The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-09

"A western congressman recently re-
ceived the following note from one of his
rural constituents to whom he had sent
a consignment of garden seed Kind sir
and esteemed friend / have the seeds.
They came this morning and suit very
well, specially the cabbage seed which
grows we'll in this soil, please send me 2
loads Of fertilizer and a new harrer and IL
you could send me a man for couple of
days 1 would be obliged. with this help
l know the garden stuff will turn out al
rite and l will send some 10 you and the
president. Your gratful well wisher and
Supporter"
An American in Havana says "In
the theaters of Havana they have a trick
of throwing the American, Spanish and
Cuban flags on stereopticon screen. The
Cuban and Spanish flags are always wild
ly chSered, and the American flag is hiss
ed. There is no doubt that the natives
think the Americans are acting in bad
faith. L do not mean to say that there
will be serious trouble but 1 think il
would be better If some programme was
outlined for the island within the next
few months. If this is not done there GER
tainly will be more grumbling than Will be
agreeable for American ears
The new Iowa School Library law pro-
vides that every school district must an
nually set aside from to 10 cents for each
child of school age, the money to go to-
ward the purchase of books for the IL
brary. During the academic year the
books are to be kept in the school house,
but during vacation time they are to be
Kept for the use of the pupils in the house
of some one selected by the board. As
the books may be loaned to persons, not
pupils, 1t is suggested that the country
stores be used as vacation quarters for
the library, and the proprietors of those
places, in view of the additional trade
which the presence of the books would
bring, are eager to comply. The books
to be purchased are limited to a list which
the State Board of Education is to make
out. AT present nearly all the Iowa cities
and towns are awaiting themselves of the
law permitting school directors to spend
SIS year on books; women's clubs are
aiding largely in the work. and in the
rural districts the new regulations will
probably do as much.
The New York Electric Vehicle Com
pany proposes great things for that city
In the course of time it is said to be the
purpose of the men back of this enter
prise-who are also prime movers In the
Metropolitan Street Railway Company-so
to operate this automobile line that 1t will
supplement the transportation facilities
furnished by the street railway company
With this object in view-after perfecting
the service on Fifth avenue-double-deck
automobiles will be run through much
frequented highways not supplied with
street car lines. The routes to be laid out
under authority of the new law, will in
clude a number of cross town streets such
as Sixty-flfth, SeWenty-ninth and Ninety
sixth. Arrangements will also be made to
furnish transportation facilities to per
sons living on the west side of the city
at considerable distance from any of the
surface or elevated lines, as. for instance
the residents of West End avenue and
Riverside drive. When this automobile
stage service Is inaugurated, the fare
charge will, 1t is expected be 10 cents for
each passenger, and, according to the law,
the company must pay a license fee to
the city equal to the charges now in force
for licensing similar stages and omnbuses
and 1t must also pay to the controller of
the city per cent. per annum of it's gross
receipts.
In recent lecture at the Royal Insti-
tuition, London, Mr.. Marconi the inventor
of the first practical apparatus for wire
less biography, described the latest i'm
provements in his device and indicated its
probable developments. He now employs
an induction coil made In a novel way to
increase the electro-motive force of the
waves of electricity. Coils made in the
ordinary way, with large wire inside and
fine wire outside. are useless, or detrim4n-
tai, but If the inner spiral be of finer wire
and wound in a special manner, the dis
lance to which message may be sent is
increased from seven miles TO over sixty
miles The distance 10 which signals NAV
be sent by means of his apparatus varies.
however, approximately with the square
of the hight of the vertical wire With
wires $50 feet high signals are sent eighty
five miles. This exceeds the theoretical
distance-which is but 70 miles-for wires
$50 feet high. Another noticeable circum-
stance is the fact that the messages thus
sent went through, or over, a hill of sea
water 1000 feet high, due to the curvature
| of the earth between the sending and re-
| cefving stations If the waves of cleo
| tricity had not been able to traverse water
the poles for messages going eighty-five
miles would have needed to be 1000 feet
| high. There is a hypothesis that they
went In curved line, above the surface
of the sea, but this is hard to believe.
"A Worcester man, says the Boston
| Transcript, has invented new fncandes-
cent electric lamp, and he confidently be-
| lieves that 1t will revolutionize the system
of incandescent lighting. He calls has in
vention the electric metallic nlament
| lamp. 1t is made on the same principle as
| the ordinary electric incandescent bulb
! lamp only that instead of there being
| a single slender coll of delicate carbon In
| side. there Is stronger substitute, which
| viii increase the wearing properties OF the
lamp and its durability in general way
| The glass bulb in which the filament is
to be placed is also a new departure in
electric lights. 1t Is thick crystal glass
| and in size about as big as O mans ordi-
nary watch. The whole lamp, ready for
business, will be about the size and thi,k-
ness of a watch. The bulb will not be pa
per-shaped, Ike the present make of in
candescent lamps, as the inventor thinks
1t would be too easily broken. A watch
/ shaped glass bulb of thick glass will be
| equipped with the filament inside. The
| hlament Is to be put in the bulb in a star
shaped coil, and the shape gives a much
larger surface to glow with light. The
star viii not touch the glass at any point
| and it will be kept in place by the
| strength of the filament itself at a poiat
| where it enters the bulb. The fiat share
of the bulb will allow of its being set into
| the side of wall, as the new lamp is
| intended to be sunk into the side of apart
ments in which II Is used. The lamp will
not be a suspension lighter but will be
II IL.