The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-12


Spauiding has said that ne will not at this
time take UP the question of the dutia-
biity of the electric current passing from
the United States to Canada. and vice
versa. He has been asked several weeks
ago by people in Buffalo to decide whether
the Ontario Power Company at Niagara
Falls, Ont, ought not to pay duty on the
electricity supplied in Buffalo. An inquiry
to this effect was made by Assistant Sec
rotary Tichenor several years ago and
ii was then held that no charge could be
made.
Chicago is preparing to use the drain
age canal as a source of electrical power.
1t is thought that the power can be used
with profit as a motive power on the ca
nal The German government is ahead
of other countries in this respect, and has
recently constructed an electrical hauiage
system on the Dortmund-E Ems canal Es-
Inmates by German officials indicate that
in traffic of between 5000 600 and 5000. 900
tons the price by waterway will be cheap
er than by rail from 90 to 80 per cent,
and with a traffic of 10000 900 tons the de
crease in cost will amount to 80 per cent.
"A Chicago manufacturer of mining
machinery says: Were il not for the
boom in mining in other portions of the
world. the war in South Africa would
have been quite a serious blow to mining
machinery men. AS much expensive min
ing machinery has been sent TO this sec
ton as any place in the world. American
factories furnish most of it. But just az
this market was closed we had the de-
mand in British Columbia, an increased
demand in the United States and an
impetus in mining in other places in the
world. Our business is booming. When
the war is over all the mining engineers
and manchinery manufacturers in the
world cannot supply the demands The
Beers will blow up the mines and destroy
the machinery a. fast as they have 70
abandon them. If there is a surrender be-
fore the English reach Johannesburg the
Beers may not do this but the men in our
business who are very well posted are MOI
looking for this. 1t will require millions of
dollars worth of machinery to replace
that destroyed and TO be destroyed"
The Hagerstown (Md) Globe prints a
letter which William ]. Hibarger Of
Sharpsburg, Md, received from Corpl
John H. Need, Thirty-frst Regiment
| United States Volunteers, Camp Parang
Philippine Islands, dated Jan. 3 Corpl
| Need says, among other things: THE Sui
! tan of the Moros has seventy wives and
| the dato, or chief has five or six; the
| others have from two 20 three. Their re-
| ligion is the Mohammedan. They belong
| to the Malay race. Whatever the Sultan
| travel from one place to another they go
| by water in canoes, which are made from
| trunks of trees followed out. You ought
| to see the natives run their canoes. When
| the Sultan travels he goes in style. He
has q large canoe with the Stars and
| Stripes and lots of streamers attached
| 1t is 100 feet long, 10 feet wide and has
| fifty rOwers. He takes with him 100 war
| riors as his body guard who are in ca
| noes all around him. Five or six of his
| wives go with him wherever he goes. He
has the best-looklng of the women-most-
| ly young girls Is or 16 years old
"A New York dispatch of March says:
| At the quarterly meeting of the council
of the New York University to-day an
nouncement was made of a gift of 500, 900
| for the erection OF what is described a
"A Hall of Fame for Great Americans.
| 1t will be in the form OF a terrace or prom
enade on University Heights, sos feet in
| length, 10 feet above the Hudson over
! looking the Hudson and the Harlem rv-
| ers and commanding a view of the Pail
sadeS. The donor is a citizen of New
York and desires his name withheld. The
| purpose of the structure is similar to the
"Ruhmes Halle" near Munich, which is
devoted to memorials of famous Germans.
| One hundred and fifty panels, each about
two by eight feet will be provided for in
| scriptions. Fifty of these will be inscrib-
| ed in 1900 provided fifty names shall be ap-
! proved by two bodies of judges. AT the
! close of every five years thereafter five
| additional panels will be inscribed, so that
| the entire number shall be completed by
| A. D. 1000. The statue, bust or portrait
| of any person whose name is inscribed
| may be given place either in the Hall
| of Fame or in a museum adjoining.
One of the odd things noticed in Mex
! lean theater is that while the women al
ways go bareheaded the men wear their
hats all the time the curtain is closed
| During the performance they remove
| them but the moment the curtain falls,
on the hats go. Frequently men rise in
| their seats and sweep the tiers of boxes
| with large glasses. 1t is considered some
| thing of an honor to have the glasses of
! a swell below leveled a your box. Smok-
! ing is permitted in all theaters. An effort
| has been made to stop it in the best
| houses, but it goes on in spite of the
| rules No programmes are given patrons
| of the opera, but the cast is always an
| nounced on the bills distributed in the
| streets, and opera patrons generally take
these with them. Very little advertising
| is done Occasionally in some obscure cor
ner you may stumble across a poster
about two feet square announcing the
opera for the evening, with the name of
the principal singer, and six or eight boys
/ parade the streets with banners giving
| the same information Circuses are adver-
/ tised in the same way. The newspapers
| get no revenue from amusements of any
| kind in Mexico
Rev. DR.. Hugh Macmillan in an article
entitled THE Geometry of God" and pub
| lished in the Culver, thus illustrates this
interesting subject; Tho beautiful colors
| of nature are caused by vibrations or
waves Of light, which have been counted
| and are always exactly the same for the
| same color. The number of waves requir-
| ed to produce the sensation of red as
| they break upon the eye must be $4,000 in
| an inch and A7 million million in sec
! ond The number of waves required to
| produce yellow must be 1900 in an inch
! and 535 million million in a second. And 50
will all the other colors To enable you
| to see a red rose or a red ribbon no less
| than AT million of millions of ether waves
! must break upon your eye every second.
| The stars, also, are arranged in the heav-
ems not by chance, but according to a