The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-17
roBFIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

FOREIGN NoiIo VI u" -
- +ba corridors at Windsor STANDS
IL ebony pedestal, and on 1t
lid casket of seventeenth century
sSpt,D work, with sides of engraved
.,,vstal. Within this gorgeous
.,',e lies wide open, on satin cush-
little welI-worn book. 1t is
rordon's Bible. and is open at
w. gospel according to st. John. Be-
,.,.. little plate bears an inscription
1ll'ording the fact that the Biple was
--,,...rted TO Her Majesty by the sister
- con. Gordon after his deatn.
From statistics published within
ID, ,,ssr few days it appears that be-
tl5 ahout 900, 900 cycles there are
SUI e,,,er than 5000 motor cars in use
~ Lrance at present. There are 1,4S6
~ tra Seine department, and the rest
III s.attered about the country. The
as show an increase of Il per cent.
IN T. months.
a, English army officer who has
ac0uaintance with both the
J,.--.b and the German army has been
ar3asyoring to arrive at the average
or,oant per annum which 1t costs
s+bait-rn in England, France and Ger
many to live in the army. The ngures
49, gives are: France, $400i Germany,
S-0o- England, $1,000.
,orbarton Castle, the most historic
c.,-,fsh military fortress next to Edin-
h,,~yb Castle, has fallen on evil days.
rrbe English war Office has withdrawn
u.s. one soldier, the last of the garrf-
snr For many hundreds of years it
i,7-a5 a military garrison and con-
tsired thousands of ancient and mod
en-, weapons. Among these was the
wallace sword" about six feet in
1sroth. now removed to Sterling Cas-
tie
new division of seagoing torpedo
boats has been added to the German
navy. The vessels are five in number
and are from the same type as those
lately sent for service in Chinese wa
ters. Each has a displacement of $50
TONS. with a crew of so men, an arma-
ment of three torpedo tubes and five
ouick-iring Pinch guns. The boats
are capable of steaming 26 to q knots
an hour, and each can carry 100 tons
Of coal.
There has just been completed in
the works of a firm of granite mer-
chants Aberdeen. and sent to London
for shipment to South Africa, memo
rial for the tomb of Prince Christian
Victor. who died when on service in
the Boer war 1t is an elegantly de-
signed cross, made of granite, obtain
ed from d quarry at Balmoral, and is
a tribute to her grandson by the late
Queen Victoria, who took a close per-
sonal interest in the selection, both Of
the material and the design. The
cross will be erected in Pretoria Ca
thedral, where the young prince rests.
Each letter is raised and polished on
the surface, forming an artistic con-
trast to the ground, which is left plain
and sunk about an eighth of an inch.
The inscription in front of the die has
been beautifully executed in bronze.
1t is not altogether surprising, says
the London Chronicle. that the Duke
Of Argyll should be, as is announced,
offering the Island of Three for sale, as
Well as the lease of Inverary Castle.
The Princess Louise has never taken
kindly to her Argyllshire home, and,
as for TREE. it is of little interest to
island is about fourteen miles in ex-
tent from north to south, and varies
in breadth from one to five miles. The
Duke gives the area as twenty
thousand acres. but most gazetteers
say about nineteen thousand is it's eX-
tent, The island abounds in marble,
Of which it is said the shores on the
rocks are also entirely composed, but
Tor some unexplained cause the quar-
RES cannot be worked. Scotsmen gen.
orally will regret if Inverary Castle
should pass. even on a lease, out of
the hands of the Argyll family. 1t is
the principal seat of the Dukes an
Gent and powerful house, and is one
OF The most historically fascinating
homes in Scotland.
Owing to the unusually large amount
Of passenger traffic this season between
Paris and London an effort has been
made by the English press. seconded
only by a certain section of the Paris
press, 10 have quicker means of trans
poftatlon and better travelling accom-
modatlons between the two capitals
Inc effort. in measure, has been sue
cessful. The other day the Nord run
hlng between Calais and Dover made
me record run across the Channel in
Hl'y-lhree minutes forty seconds, a
leat which the Pas de Calais is now
irving to excel. The French Northern
hallway is also introducing vestibule
cars FOR second class coaches on all ex-
press trains from Paris. A change
TOO has been made in the time table.
Inc express train which formerly left
the Care du Nord, in Paris, at 8: "a in
the afternoon with passengers for Eng
lah1, via Boulogue and 1Tolkstone, now
starts five minutes earlier. the pas
Srhsers arriving at the Victoria and
H'.oorn Niaduct Stations at 11:50 at
nsAt. while the train which formerly
Iet Paris for Calais at 1850 a. m. now
starts at 11:20 a. m. and succeeds in
having It's passengers alight in Lon
uoH Al Z p. m, instead of at 7:S5. as for
merely. To make this possible the Gus
toiAs autorities have lent their cordial
Iteration, and the electric cranes
al alais and Dover are now so oper-
al4i that baggage can be loaded or
uHI'aled In twenty-five minutes. 9th
Hme-saving devices will shortly be
Ir,t'iuced, and the French Northern
NaiiNay has announced that vestibule
,aIS Tor third class passengers will
'n De run on afternoon and night