The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-16
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A committee of well known citizens of
Washington has been appointed to arrange
for a celebration of the centennial ami
versary of Washington, in 1900. The COM
mittee will call upon the President of the
United States in a body, invite his at
tention TO the coming anniversary, and
suggest that in his annual message to Con-
gress he call the attention of that body
to this matter, with the view of securing
the cooperation of the general govern
ment
An Italian electrical expert considers
that for steam locomotives the limit has
now been reached. the best types develop
ing 1880 horsepower, and Weighing 254
pounds per horse power. For progress,
therefore, he looks TO the electric motor
fed from central station, this being the
lightest motor known; he believes that the
weight can be reduced to % pounds per
horse power, and that the absence of any
reciprocating parts removes all limit to
the ultimate speed attainable.
"A very interesting application of teleg-
| raphy, as carried out by means of Hert-
zian waves, has lately been tried. notes
the Scientific American, in Dublin During
the races of the Royal Alfred Yacht Club
| the proprietors of the Dublin Daily Express
were able to receive their dispatches by
| means of this system. Mr.. Marconi, who
conducted this operation, followed the rae
ing yachts in a tugboat, in the cabin of
which was the necessary apparatus used
in transmitting the MESA ges. An observer
stationed on the bridge signalled the pro-
gress of the race, and Mr. Marconi trans
mitted the report TO land. The messages
We're received by the subordinate at King-
| ston, distance of some five or ten miles,
| and from there We're telephoned to the
mol he
| in the space of few minutes after they
Were sent, and were published in the sub
| sequent issues of the paper The trans
| mission was accomplished without a single
| hitch, and none of the messages required
| repeating, the apparatus working satisfac-
| toriy throughout.
About a dozen of the 400 barons in the
British House of Lords date back to 400,
the earliest being 1854 says the New York
| Ledger The Oldest family in the British
Isles is the Mar family of Scotland, 1898
| The Campbells of Argyll, to whom be-
| longs the present Duke of Argyll, began
| in 1880. Talleyrand dates from 1899, Bis
| marck from 1920, the Grosvenor family,
the Dukes of Westminster 1866, the Aus
| trian house of Hapsburg goes back to
952, and the house of Bourbon to S64 The
| descendants of Mohammed, born SO, are
| all registered carefully and authoritative
| ly in a book kept in Mecca by the chief
| of the family. Little or no doubt exists
| of the absolute authenticity of the long
| lines of Mohammed's descendants. In Chi
ma there are many old families, also
among the Jews. When 1t comes to pedi-
| grees there is one gentleman to whom the
world must take off its hat as great and
| only none-such This is the Mikado of ia
| pan. His place has been filled by members
! of his family for more than $500 years.
| The present Mikado is the 122d of the
line The first one was contemporary with
| Nebuchadnezzar, 666 years before Christ.
The colossal palace of electricity,
which was designed by NJ. Eugene Henard,
will be one of the most remarkable fea-
| lures of the Paris exposition in 1900. Like
most of the new buildings on the Champ
! de Mars, it will be built with an upper
| floor, to which access will be had by
broad stairways and by viaducts connect
| ing with other exhibition halls. 1t is es-
timated that 12,OO0-horse water power,
which is equivalent to a flow of 300 gallons
of water per second, will be required to cp-
crate the mighty machinery. This water
will be raised from the Seine by an i'm
mense pumping plant and viii be made
TO do double duty by adding to the scenic
| effects of the grounds At the Chateau
| d Eau there will be a beautiful cascade
electric lights will play. All the lower
| part of the palace of electricity win be
| hidden by the Chateau Eau, above which
| the central hall will rise TO a commanding
elevation. This facade will be 800 feet
| long, and will be surmounted at its highest
point more than 230 feet above the ground
| by a COLOSSAL statue of electricity. BY day
| this facade will be outlined againt the sky
| in a lacework of metal and glass, and at
night il will glitter like diadem of jewels
| flashing the colors of the diamond ruby
| and emerald.
William II is not the first of the Prus-
sian sovereigns to take an active interest
in the holy city, says the Chicago Record
| King Frederick William III first comedy
| ed the idea of Lutheran cahphate at Je-
| rusalem. Has most Protestant majesty
| had long dreamed of planting a branch
of The reform church near the. tomb of
| Christ and the scene of the crucihxion,
| and in 1910 obtained permission of the Sui
| tan to establish a biShopric at Jerusalem
| In 1852 he followed up this enterprise by
establishing a colony of Protestant agri-
| ouiturists, in that part of Palestine and
| has since erected several charitable as
| wei as religious institutions there. In
| 1868 William 1 succeeded in inducing the
Sultan 90 cede to him Mufistam, a sub
| urb of Jerusalem, and the late Emperor
| Frederick III, who was then crown prince,
| took official possession of it with consid-
| cradle ceremony when he went to attend
the opening of the Suez canal. The Church
of ST. Xavier, which the Kaiser assisted
in dedica ting on Oct. 81 is situated in
Murlstam. In 1851 Frederick William sent
to Jerusalem a number of deaconesses Of
the Lutheran Church, and founded a hos
pital containing ninety beds and accom-
Inodating several hundred poor patients
every year. No distinction of religion or
race is made in admission Attached to
the hospital is a free dispensary for all
nations, which is extensively patronized
by pilgrims In 1868 the Empress Augusta
Williams grandmother, founded an or
phan asylum, where 100 girls are being ed
ucated. About the same time and under
her influence the Grandduke of Mecklen-
berg founded an asylum for sick children.
and the Baroness Won Kessenbrinck built
a Lutheran refugee for lepers In 1894