The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-23

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a statue to Cromwell in his own county.
The appeals made by the Huntingdon
Grammar School, at which he was educat-
ed. and by the Huntington Town Council
this summer both failed. The corporation
only obtained a very small sum toward
the statue and the fund collected by the
grammar school was inadequate 10 pay for
any extension of that institution A third
attempt is now beng made by the Town
Council of St Ives, where Cromwell had
his farm, where he lived for some years
and where he held the office of chairman
of the waywardens.
Many people in Denmark prefer horse
flesh to beef In Germany and Austria
business is brisk in morse meat prepara-
tons, and is becoming more so every year
England is still reluctant about accepting
the new aIment and classes that kind of
food alongside snails and frogs. The first
horse butchers in Paris were only estab-
hshed in 1866; that special trade is now
legally carried on, and is considerably in
creasing, as demonstrated by municipal
statistics-so much so that to-day over 500
tons of horsehesh are consumed annually
in Paris, sold by sixty licensed horse
butchers, who receive supplies from two
special 'hippic' slaughter houses, both
outside the city proper.
Members of the Franklin Institute lisr-
ened with close attention last evening to
description of an apparatus for emboss-
ing printing for the blind by the inven.
tor. SuDt. William B. Wait of the New
York Institution for the Blind, says the
Philadelphia Ledger. Mr.. Wait pictured
on blackboard the various aiphabets IN
use for the sense of touch, and showed his
invention, the typograph, in operation. In
appearance and operation the machine fol-
lows a typewriter, with the difference thar
it can be controlled entirely by one hanG.
while the other is used in reading or fol
lowing copy" and that two letters can lie
struck at once. it prints raised letters.
Somewhat similar is the stereograph,
which punches the letters with q brass
plate. from which, on an ordinary print
ing press, circulars or leaflets in raised
letters can be produced.
"A glance at the financial administration
OF the Transvaal is not without interest.
Mr.. Chamberlain draws attention to this
matter in dispatch sent to he high com
missioner last Nay. After pointing out that
the uttlanders have to bear a burden of
taxation exceeding $50 per head-nearly
S20,WU,OJO per annUm is raised from fewer
than 10000 persOns-jhe colonial secreIery
goes on 10 show how part of this revenue
is spent. Between 1888 and March, 1898 a
sum Of 81 $4,000 had been advanced 10 Of
ticials and was unaccountad for. But per
haps the most startling item concerns the
secret-service money. On this point MI
Chamberlain says: The secret service
fund appears in the current estimates at
$4,000, but even this sum-more than the
amount of the se7re service money voted
in the British imperial estimates-appears
to be habitually exceeded. In 1898 S2l2 $40
Mas spent and in 1895 no less than 1853, 49, ="
The general belief in Eng aud is that the
money is largely spent in anti-Brts h pro-
pasandism in Cape Colony and Natal
As one result Of the Spanish-American
war Australia proposed to supply herself
with quite a formidable naval reserve.
There mas recently been a conference os
naval officers in Melbourne for the pur>
pose of discussing the most suitable basis
of a colonial naval reserve, a which 4
communication was read from Lord Bras,
sey. governor of Victoria, in which ne
stated his opinion that, taking into consid-
GRAFTON the character OF the Australian
population, il would be difficult if not i'm
possible to secure a sufficiently large force
| consisting of sedfarng men only. He
therefore suggested that the system of the
American naval authorities during the war
should be adopted. This was the naviga>
tion by their own crews of mercantile
vessels used as cruisers, leaving the guns
to be manned by marines of the navp
This, according to Lord Brassey. was 4
the English fleets Of the olden time which
met aud Vanquished the Spanish armada
He recommended that a given proportion
Of the proposed naval reserves should con-
siSt of marines drilled and exercised in
naval gunnery. The matter was finally
left to the determination of the Australian
Parliament.
The Toss OF two naval signal books
from the British warship Duke of We ling
out to be q more serious affair than was at
first supposed. Instead of being books con
tanning the mere service code, the missing
volumes are known as Fleet Signals Vols
| and H." and are of the most confidential
character. This special code is changed
| every nine years and the contents of the
missing books have been in use only one
year. Should the volumes be not forthcom-
ing or should their Whereabouts he unac-
counted for within a limited period of
l1me, IL IS SAID that the admiralty Will be
! Obliged 10 revise he code. As an instance
of the importance that the naval author
| tiles attach to this particular code ii is
interesting to know that the books con-
/ tanning IT are, in seagoing vessels, always
kept locked in a perforated chest which
is heavily loaded with lead. Each com
mander has orders to throw the box over
! board in case of an emergency. A secret
inquiry in now being held at the Ports
mouth navy yard, but so far no clue has
been found which might lead to the recoy-
cry of the books. Nor is it known how
long the books had been absent before
their disappearance was revealed. The loss
of the volumes was discovered by pure
accident A dispute arose between two Of
tcers over a certain code, and reference
was made TO the key in the books On
opening The box it was seen that the books
were gone.
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from the sea was that which came to the
Azores in 1855 The Island of Corvo was
then in possession of two beach combers
runaway English sailors. There came
drifting into little harbor one morning
craft which had evidently been frozen
in the ice for a lifetime and had lately been
released. II had come down from Davis
strait, and was an ancient and battered
hulk without masts, bulwarks or name.
The craft had been a brig. and she was a
Russian. Her matches were on and her
cabin doors fast, and the hulk was BUOY
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