The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-12

| ACCORDING TO the Railroad Gazette,
! electricity is used to some extent in Eu-
rope to propel trains on standard gauge
railway tracks. In Germany, between
| Dusseldorf and Crefeld, a distance Of
| fourteen miles, an express train is run
| by electricity at a maximum speed or
| thirty-seven miles an hour. Each car has
a motor on the axle and takes the cur
rent from an overhead trolley. Some fifty
| persons are carried on a car, but freight
| is also carried A decided advantage over
| American electric cars lies in the fact that
| air brakes are employed. Add to this that
| the cars are heated and lighted by cleo
| trlcity and elegantly furnished and it will
be understood that the Fatherland is forg-
| ing ahead.
Queen Emma of Hollands sister. Prin-
cess Elizabeth of Waldeck-Pyrmont is
about to marry young German nobleman
who has strongly developed strain of He
Drew blood in his veins. For her fiancee
, Is Count misunderstanding whose moth
, er is Princess of BattenDerg his grand
mother, the late Princess Julia of Batten-
berg, having been Julia Hduke, who was
abducted by Prince Alexander of Fesse
brother of the late Czarina, from the
school of St Petersburg, where she was
being educated at the expense of the EN-
press. Julia Haukes father, a secretary
of Grand Duke Constantine Paulowitcn
was Jew, and her brother, Simon Hauke
was Killed on the barricades in Dresden
Whiie hghting in the revolutionary ranks
against the royal troops The Semitic
strain is strongly marked in all the Young
er branches of the Battenberg family
Prince Louis of Battenberg, now the head
OF the family, is a singularly handsome
man, whose bearing and appearance retain
little or no trace of the Polish Jewish
peddler who was his great-grandfather on
the mothers side
"A coat Of arms has no legal status in
the United States, as has recently been
made manifest to severa, members of a
Philadelphia family of high ancestral ORR
gin, who We're told by eminent counsel
says the Record of that city, that a coat
OF arms was practically farae naturae Ga
Wid beaSO in the eyes of the law One
member of this family, a practicing physi-
clan, had effected The cure of tobaccon-
ist, who, to show his gratitude got up a
special gold-tipped cigarette, which he
called by the doctors name. He en-
blazoned on the cigarette paper the doc
tors family coat of arms. AS there were
several branches of The family, all equally
entitled to use this coat of arms, they were
deeply indignant at their cherished distinc-
ton being appropriated for a trademark.
Some of them engaged lawyers to get out
an injunction restraining the cigarette
upon consulting one of the leading lawyers
of the Philadelphia bar were told that they
could do nothing to restrain the manu-
facturer. Even a copyright would be use
less, as the coat of arms had been used
by many persons in previous generations.
Engineering News insists upon an
abatement of the folly of letting people he
made to believe sta tements that water
analysis can show whether or not drink
ing water contains the germs that pro-
duce TYPHOID fever. If such belief were
not a menace to the public health, IL
might be ignored. 1.-The fact is" says the
News, "that such public statements COM
ing from supposed authoritative sources.
create a false sense of security, and in
this way are likely to do real HARM Said
Prof. Percy F. FARMLAND before the sec.
ton of physics, chemistry and biology OF
the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain,
Indeed, the detection of specific patho-
genie bacteria in drinking water is now
known to be almost beyond the range of
practical politics. and the search for such
bacteria is in general, only carried on In
Difference to the special request of the lay
man, the uninitiated or the hopelesslv
ignorant, while it cannot be repeated or
ten enough that any feeling of security
which may DE gathered from an unsuc-
cessful search for pathogenic bacteria Is
wholly illusory and in the highest degree
dangerous" Bacteriology is of great value
says the Baltimore Sun, when properly ap,
piled but. like other olOg'es, it Is likely
to be abused by quacks. Prof Frankland
says that by far the greatest service rem
dered by bacteriology in water supply
matters is in connection with filtration
where 1t forms a most certain and reliable
test of the efficiency of any given plant,
at once laying bare "the slightest irreg-
ularity or defect in the process"
Admirers of Lord Byron will be sorry to
learn that Newstead Abbey, his ancestral
home, is doomed TO disappearance. Some
time ago coal was discovered on the prop
erty. Mines were opened, and these are
proving so popular and rich that they are
being worked to their fullest extent. OPP
eratiOns cannot, however be extended
without entailing the destruction of the
Abbey, with its cloisters and quaint old
garden. In this connection the Courts of
Europe sees fit to remind its readers of the
! fact that the Peer popularity known as
the wicked Lord Byron was not the
poet, but his cousin and predecessor in
the title. This Lord Byron killed a near
kinsman in a singularly cowardly manner
and after being convicted by the House of
Lords of manslaughter and punished with
Imprisonment and fine spent the remainder
of his days in Newstead Abbey, stunned
by the people and 50 embitterd against
his fellow-crea lures that he sought in ev-
cry way possible to shock and horify them,
1t was he who brought down the famous
curse upon Newstead Abbey by violating
the tomb Of some of the old-time abbots
of Newstead and converting their skulls
into drinking cups, which he used for his
orgies. The curse was to the effect that
Newstead Abbey should never from that
time forth pass from father to son, and
although it has changed hands repeatedly
and has been owned in turn by the un-
happy poet by Col. Wldman, and by the
late Mr.. Webb. yet the blight seems still
to cling TO it, for, although its last owner
had a son, it descended to his eldest
daughter, who is about to demoish the
historical landmark.
U,ro,,, r3orii,, 1900 ~ q,