The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-16

stunt at that place the other day, Wal
ter Evans, who was sitting among the
spectators. recognized her as his sweet
heart, whom he had lost track of three
years ago. Evans used to do an act
in a small show, and knew Matte
in Indianapolis. She read in the news
papers that w. Evans, a circus per-
former, had been killed, and supposed
it was he At about the same time
she left Indianapolis, and, Evans's let
ters to her being retGrned, he decided
she had thrown him over. AS she
thought he was dead, he scared her
badly when he walked up to her at
Joplin. And now, of course, they are
going to get married and live happy
ever after-or, not to put too fine a
point upon it, as happily as circus peo-
pie usually do.
The great need of the time, in the
opinion of electricians, says the Elec-
trical Review, is a good and cheap in
sulating material. An inventor who
will turn his attention to it and pro-
duce it has a great fortune awaiting
him. Other departments of the electri-
cal business have got excessive atten-
ton, but this practical and simple mat
ter has been neglected. There is here
a. large field for research open to
chemist who understands the situation.
I'VE now have" says the Review,
mica, rubber, various varnishes and
shellacs, cotton and silk, and for line
work, glass and porcelain. OF these
{ materials, glass and cotton are the
only inexpensive ones, and the latter
generally requires, in addition, treat
ment with some material while to
make the former reliable is trouble
debt to electrical science for many
new processes, and the electrician is
fully within his rights in asking for
assistance now that he is in need.
st. Louis has a city improvement
league, organized sixteen months ago
with 100 members, now expanded to
1000; and it's first annual report shows
that it has been doing useful and eff
cient work in the city's interest since
its foundation. 1t first used its infiu-
ence toward having bill passed by
the city authorities removing the ex-
position building from a public park In
order that the new Carnegie library
might be placed there. 1t has built
three free public baths when the CITY
had none before, and gave about $1,000
poor children baths during last sum-
mer. Five more are in progress, the
municipality having now been shown
the way. 1t has tackled the billboard
question, the street railway systems
and pretty nearly everything amtss In
local administration, working gen
eral result of good in all that it has
touched. The city has a good deal to
do to prepare itself for the crowds
which will visit it next year, and no
doubt the league will help it along m
many ways, like the useful and public
spirited organization which it obvious
~ is.
-Khartoum is yielding to the touch
of civilization. 1t is no longer a dust
heap, says a correspondent; it is
riverside, European, half completed city
on the Blue Nile. Gordon's College is
nearly finished. At Omdurman. the
,DerVish rival of Khartoum, and only
three miles distant, on the White Nile,
schools are at work, and among the
scholars are gray headed Soudanese.
An English church bill be built as
soon as funds are forthcoming, and
service meanwhile is held in the
palace. A little in the rear, toward the
desert, a noble mosque is being erected
with funds from the Wakf, the Ma
hometan religious establishment.
capital club, a large postoffice, fine
engineering works, many private houses
of officers and officials, nearly all with
gardens, a geological garden, and one
fine hotel. the Grand, line the river
side for more than a mile already. The
native tribesmen earn daily wages in
Khartoum as masons, bricklayers,
brickmakers, carpenters, gardeners and
laborers peaceably side by side, and in
the twelve villages a few native police
men secure order easily.