The Savannah morning news., 1903-05-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.


Some of the insurance companies
in Denmark have a policy which In
sures a girl against spinsterhood.
When girl baby is born 1925 can be
deposited with the company, and if
she is unmarried at 80 she receives an
annuity of $25. which is increased by
$25 every 10 years. If she n1arries be-
fore she is 80 she gets the 1925 back,
and if she dies her relatives are given
$25.
Gov Bailey of Kansas takes the
stand that as rule one ought not
to aspire to office until he has made
some Roadway in the worlds material
prosperity and has something laid
away for a rainy day He points to
the impossibility of ones saving money
when holding Office and pictures the
hardships that fall upon multitude
who must inevitably yield their places
in the public service to somebody else.
Bear Tracks, outside the five civilized
tribes of the Indian territory. is the
only Indian legislator in the world
He is a member of the Legislature of
South Dakota and resides at Hot
Springs Bear Tracks Is an Ogallallah
Sioux, and is an expert barber by
trade-rather, perhaps, close to the
taking the entire scalp. He has made
and lost a fortune, but at this time
is in very good circumstances.
Bill Crockett of Trenton, MO, is
genius. He had garden he wanted
spaded two weeks ago, but he lacked
the necessary energy to do the work
himself. For q time Bill was in a
quandary. BY chance one day he
discovered hat his unspaded garden
was full of f1sh-Worms, 80 he adver-
tised worms for sale cheap to fisher
men who would spade them up. AS
result, Bill's garden has been nice
ly spaded and he is ahead nearly 81.
Schools for instruction in Western
learning are being established in all
the provinces of China. but not with
out an occasional squirt of conserva-
tive opposition. The Shanghai Mer-
curry prints a translation from an
article in a leading Chinese daily
which says that before China gathers
any good from these schools she is
likely to reap a Nliberal crop of harm.
What the writer fears most from them
is that they will lead to neglect of the
Chinese classics, which the empire has
always leaned on as the rod and staff
of its support and welded as the
weapon Of its defence. Western learn
ing is well enough to instruct pupils
in "a knowledge of chemistry, sound
light, electricity, ETC., but without
study of the classics a Chinanan cam
not be expected to treat his parents
and superiors with due respect"
Moreover, the new culture introduced
while It enlightens the people, also
fills their brains with all sorts of new
ideas which, if not properly regulated
and bounded by the rules of propriety,
will eventually lead to violent rebel
lions against the government"
There is testimony that education
in the Philippines under American aus
pices is going on more swimmingly and
successfully than recent adverse re-
ports would imply, says the New York
Tribune. The thousand American
teachers there, assisted by 3,400 native
auxiliaries, carry on $3.50 day, even
ing and high schools, with an enroll
ment in round numbers of a quarter
of a million scholars, practically all of
them eager to learn the English Ian
guage as the basis of their school train
ing and educational and social outfit.
The report that there was opposition
to this and a clinging to the Spanish
speech on the part of pupils and par
ents as the only one needful turns out
to be merely moonshine. F. W. Nash
writing from Manila In the Educational
Review, says that perhaps the best
illustration of the advancement made
in English education within the last
two or three years is the fact that
thousands of Filipino students who had
never heard a word of that tongue
three years ago are to-day able to re-
ceive in it instruction in the common
school branches and to employ it free
" in their conversation. Two years
or kIa,. Lace 4har
teachers who could give any instruc-
ton in English; to-day there are more
than 1000 actually teaching in this lam
guage and daily putting in practice
methods and ideas learned In the Amer
lean taught normal schools and from
American teachers.
Cremation has been practiced by
most Of the nations OF the earth from
the earliest ages, and although in pa
gan countries II may have taken the
form OF fire worshipping there can be
no doubt that its adoption by the an
clients was for the most part prompted
by other than religious reasons. Greeks
ascrihe its Introduction to Hercules,
who, having sworn 20 transmit the
body OF Argus 20 his father, thought
this the most convenient way OF full
filling his promise. According 10 HO-
mer, the burning OF the dead was "a
common practice among the Greeks
long before the Trojan war but the
earliest recora o. II Is smong the scy-