The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-16
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| now spreading in continental Europe;
has recently been deprecated by the
Vatican organ Osservatore Romano
(Rome). The zeal of these democrats,
says the papal newspaper, leads them
too far But the fault is not theirs, ac-
cCrding to the Journal des Debats
(Paris), which asserts that the Vatican
itself gave the movement impetus
Now it proposes to hold the relns,
whereas the youthful steeds it has set
going are fired with Christian democ-
racy. But their cavortings cause con-
fusion in the Catholic camp.
Recent advices from Mombasa, an
| nouncing the completion of the Ugan-
| da Railway as far as Lake Victoria
NyanZa, furnish one more proof of the
rapid way in which the dark continent
is being opened up to commerce. The
work of laying this stretch of 572 miles
of rails has been arduous in the ex-
treme. Not only has the route been
an extremely difficult one on topu-
graphical grounds. but the working
parties have had to reckon with ma
larial feVers of the most Virulent type,
and many young engineer has loss
his life in AN undertaking which VIII
introduce. civilization into a region
populated by at least 100000 natives.
| The work has been completed within
cost of nearly SCI 100000.
Preparations are being made on a
most elaborate scale by the Roman
Catholics of England. in conjunction
with their co-religionists in all parts
of the world, to celebrate the silver
jubilee this year of the Pontificate of
Pope Leo XIII With the approval of
Cardinal Vaughan an International
hapn tn
out the necessary arrangements. and
it has been decided to present the Pope
with a tiara of gold, which will be in
laid with diamonds to the cost of ESQ.,,
600, the gift of an Italian lady The
names of the subscribers to the gift
| viii be inscribed in a costly album for
presentation to the Pope, and as part
of the jubilee celebrations pilgrimages
will be made from different countries
to Rome. The Catholics of England
have already provided a fund for the
purchase of a statue of the Redeemer
which will be blessed by the Pope and
erected in the new cathedral at West
minister.
-Prussia's Pauper Nobility.-The
aristocracy of the leading kingdom OF
Germany can with difficulty keep the
wolf from the door, according to the
| journel sees here an explanation of
much that puzzles foreign observers
| in the present political situation in
| the Kaiser's domain. LAS the great
| development of wealth in Germany
dates only from a generation back. this
nobility, which shares the contempt
| of all nobilities for business, has to
} depend upon public office (not very re-
munerative) or upon the rent of land.
| Elt1t Ind, oil
| mercial world grew rich the country
nobility saw itself decline. Land failed
| to yield sufficient to enable it's owners
! to live in accordance with their rank
! in the German social scale. This fact
| is the origin of the movement to raise
the tariff. There should be no misun-
derstanding in regard to this. The
| German government faces a social
rather than an economic problem. The
Prussian nobility sees in the increase
of the duties upon products of the soil
| the only means of augmenting the rev
| enue from land and of escaping its own
ruin"
"A man cannot rise from a chair
without bending forward, or putting
| his fet under the chair or outside of it.
Many a man will back himself to give
another a start of fifty yards in a race
| Ol lUU, lIONlutu the lndu HdNlHS tllS
start hops all the way. But no run
ner. however SWEET, can give that
| amount of start to an ordinary man.
For the first five yards they go at prac-
! tically the same pace: Therefore the
| runner, to go ninety-fiVe yards while
| the hopper" goes forty-five, would
| have to run more than twice as fast.
and it would be a weak man who could
not hop forty-five yards at a pace
equal to twenty seconds for 100 yards;
| and that would mean that the runner.
| in order to win, would have to beat all
| previous records. IF a man boasts that
| his penknife is particularly sharp, ask
| him to cut with one stroke of the blade
| one of those yellow ribbons, mostly of
! silk, which are around bundles of CT
| gars. In 999 cases out of 1000 the
| knife is not sharp enough to do this.
| 1t will cut through 81 the ribbon but
| the last strand, and hat will pull out
! long, and the more he tries to cut it
| the longer it will pull out. No one
| except a. blind man can stand without
support of any kind for five minutes at
a stretch. if he is thoroughly blind
| folded, without moving his feet. If he
! does not move his feet he is pretty sure
to topple over in. about a minute.
When the fires are commenced in
late autumn you are struck by the
fact that your rooms are very
draughty, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
You sit near the fireplace. take an arm
| chair or place something on the back
| of an ordinary chair, to keep the
draught from your back and place
your feet on the fender because they
get so cold You complain of being
roasted in front and frozen at the
back. If you wish to keep really warm
where there is a good fire you must
seat yourself at some little distance
from it-preferably in a position where
you are out of the direct line from
the door or window to the fire. The
heat of the blazing coal draws the cold
air toward il and up the chimney and
thus makes you SILVER You may
easily catch cold in that way. The
laws that govern ventilation and
smoky chimneys are hard to under
stand A room that is warm with a
fire at one end and has a blocked CHM
ney at the other will become cold and
draughty as soon as you light a fire
at the other end. and most probably
one chimney will smoke when both
fires are lighted although neither
chimney smokes when the fire is only
lighted in that CRATE which 1t serves.
Again the draught will differ ac-
cording as the sun does or does not
shine into the room.
No engaged girls need apply is
the latest phase of the nursing pro-
fession, according to the London Tele-
graph. Doctors and matrons have been
discussing the subject and have come