The Savannah morning news., 1901-08-17
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

natured Harry sometimes got hold of a
hard earned quarter and on other oc-
casions he earned little change in one
of the ways open to small boys. Now
Harry Cochran, who has yet to cele-
brate his sixteenth birthday, has a
guaranteed salary of $4,000 a year.
with the further certainty of earning
enough in addition to make his total
annual income $25.000 OF course, young
Cochran is a jockey. He has been rid
ing horses less than year and half.
and has made a record which far
eclipses any made in their youth by the
famous Tod" Sloan or the Reiff broth
ers. His greatest hit was made on the
Lakeside track in Chicago, where he
rode fourteen winners, eleven second
horses and thirteen thirds in exactly
ten days. William C. Whitney pays
him a retaining fee of $4,000 a year at
present, and his father, who travels
with him everywhere, keeps him in
rigid training, and sees that the boy
does not get into bad habits.
The newspaper men of Boston, says
the Boston Herald, always had warm
regard for the late lilly Haynes, and
heart for all of them. Many were the
hAhhlACSoCo AAiaL lC pei PCbi dlCQ hliOo-
tentatiously, but none was more appre-
ciated than his annual custom of en-
PERTAINING newspaper men on Thanks
giving day. He appreciated to the full
est extent what that day and it's ac-
companying dinner meant to men OF
New England, and he also knew what
ii meant to be cut off from any of its
festivities. Many newspaper men were
always prevented by the nature Of
their profession from getting to the old
home table on that day, and to these
Mr.. Haynes always sent invitations,
through the city editors, to join him
in at least that much of the days OBJ
servance as was covered by the dim
ner. The dinner, always presided over
by Mr.. Haynes himself, was of the
genuine New England variety, and
there were always many things in con-
nection with it that brought joy in
abundance to the away-from-home lot.
While literary biography, says
Henry F. Keenan, in Literary Era for
August. almost invariably represents
the writer as going through a purga-
tory of privation until he strikes the
note that evokes popular response, the
French law courts constantly reveal
the fact that a certain race of writer's
find instant market for wares that are
never heard of by what may be called
educated people. Within the last seven
years disputes among heirs in France
have brought out the fact that Xavier
de Montepin, Emile Reichberg, and
several others of the same lack of liter
airy rank, died leaving estates running
up into the millions. They wrote what
is called feuilleton, literally leaves for
daily journals. Now no matter how
high the standing of the journal in
France, and in continental Europe, for
that matter, the feuilleton is quite the
most important contribution to the
daily issue. 1t is only very rarely that
even the high-class journals venture to
print the romances or novels of the
standard authors. Once the Petit
Journal of Paris, which has a circula-
ton of over million copies daily, de-
termined to raise the standard of its
feuilletons. 1t had been publishing the
inventions of Reichberg, and, dropping
him, secured a story from Jules Verne.
Within ten days the circulation fell off
eighty thousand copies. Then a study
was made of the matter. 1t was found
that even the hardest worked poorest
paid folk of the cities and country
could be depended on to take a daily
paper if there were a story running in
its columns. But they demanded a tale
of poor heroes, or any of the romantic
situations once thought essential to a
story of what was called adventure"
One of the many absurd and inju-
rious fallacies connected with the use
of alcoholic stimulants has been, it
may be hoped, effectually disposed of
by the authoritative announcement of
the most eminent English medical men,
says Leslie's weekly This particular
fallacy is that cherished by many as
to the efficacy of whisky or brandy as
germ-killer when added to water
supposed to be infected. The whisky is
assumed to sterilize the water and
make 1t germ-free. This, it is declared,
is absolutely untrue. Whisky will do
nothing of the kind. Some organisms
will live in alcohol of nearly rs per
cent. strength, which is considerably
over the strength of most spirits con-
sumed. The common alcoholic strength
of whisky is about 40 per cent, of
brandy AZ per cent, and of rum not
usually more than so per cent. It is
quite certain that microbes can live
and thrive in the ordinary mixed
drink of whisky and-water, the aver
age amount of alcohol in a tumblerful
of whisky andwater, in the proportion
10 or IL per cent. PSYCHOLOGICAL inyes-
legations have shown that most germs
are not affected by liquid containing
% per cent. of alcohol, while their cor
responding spores are unframed in SO
per cent. alcohol. Alcoholic drinks.
therefore, cannot be regarded as effect
ual destroyers of microbe life, and. fur
Their. bacteria after time seem to get
accustomed to alcohol and to become
proof against any antiseptic action that
II originally may have possessed. The
use OF alcoholic liquor as germ-killer
has no more basis in scientific reason
or in fact than the use of the same
liquid as a protection against extreme
heat or cold. 1t is a clearly established
fact that for people suffering from ex
tremes of temperature in either direc-
ton Few things are more harmful than
alcoholic stimulants.
Monte Carlo is about the last nIaca
in the world which you would exnect
to experience hard times, such a fate
being reserved for the people who GO
there to encounter Dame Fortunes
Frown. Nevertheless there is no gain
saying that business is bad at Monte
Carlo JUS now. says the London Ex-
press. Not that the roulette and tren-
te-et- quarante tables lack patrons, but
the fact is that a number of the pa
irons have taken to winning largely.
thereby upsetting all the banks calcu-
lations. certain Baron is said to
have won $4,000 this season, and his