The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-05

Mounted on JetA Dldch cndISeAS,
with snow leopard skins on their sad
dies, they are one Of the smartest
troops in India" writes a corresponds
ent describing the Imperial Cadet
Corps, organized in India by Lord Cur
zon for the sons of native princes.
A Bavarian governmental report
states that the American locomotives in
use on its railways have proved supe-
rior to those of German make. This
refers to the engines, which were said
by various Continental papers to be
altogether unsatisfactory.
A Western railway company has
sent an agent to California under in
structions to visit farmers and to as
sist them in getting their relatives and
friends in the East to move to the
Pacific Coast State. The agent car
ries a typewriter and a camera. When
he finds a farmer willing to listen to
him he will offer his services as let
ter-writer, and if they are accepted,
will see that letters descriptive of the
farm, and portraying the advantages
of the country, and accompanied, per-
haps, by photographs, are dispatched
to somebody the farmer knows and
would like to have for his neighbor.
The state premiers of Australia re-
Gently received large, imposing, re-
gal looking envelope having His Maj
esty's Coronation" printed in richly or
namented characters across the top.
All" they said to themselves, this
must be the real invitation direct from
Buckingham Palace, something very
different from the half-hearted, equiv
ocal. take it or leave it sort of intina-
from Mr. oh he RI ain
through Lord Hopetoun and Mr.. Bar
ton" On being opened, card bearing
the royal arms and beautifully printed
in letters of gold was revealed. Sure
enough, it was an invitation-from
leading firm of London coach builders
soliciting the honor of an inspection
of the gorgeous carriage in which
certain duke is to ride during the coro-
nation procession.
The excavation of Gezer is now
going on. First mentioned in the
Egyptian records of Thotmes III and
ten times on the Amarna tablets, Ge-
ger appears in Bible history as
strong city in the time of Joshua, un-
conquered by the Israelites, captured
by a Pharoah and given to his daugh-
ter Solomons wife, and rebuilt by Sol
ONION for the defense of his empire
Lying on the edge of the maritime
plain. close by the road from the sea
to Jerusalem. Gezer was battle
ground of the Maccabees and also of
the Crusaders. It's Identification is
perfect. for M. Clermont Ganneau
found in 1874 it's boundary stones bear
ing its name. After unusual delay the
frnan has been granted. The most
thorough work will be done, and the
excavation will remain open. The
american School is cooperating in the
work, and makes an appeal for funds.
in the House, says the Washington
Post, there are two brothers serving
together and in the Senate two of the
senators are cousins. In neither house,
however, are father and son serving
side by side This was the case in the
Senate when Thomas F. Bayard was
elected in 1859 His father was also a
senator at the same time. There are
numerous instances in the history of
the Senate where sons succeeded their
fathers j. Donald Cameron succeeded
Simon Cameron from Pennsylvania, but
the most renarkabl instance of sue
| cession was afforded in the case OF
! the Stocktons from New Jersey. Rich
| ard Stockton was the first OF the tamly
to enter the Senate, and was followed
by his son. Robert, who, in turn, was
succeeded by his son, John P. Stock
ton. The Bayard family of Delaware
! was also we'll represented in the Sen
ate. James A. Bayard and his son,
James H. Bayard, and Richard H. Bay
ard and his son, Thomas F. Bayard,
were all senator's from that state.
-Auer Won Welsbach. best known to
! fame as the inventor of the now IA
miliar gas mantle, has recently been
| devoting his energies to the develop
ment of an improved incandescent cleo
| trio lamp. He claims to have found
| n suitable material for the fllament
| the most essential feature of the lamp
| in osnium, a rather rare element. Os-
| MUM has the distinction of being the
| hardest metal as we'll as the heaviest
| body known. 1t is found chiefly in
| conjunction with platinum bearing
minerals Edison, it will be remem-
bered, when developing the type OF
| incandescent lamp now in general use
! searched the world over for suitable
material for the filament, testing for
the purpose many thousand substances
| The claims made for the new osmium
| lamp, which also embody the merits
| of all alleged improved incandescent
| lamps offered to the public. are a white
| light and a smaller consumption of en-
| ergy. A Is candle-power oslnium lamp
| it is asserted. can be run with exactly
! o1e-half the consumption of energy re-
uuired for carbon filament lamp OF
/ the same candle-power. The candle
power of the osmium lamps, during eX-
| detrimental tests, has been found to be
| very constant, the light-producine
qualities of the filament, rising very
gradually for a couple of candles, and
| then decreasing very gradually, but
never reaching the initial candlepower
which is about 145 candles, even al
the end of 1000 hours. The color Of
the light, an important feature, is said
| to be quite white, compared to that oil
the ordinary incandescent lamps which
as everyone knows has a decidedly vel
lowish tint.
The most interesting feature Of
naval construction now commanding
the attention of the Great Powers, is
the submarine torpedo boats. France
is far in advance in this new and move
! line of coast defense, and has COM
| pleted, and under construction, large
| number of these vessels. 1t is very
generally conceded that an American
| fnventor-Holland- devised the
| most complete craft in existence, the
most effective for harbor and coast
defense The United States will have
eight of this type within the next
twelve months, and it is expected that
Congress will provide for twenty OF
thirty more at the present session
| England has five Hollands under con
tract. and the indications are, she viii
in the near future add large number