The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-01-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Ex-President Cleveland. ex-senator
Hill and other prominent Democrats
will be invited.
Right Rev. Charles H. Brent, Epis-
copal Bishop of the Philippines, has
bid farewell to st. Stephens Church,
Boston, and from now until he starts
for his new field, which will be April s.,
he will devote his time to speaking be-
fore prominent Episcopal churches
throughout the country.
The memorial tablet to Sir Walter
Besant, which is to be placed in the
crypt of st. Paurs. will be set next
to that which commentaries Charles
Reade. The memory of r. d. Black
more, the author of Lorna Doone," is
to he honored by the placing of a
marble slab upon the wall of Exeter
dalton portrait and simple inscrip-
ton, and will cost 2300.
Ever since his wife died, year
ago, Joshua Lamoreaux, a farmer liv-
ing near Ceases Mills, Pa, has eaten
his meals at her grave, half a mile
from his home. One desperately cold
cay last week he was found uncon-
scious there, partly frozen and almost
dead from exposure. He is so years old
and in all their sixty years of married
life he and his wife had never been
apart longer than half a day.
An unforeseen aid in the temper
ance cause, and one that should be
used more, says a medical publication,
is the exclusion of drinking men from
the service of railroads and large man.
ufacturng companies. Another, and
one perhaps equally powerful, should
be discrimination by insurance COM
panies against the drinker. Hereto
fore our American companies have
made no distinction in rates, but Eng
lish companies make better rates to
abstainers, as statistics show that they
have an advantage of at least 20 per
cent. in expectancy of life. The abb
stainer should certainly have a CORE
spending preference in rate, and not
be forced to pay part of the pre-
miums of the reckless drinker. The
medical examiner deservedly has great
influence in insurance companies, and
should urge upon them the method
suggested, in the interests of both of
his company and of social progress.
"A London dispatch says; King Ed
ward is visiting the Earl and, Count
ess Howe, Mr.. and Mrs. George KEEP
pei are among the party. The Countess
Howe is an aunt of the Duke of MARI
borough, and her sister, Lady Sarah
Wilson, who went through the siege
of Mafeking, is also of the company
The presence of the Sovereign causes
very rigid form of. etiquette to pre-
vail, the house becoming, for the time
being, the property of the monarch, all
its servants and appurtenances being
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are relegated to the position of visi-
tors. and are invited to dinner by the
King. If the Queen Consort is present
the hostess acts as lady-in- waiting
leaving the dining room Immediately
behind her royal visitor and before all
the other guests. Nothing is handed TO
the Sovereign by a servant. That office
is performed by the host and hostess
AS a rule the King only shares dinner
with his host and hostess, partaking
of breakfast and luncheon in his own
apartments.
Trustworthy rports from Manila
depict it as a kind of moral paradise,
nearly all the original sin having been
washed out of it by the American oc-
cupation, says the New York Tribune
The Rev. Mr.. Hazlett a Colorado
Methodist preacher, sent out by the
Secretary of War, at the request of
Gen. Macarthur, to examine and report
upon social conditions there, says that
the city is the best governed of any
he ever saw-superior he thinks, ''to
any in the United States to-day"
There are only few "drunks'-just
enough to keep alive prohibition activ-
ity. Where there used to be 400 saloons
on the Escolta, the Manila Bowery,
there is not now one. The whole num-
Der in the city is diminished to 100,
and these are under rigid regulations
the Sunday side door not being the
freely yielding portal it is here. On
the whole. the preachers report is
most gratifying and encouraging, and
goes to show that the people there are
capable of social improvement, and
embrace the methods of leading to it,
when offered, with entire readiness and
good will.
What is this feel of the road 10
which the railway men testifying in the
tunnel accident investigation refer so
often? asks the New York Times. To
them, apparently, it is something at
once real and familiar-something that
gives them information quite apart
from the regular signals and yet both
trustworthy and trusted. One engineer
said that he would not take a passen-
ger train through the tunnel until he
had made the passage an unmentioned
number of times with the responsible
ity for safety resting upon somebody
else, but with 1.-The feel of the road"
once acquired, he would apparently
have little fear, however thick the
smoke. steam and fog might be. So far
as a layman can guess at the mystic
riOuS phrase. il hints that after an on
gineer has passed over given piece of
track repeatedly, it's minute irregulari-
ties, consciously or unconsciously no.
ticed. inform him of his position, even
when he can see no signals, but MEM
DRY of the strange powers credited by
Mr.. Clemens to the old-time pilots on
the Mississippi hints that here may
be something more to "the feel of the
road than the Interpretation of slight
jars and lurches. OF course, the prob
lem thus presented is less difficult, and
therefore less interesting, than the one
to be found when a great manufac-
turer of electrical apparatus condemns
the use of electricity for traction pur-
poses. but still 1t has it's charms, and
the lovers of the mystical ought to get
to work.
"A terrible revelation was made to
the Royal Society recently by George
II. r. Nuttall. M. A, M. d., Phi. ID.
Cambridge, says the London Tele-
graph. 1t was no less than demon
stration. in the opinion of that gentle
man, of the blood relationship of mon
keys and men. The terms are to be
taken literally, for the test is one APP
piled to the blood. and the result is
reached by the injection of certain