The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-22

/ 10 his lack OF tact and. sad TO say. not
I little 10 his swift success, something not
I easily forgiven.
acterized as an amateur diplomat hv
the Russian minister Of the interior. for
his zeal in behalf OF the American insur-
auce companies Is another unpopular. but
Z successful writer. with distinguished ac-
quaiutances-
II is a curious fact that. although there
are 90 the average year Do very good days.
the 2ith of May should have been chosen
Tor the Russian coronation ceremony. This
is the birthday of Queen Victoria Is Do
shrewdly planned that the lion and the
hear shall hereafter on that day celebrate
together an AnglO-Russian holiday and
NIX Eodkl with hot punch in an interua-
uonH arf-'n arf2
Condolences more trivial than this have
so me political gossips redividing the
map of Europe.
A new American singer is just beginning
nel career In the home Of song, La Scala.
Milan She is Mile. Dalma. in private
lie Mrs. Rudolph ArOnson. who has been
studying abroad for three years. Mrs.
AFOhson Is not, in one sense, begin
ner- She used 10 sing in the Casino
mere when her husband managed TO-. and Is
well remembered for her beauty of voice
ana person. Precisely why 10 Is that Amer
lean singers have TO go abroad is not so
apparent. Perhaps cahied press notices
are better than homemade and perhaps
hut no. Perish the thought Nine. La
barde OF Paris cannot be "a wiser instruct
or than the Sweet Singer OF BuckspOrt
he who would admit il is not true Ameri-
can.
And indeed there is a good deal Of dis
appointment in foreign musical study.
Women, especially who so abroad to learn
their musical ps and as are subjected TO
a great deal or annoyance ana 10 some
positive dangers. unless accompanied 10y
nice, hOny maiden aunts.
Talking of Americanism. the new Min
ing Exchange IN New York is an example
worth seeing of the national git" West
ern and eastern capitalists and methods
have been fighting for its control and the
rfae OF an hsnDr fg4HH raua
Quently n is cheerful wide-open game.
and the conservative east is worried: prin-
cipally, no doubt, because the breezy new
corners are out for lambs wool, which
might otherwise be shorn in the old stock
exchange.
Poor lambs, II in the scrap between the
two parties their wool is plucked out by
the roots IL won't grow again. And the
future has wintersi
In the wreck Of matter and the crush of
worlds coronations. conventions boat
races and things, it is just as we'll not to
forget that the farmer feeds us all, when
the mud doesn't prevent his hauling stuff
to the market
Father ODonnen of New York state dis
tlnctly understood that he, and not
Farmer Budd of New Jersey or any other
person, is the suggestor of the steel
tracked roadway, perhaps the most prom
lslng of the new good roads ideas. Far
mers ODonnel, Budd and other propose.
in brief, TO lay wide shallow steel rails in
the public highways, with turnouts at
intervals. Wagon wheels would run cas-
lily on fiat rails on either or 10 inches
wide, with fianges on either side to pre-
vent the wheels slipping off. Except up
on main travelled roads the cost might
be pretty heavy, but there would be al
most no limit to the loads that could be
drawn upon such a track. Bicyclists could
easily use it. The appearance might not
quite equal that of a good. well-crown-
ed macadam road, but the idea is worth
considering. especially i'm regions where
macadam stone is scarce.
one beauty of the steel track is that
wagons with narrow tires could safely
use II. Macadam necessitates broad
tire law. which causes some opposition.
How true il is that there's nothing new
under the sun! Here we are again back
at the old plank road idea A steel plank
running lengthwise, instead of a wooden
one crosswlse; that's all the difference.
And in the west the last few years
have seen the temperance of the prai-
RE schooner and the freight wagon.
owen Langdon.