The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-11

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views, acquaints them with subject
for, discussion, and seats them in the
centre of the room. The guests crowd
around at a respectful distance, and
assist at the fight with many marks
of announcement.
--Erythrea has now entered into the
sphere of interest of archaeology
Signor CONT Rossini, an italian eX-
plorer, in some excavations on the
right bank of the Barca has discovered
an engraved rock, almost covered with
carvings of CRATES, camels, horses
and serpents. There are also inscrlp-
tions in the ancient Ethiopic char
acter without vowels, making refer
ence to the tribe of Kasons, of the
period of the kingdom of Meroc.
An interesting prisoner left the Jail
of Szegedin, Hungary, the other day,
after having served first two and then
three years He is a Nazarepe, Sava
Maletity, by name, who six years
ago was enrolled for military service.
Being a devout believer in the doc
trines of Nazarene faith, which prohib-
its the shedding of blood, he stead
lastly refused to shoulder a rifle. He
was sentenced to two years impris-
onment, was enrolled when the time
was up with the same result, year
being added to the sentence. He de-
clares that he will not swerve from
his determination not to touch a rifle,
even if he has to undergo a life i'm
prisonment.
The long spell of fine weather
which England has recently been en-
joying means money in the pockets of
the farmer who has large amount Of
hay to gather. The continuous sun
shine has brought the crop to a high
state of perfection, and thousands Of
farm hands are working hard to get in
the luxuriant crops. This year the
field of hay may reach two tons per
acre. Last year the yield throughout
Great Britain exceeded the enormous
total of 10000, 900, and this year prom
ises, so far to give even finer results.
Reckoning that 60 per cent of the
crop is consumed on the farm. and
taking hay at $40 per ton, the COM
mercial value of the proportion sold
works out at the colossal figure of
$S0,000,000.
No man living. perhaps, can pro-
nounce the English language Alright,
at all times and in all places, asserts
the London Chronicle. For correct
ness depends largely on time and place,
be wrong. AS soon as you step on
shipboard and. sail, the horizon, being
clear and definite, sheds the need for
a long 81" and at sea it rhymes with
''orison." In the army route is al
ways called a ''rowte," being the only
kind of rout the British army ac-
knOwledges. Moreover, the cavalry,
by long-standing tradition, calls horse
an 'orse," and the order is stand to
,uf
find it little difficult to recover the
aspirate when he exchanges the camp
for the drawing room.
Reports have been received stating
that the Ottoman government has
bought the English concession for a
railroad from Haifa to Damascus.
This railroad, a narrow gauge line,
will extend through Galilee to Mzerib,
by way of Beisan, connecting at ME-
rib with the Damascus-Me line. At
the beginning of April last five Ger
man civil engineers, employed by the
Turkish government, arrived at Haifa,
and a monument was unveiled in COM
memoratfon of the start of the opera
tons. In the middle of April the
Damascus-Mecca line had reached a
point east of the Dead Sea, and the
consul believed that instead of going
to the Hejjaz. including Medina and
Mecca, it would take a southwesterly
direction to the Gulf of Akaba, in the
Red Sea-
Adrian w, the only Englishman
ever attaining to the rank of Roman
Pontiff, was born at Abbotts Langley,
a parish now on the London and
Northwestern Railway, as it runs Just
beyond Watford to the north, says the
Westminster Gazette. His father, a
mental servant at st. Adams Monas-
terry, got his boy admitted to the char
ity school conducted by the monks,
but he made little progress in his
studies and was "plucked" when he
applied for holy orders. But the
neophyte worked his passage on a
boat to the French coast entered O.
Paris monastery, and became bishop
and cardinal. He was elected Pope in
1854, under the title of Adrian w. He
proved "a harbitrary old gent" ac-
cording to accounts and left his moth
er to live on the charity of the Chap
ter of Canterbury.
Two well-known aristocratic wom-
en- from Vienna, staying at Evian-les-
Bains, had an argument as to whether
or no a woman who fell into the water
in full walking costume would be aid
ed or impeded by her clothes, writes
the London Express Geneva cores
pondent. Argument soon led to dis
pute, and dispute to wager, with the
result that the two ladies, in smart
summer frocks, lace petticoats and pic
ture hats, jumped straightaway into
the water to test their opinions The
onlookers, thinking that they were wit
Messing a double suicide, dashed off
in boats to the rescue. The women
however, declined assistance until they
had pluckily swum considerable dis
lance and were almost drowned by
their clinging garments. They both
agreed, after reaching the shore, that
skirts are not conducive to easy swim
ming, while Corsets were an impede
ment.
A memorandum was recently is
sued by the Director General of the
Army Medical Service on the unfitness
of the men offering themselves for
enlistment in the English army. This
states that the question constitutes a
problem by no means easy to solve
Information is wanted as to cases of
physical deficiency and as to the best
available methods of remedying de-
fects and improving the national
health. Such an inquiry might fifty be
undertaken by a commission as the
matter is one of the utmost Importance
from a recruiting point of view. 1t is
suggested that the Secretary of State
might take the initiative in the matter
of getting the opinion of the Councils
Iof the Colleges of Physicians and
Surgeons with regard to the necessity
for such an inquiry, the ground to be