The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

0cSAAt II NllEy EdA nave a cdiluNAEl dHu cup
of cocoa for cents or a warm dish for 1
cents.
The United Society of Christian En-
deavor has received an official statement
of the preparations for the first Worlds
Endeavor convention, to be held in London
in the summer of 1900. Arrangements are
being made to entertain 5000 delegates.
The Crystal Palace has been engaged for
one day. and this auditorium can care for
100000 people in comfort, the 200 acres of
ground in and about il giving plenty of
space
Antoine Jackson. a full-blooded In
dian, known Familiarity as "Kanaka Jack"
has been elected justice of the peace for
the reservation adjacent to Tacoma. Al
though he can neither read nor write, he
is said to fill his office with dignity. The
first case he had to deal with, which came
under his notice the other day, was that
Of a man arrested upon the charge of car
rying concealed weapons. The Indian
judge demonstrated that the alleged culprit
could not force the entire revolver in
question into any of his pockets, and,
therefore, dismissed the case. Although
the courts reasoning was not based on
Blackstone and Kent. it was strictly in
accordance with the evidence.
The Joneses are doing very well lately
in official life, says the Chicago Record. In
the Senate of the United States we have
James K. Jones of Arkansas, and John
p. Jones of Nevada, who hold their seats
until March, 1903 In the present House
of Representatives we have w. A. Jones
of Virginia, who succeeds himself in the
next Congress; and William c. Jones Of
the state of Washington, who is succeed
Cd hxra +I,1r. ftaaf toll ara
w. L. The present Jones is a POpulis.
The next Jones is a Republican. Dan w
Jones is Governor of Arkansas, j. H
Jones is Lieutenant-Go Governor of Missis
sippi, A. w. Jones is Northumberland
of Ohio, F. L. Jones is superintendent of
instruction in Indiana and W. d. Jones
is attorney general of Nevada.
THE squirrels of Central Park are just
as aggressive little beggars and as persist
ent as Park Row 'panhandlers, '" said a
4 man who always takes a constitutional
stroll in the park, to the New York CORE
spondent of the Pittsburg DispatchA Il
think have personal acquaintance with
nearly every one that lives in the park,
and all are consummate little frauds. l
always carry a quantity of nuts in my
| pockets and have lot of amusement in
feeding them. Last fail I noticed they made
| a DlS IuSS ABOUT DuTylES lilc NUS anu L
thought they were laying by a supply for
the winter but l found they were only
'jolfying' me. The little rogues are 10
used to being fed by the public that they
make no effort whatever to find the buried
nuts and depend entirely on charity for
their food
Notwithstanding all our boosted civih-
cation and the efforts of the Thirteen Clubs
how few there are of us who are not in
the inmost recesses of our hearts afraid
of the simple number 10, says the Phila-
| delphia Times. Deny it as we may, an
| unpleasant emotion arises in us if I'M
Willingly we sit down to dinner where
| thirteen people are TO eat. This number,
| however was not always regarded as IN
lucky; in fact, there is plenty of evidence
| in the folklore of many ancient Oriental
| peoples to show that in olden times it was
| held as lucky number. The history Of
| the Persians, the natives of India, and of
| the aboriginal Indians of our own West
| ern continent, amply proves this fact Bib
| lical students also well know that in Tes-
| tamentary times the Jews We're of the
| same opinion in regard to the mystic num-
Der. Thirteen cities were especially dedi-
| Gated to the priestly tribe; thirteen high
priests descended from Aaron; thirteen
| kings sat in the high Council of the
ohNlCitSs piSpdl dtfOtlS iOi tLG lSdSL OF the
| Passover were begun on the thirteenth day
of the month of Mizan, and the holy in
| cense consisted of thirteen different doors.
| Among the long since extinct tribes of
| South America, the number had a sacred
and divine meaning, especially among The
ancient Incas and Aztecs. The Inhabitants
| of Peru counted seven days without anv
| particular name, in the week Their wear
| had seven times fifty-two days, or four
A Fa+
| PEELED to support his chill to the thir-
teenth year. The Aztecs had weeks of thir-
! teen days, each with a special name Their
| century had fifty-two years, or four times
| thirteen. Their public archives were of
circular form, with a sun in the center Of
each of the thirteen parts composing II
and their tribes numbered thirteen. II is
an interesting fact, and one well worth
| looking up by any American boy. that
several of the great events of orr history
occurred on the 18th of the month and
more especially on a Friday.
| "A consolidating electrical engineer. who
was asked by the Pittsburg Dispatch to
put one of the less common electrical
terms In plain language, said: Il am fire.
| quently resorted to for Just such exnlana-
lions, and nothing surprises me more than
the haziness which still exists in the minds
OF even intelligent folks in regard 10 ~,
simplest electrical terms, says the ST
Louis Globe-Democrat. ITO most peonle
the electrical units are still mere Greek
and comparatively few go to the tronble
to take hold of the more common of them
such as volt 'ampere.' resistance and
! 'electro-motive force and fix their mean
ing, once for all, in the mind A man who
! knows me only by reputation wrote To
me the other day that he had done this
with much satisfaction to himself, as he
| has now far more intelligent idea of cleo
trical doings than he had before. But
still, he said, from time to time some
electrical words creep into the daily press.
which conveyed nothing to him. He men
| toned as one of these, the term 'watt
hour Now, this is quite simple. The
watt is The unit of electric power II
means the power developed when APPS foot
pounds of work are done per minute. or
1875 foot-pounds per second foot
pound is the amount of work required TO
raise one pound vertically through dis
lance of one foot. When this is figured
| down so as to be defined in 'horse-pou,e, p,