer.
The strange request being allowed, he
closed his eyes, clasped his hands, and
asked the divine guidance in what he
was about to do. Then. without open
ing his eyes or altering his attitude.
he went on to pray his way right
through the case, unraveling it's intri-
cacies and exposing the simple truth;
and in this way he proved his inno-
cence so completely that the verdict
was given without hesitation in his
favor. That man had been accustom-