The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-27
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by the use of an Englishman's device hav-
ing long tube divided into longitudinal
chambers, to correspond with the cham
bers in the revolver, the compartments
being filled with cartridges, which are
forced by springs into the revolver cylin-
der.
A movement towards the esta Adjustment
of a permanent opera has just been
started in London A number of well-to-
do musical people are backing the scheme
one of the main purposes of which is to
produce works of originality and merit by
unknown composers. The operas viii be
given in English and English singers and
musicians will have preference, although
the nationality of the COMPOSERS is not
to be taken into consideration. The pro-
jectors of this Ethiopian scheme have not
hesitated to ask for municipal aid. re-
quest for subsidy from the London City
Council of SS0O0O0 has been made by Or.
Villers Stanford, one of the would-be
founders, but thus far it has not been
taken seriously by the men who have the
responsibility for the disbursement of Lon
don's taxes
The Episcopal Church Army will es-
tablish labor home in Pittsburg, for
the reclamation of degraded and homeless
men. 1t will have a large dormitory with
100 cots, a large bathroom, a laundry,
library and reading room, a dining room,
a kitchen, and office and workroom,
where kindling wood and boxes will be
prepared for sale. AS soon as the bust
ness will warrant it horse and wagon
will be purchased for the purpose of de-
hvering wood and boxes to purchasers,
and for the purpose of collecting donations
for the kitchen. 1t is hoped in this way
to make the home almost, if not quite,
self-sustaining after the FIRST year. No man
will be admitted to the home until he has
done al least two hours work in advance.
Four hours work entities man to lodging
and meals. Two hours work will be al
lowed for himself, the daily profit of
these two hours to be paid to the man at
the end of stated periods. After a man
has proved himself to be true and indus
trious, other employment will be sought
for him.
AT Usage City, says the Kansas City
Journal. Mrs. C. A. Stodard was cleaning
up her garrett when by some means the
family cat got into an old trunk filled with
clothing and was shut in tight and fast.
Just twenty days later Mrs. Stodard was
in the garrett again and heard the cats fee
bic cry from the trunk When the lid was
lifted the cat had just strength enough to
climb out 1t had torn the clothing in the
trunk all to pieces in its cIawing and had
gnawed the sides nearly through i'll several
places But perhaps the most singular
circumstance was found in the manner in
which the cat took care of itself after SC.
curing liberty. Mrs. Stodard set before
it big dish of milk and a big dish of
water. 1t would lap a little of each and
then lie down for few minutes, when
again it would partake sparingly of the
milk and water, and this proceeding il
continued through the whole afternoon. If
that cat had been a human doubtless he
would have swallowed all that was placed
before him It one gulp and before dark the
undertaken would have been pumping EN-
balming fluid in him. Which teaches us,
dear children, that cat in a trunk some
times knows more than a G,an in joint
Lord Curzon, the new Viceroy of In
dia, appears to have been rather unfortu-
nate in his method of dealing with the
Sultan of Muscat. Had little more tact
and little less haste been used on the
British side the French need not have
been brought into the matter at all, and
the interruption in the growing tendency
toward an amicable feeling between the
two nations might have been avoided The
Sultan of Muscat agreed to grant to the
French consul the privilege of a coaling
depot at Muscat. The privilege was not
TO carry with it the right to hoist the
French flag or to erect fortifications The
difference between the meaning of the
word coaling station and coaling depot or
place merely for storing coal, was involv-
ed. Lord Curzon took the former mean
ing for granted and, as England had a
coalilg station at Muscat, he sent bat
tleshlp at once with an ultimatum to the
Sultan 70 withdraw the French privilege.
An explanation and an apology had to be
made by the British government to the
French government. The French got their
coaling depot, as the treaty between
France and England of 1862 provided for
equal rights in Muscat, and Lord Curzon
was the scapegoat-a disagreeable position
for one in his exalted, though very recent.
authority to occupy.
The correspondence columns of the
Australian papers are teeming with novel
and original suggestions for the style and
title of the federal capital of the early
future, says the London Chronicle
'"Cooktown" is proposed as a posthumous
compliment to Capt. Cook, the Columbus
of the Australian seas. "Ophir," the bibli-
can golden city, is also considered appro-
pirate, as gold is the principal Australian
product. Augusta" the name of the
first-known settlement on the site ef
London, is regarded by one correspondent
as capital symbol for "a noble, maies-
tic, imperial city" Alexandria, Guelnh
Southern Cross. Australopolis, Austral-
burgh, Victoria Regina, Atlantis. Federal
City, Queen Victoria City, Fedora. South
minister, and Britannia are a few Of the
titles culled from a considerable variety of
epistoiary samples. An admirer of the
premier of the parent colony recommends
Reidville. Perhaps the most sensible sug-
gestion is that of "An Australian Girl,
who would leave the selection of the title
of the federal capital TO the Queen. Her
majesty has not been asked to play this
role of godmother since she bestowed the
name of New Westminster upon the first
capital of British Columbia, then an indie.
pendent colony, now the most western
province of the Canadian Dominion ,rhe
present capital of British Columbia bears
the Queens own name. Victoria.
-"One of the strangest accidents in NV
experience" said a boiler expert, accord
ing to the New Orleans Times-Democrat
occurred a few years ago at a small
saw-mill town over in Texas. They had
a