The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-07
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movable pantries, fitted with electric
heating tables. They will run through
every apartment, thereby insuring RAPID
service and hot food to guests taking
their meals in their rooms.
Private efforts in New Hampshire
for the protection of the states forests
from the lumbermen will receive no aid
from the Legislature" says the New
York Evening Post. THAT body has
just rejected two measures on the sub
ject. One would restrict lumber cutting
to trees of a prescribed size. The other
looked to the establishment of a forest
preserve in the state. and authorized a
loan of $1,O00,00O for the purchase of for
est lands"
Some idea of the tremendous pressure
which is being exerted by Office seekers
upon President Mckinley just now may
be gained from the simple statement that
one senator appeared at the War Depart
ment a few days ago with a typewritten
list of $50 of his constituents, for whom
he demanded PAGES in the new regular
army esta blishment," says a Washing on
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. IF
that rate were to be continued by each
Of the members of Congress the President
would have to appoint new officers to
number far in excess of the total maxi
mum strength of the army
The electric searchlight that is to be
installed on the electric tower Of the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo, ". Y.
says Electricity, is designed to attract
much attention. The searchlight, which is
30-inch protector, will be the most Won
derful light of its kind ever erected, and
it will be operated on the 360-foot level of
the electric tower. In order TO more def
nitely locate this 360-foot level, II may be
further pointed out that 1t is the level at
which the tower makes the last contrac-
ton, and this Is only 81 feet below the
extreme apex or highest point of the tow
er and statue of the Goddess Of Light
that will surmount it. The beam from
this searchlight will flash through the sky
with a brilliancy that will cause it to be
seen for distance of at least 50 miles
The titles Of the members of the House
of Lords, says the London Chronicle, are
as anomalous as many of the powers of
the House itself. The Duke of Devonshire
owns just a few hundred short of 100000
acres, but not an acre of the county of
which he is titled duke, although his pos
sessions are spread over eleven counties
In England and three in Ireland. Of the
Earl of Derby's 10000 acres not one is in
the county of Derby. Possibly the
strangest anomaly of all was the Earidom
OF Fife, which was an Irish earldom when
the present Duke inherited his fathers
title. Like his brother Duke of Devon
shire, his Grace of Fife has not, nor had
any of his predecessors, one acre of land
In the county of Fife, though he possesses
close upon a quarter of million acres
elsewhere.
The Paris Steele revives the story OF
the alleged impending marriage of En-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria and Frau
Schratt, formerly of the Imperial Burg
Theater, which was recently denounced
as a sensational invention in Vienna. The
Steele says that everybody in Austria is
aware of the affectionate relations bind
ing Frau Schratt with the imperial fam
lily. A short time ago Vienna learned
with surprise that she was about to re-
tire and make a journey from Bavaria
to Rome. Soon afterward it was announc-
ed that she had come back from Rome
and that the Pope had given her his ben
ediction, 1T now appears" says the
Paris paper. though the affair is not
yet wholly unveiled. that the Pope not
only vouchsafed Frau Schratt, who was
accompanied by Countess de TRAM, sis
ter of the late Empress, a paternal re
Ception, but that he even granted nullity
20 her marriage to Baron Kisch, by
whom she has son. The retirement of
Frau Schratt from the stage and her di.
vorce are by all accounts prelimlnaries
to her marriage with the Emperor, who,
it is said, has signed a brevet raising her
to the rank of nobility under the title of
Countess Hochstenberg."
The Journal des Debats relates the
following characteristic story of Emperor
William II. when a little boy of 4 years:
at was on March 10. 1863. King Edward
VII, then Prince of Wales, was kneeling
before the altar of St. Georges Chapel
at Windsor with his blushing bride,
Princess Alexandra of Denmark, now the
Queen Consort of England. During the
wedding ceremony, which was most i'm
pressive and attended by a magnificent
assemblage of the British Court and no.
hility and foreign princes and dignita-
ries restless little boy was noticed IN
the front row behind the bridal couple
Two Highland youths, who held him by
his hands, seemed to have great difficult
" In restraining him. Suddenly the lit
tie fellow slipped from the grasp of one
OF his guards, who promptly caught him
by the ear to prevent further escapades
rms so angered the youngster that he
stopped and deliberately bit the High
lander's bare calf. The ready repartee
created no little establishment and
amusement among the attendant royalty
ana peerage. That little boy is to-day the
German Emperor William II. the two
Highlanders who watched him at the
time were, the Duke of Connaught and
the Duke of Albany his uncles."
A device for the utilization Of the
suns heat in creating power has lust
been put into operation at South Pasa-
dena, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Ihe device comprises a funnel shaped
renector S3ls feet in diameter at the ton
and 10 feet at the bottom, and CONTAINING
on its surface 17SS mirrors. This re,sc.
TOR is set on two fixed supporters in such
manner that 1t may follow the movement
OF the sun, and is kept in focus by clock
work Inc adjustment of the mirrors is
such that the suns rays are concentrates
on boiler, tubular in form. 1917 fest q,
length, with capacity of 100 gallons OF
water and feet additional for steam,
space. The concentration of heat ia can
able OF raising the temperature TO sevArai
thousand degrees, but the boiler Is nre-
vented from being superheated by tbe
water within 1t, which is brought TO $50
or 400 degrees. The engine Is fed and The
supply of water in the boiler is maintain
ed automatically, and the only attention
necessary to operate the machine is to
adjust the mirror to focus, and set in on
Grafton in the morning This motor Is
pumping from large underground tank