The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-12
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will not touch the Confession of Faith.
To check the emigration of English
boys to the colonies, the Lambeth
England guardians are trying to APP
| prentice them to home farmers, many
of whom are ready to pay good wages
and look carefully after the boys.
The committee for the extension of
the Protestant faith in France and Bel
GUM has sent a delegate to this coun-
try to solicit aid for the needy Hugue-
not and Walloon churches of those
countries, the membership of which
numbers about 100000
AT the Hotel Drouot, in Paris, a
short time ago, a dish of old Rouen
! faience with blue and red decorations
brought S1,1S1. A hollow dish of old
Rouen with blue decoration in the Chi
nese style realized 1888, and another
decorated with blue cupids, brought
| $243.
1t was proposed to the London
County Council recently that Stephen
sons locomotive, the "Invicta," should
| be placed on one of the parapets of the
Westminster Bridge as an ornament
| and memorial. The Council considered
the proposal seriously, going so far as
there. Then the lovers of art got to-
gether and made such a row that the
question was reconsidered.
"A cycling statistician has drawn
up table of comparative costs of
touring in various countries. The
British tour is considerably more ex-
pensive than the continental tour, and
Scotland is more expensive than Eng
land France Tfalxy nd
| all much on level, from 80 to 40
per cent. cheaper than Great Britain,
and lowest of all in the list comes Bel
GUM, land much favored by the
tourist by reason of the beauties of
the Ardennes country.
France Milnitaire contains an in
teresting study of the commissariat
problem of the Russian army. For
an army of 100000 men and 100, 900
horses, 1900 tons of food and fodder
are required. This amount can be
transported in six trains composed of
from thirty to thirty-five cars, the
loading of which requires not more
than a day. But there are already
at Mukden, Port Arthur. and other
points in Manchuria provisions for six
months. and Manchuria and the Rus
sian coast provinces are rich in grain
and cattle. According to this study,
in September Russia can dispose of co.
coo tons of grain produced on the spot
in addition to 100000 cattle and a vast
quantity of pigs. During the sum-
mer the service which will be render
ed by the waterways will relieve the
Trans-Siberian road.
The origin of a red letter day
has been traced back to the third CEN
fury, says the London Telegraph.
Gregory, Bishop of Caesarea, Jealous
for the conversion of pagans, found
them unwilling to give up their GUS
tomary recreations at the festivals of
their gods; so, taking a leaf out of
their book, he instituted festivals in
honor of saints and martyrs. This
example soon led to the institution of
holy days, now corrupted into holi-
days. In old almanacs all such holy
days were set forth in red ink, the
rest being in black: hence the term
red letter day" for any notable oc-
casion. Others say that the origin of
the EXPRESSION is much more recent
and is due to the fact that Saints
Day, Nov. 5, the Kings birthday and
accession and King Charles day we've
similarly marked off in red as holidays
for the Bank of England. evidently in
the times of the later Stuarts.
Lie hdIlLG DIlu6y one VI Tie
best-known characters in the streets
of Berlin, is dead, says the London
Telegraph. She was usually to be
seen on Inter den Linden, between
FriedrichStrasse and the Branderburg-
er Thor She was worn-looking wom-
an, about fifty-ive, shabbily dressed,
although of good family, and always
carried q heavy bag. Every Berliner
knew her, and no one molested the
poor, demented creature. Her story is
tragic. Many years ago she was be-
trothed to a navy surgeon, and short
ly after her engagement she received
news that he was drowned at sea- Her
mind became unhinged, and since the
day of the fatal news she has wander
ed along Inter den Linden, believing
that her betrothed would return to Ber-
lin, driving through the Branden-
burger Thor. In the heavy bag she
carried what she believed was a suit
of clothes, for which her lover would
exchange his sea-stained garments.
One of the persons who seems to
be in request in New England is the
medical composer" says the Phila-
delphia Ledger. This parsonage is.
or should be, a doctor of medicine who
is able to compound drugs and give
| the result an attractive name which
will make it a good seller. The man
who can originate a good popular nos
trum may make more money than the
composer of songs without words" or
a popular march or a coon song"
Col. Sellers was not too sanguine. ii
seems, about the sums which can be
made from selling patent medicines.
All New England is a great field for
operations. The people of the country
districts are addicted to the guzzling
of all kinds of medicines. Every re-
mote little country store carries a
stock of the faVorite remedies, and the
composer and the manufacturer of his
compositions" have gold mine which
is said to pan OUT much better than
the average Klondike Strike" while
all the hardships falls on the con-
sumner.
Official control Of the oyster trade
to secure immunity from disease
germs must at present, as in the case
of milk, depend on a test of the
! product at the market, says the New
York Commercial. In both cases the
source of supply is usually beyond the
| jurisdiction of the municipal health Of
ticer. 1t has been thought by many
| psychologists that the presence of the
Bacillus coli communis in oysters was
a positive indication of pollution by
sewage, and in England, until very re-
Gently this test has been applied in
determining the edibility of shell fish.
Recent researches have shown it, how
ever, to be of very doubtful value. The
fourth report of the Royal British
| Commission on Sewage DISMISSAL