The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

"A COCO many members OF congress
and others in Washington regret that
Senator Hanna is not keeping house
this winter Last season the senator
used to give corned beef hash break
fssts, which were the delight of those
favored with invitations. This winter
Mr.. Hanna will live in one of the
Washington hotels.
The limit seems to have been
reached in Chicago hold-ups in the
robbery of a certain Jacob Hanson
which occurred a few nights ago. 1t
| has become a commonplace that any
one in Chicago venturing out after
nightfal does not know whether he
will bring his purse home or not; but
until Mr.. Hanson had his experience
it was always believed that a man
would be certain of wearing his shoes.
Mr.. Hanson was unwise enough,
| though the night was cold, to go into
a saloon to get a drink. The hour was
comparatively early. He had his drink
and started for the door, when he was
stopped by the proprietor, the bar
keeper and another man, who took his
watch and what money he had with
hlm-about IS. That was only the ex-
pected, and he did not complain. But,
| having rid him of these luxuries, they
d
his shoes, and compelled him. to walk
home. in his stockings, with the Their
| mometer lodging around the zero
point This so excited his wrath that.
he went to the police the next day
and had the men arrested.
The theory that there are small
living bodies, as spores of bacteria and
the like floating about in interstellar
space, finds support in the observa-
| lions and speculations of an increasing
number of scientific men. T. D. A
| Cockerill, in a letter written from Las
| vegas, N. M, and printed in a Lon
| don scientific paper, suggests that
| these might be carried up by atmos-
| pheric or perhaps by electric currents,
! such as produce the aurora, so far as
| TO allow them to escape into space.
| Commenting on this suggestion, SIR
| oliver Lodge says in the same num-
| Der of the journal: Il suppose it not
! impossible that the dust of space may
| contain life germs of some kind. / do
not think the suggested bombardment
by electric corpuscles sufficient cause,
though electric repulsion might some
times act, and it has been suspected
that the earth may have a faint come
! tary tail; but no such action is needed
TO account for the existence of cosmic
dust of any kind" With the living in
| habitants of the earth continually re-
inforced by immigrants out of inter-
stellar space, there is increased as
surance of the perpetual ton of its gen.
| erations, with the unlimited process
sions of the void to draw upon through
an unlimited procession of ages"
The Toxic Times tells story of
the providence of the japanese which
is further reaching than is common
in other parts of the world. The bank,
Dai-ichi Gingo, in 1900, received a de-
| post of $4,000 which will remain fixed
for $50 years from Goichi Abe, dealer
| in coal and coke at No. Minami
Shimboricho Nichome, Kyobashiku,
| Toxic. The bank has contracted to
pay the sum of 1,20S, All, 17s yen at the
| end of 250 years, dating from 1900, in
| elusive. The father of the depositor
was a 'riskishaman, and he himself
was an iceboy some twenty years ago.
! His mother died. and he was employ
ed as an errand boy for the next six
years by different masters. Mean
While the father and the son did not
know of each others whereabouts. 1t
| was only by accident that the son read
| in a newspaper that his father, who
1 was named Ki-ichi Abe was employed
by Mr. Soichiro Asano. The son
| searched for his father, and was able
to find him out again. After this the
1 son was given a situation in Mr..
4 Asano's establishment Lately the
father lost a ship Che had become rich
enough to own a ship in storm. The
ship had been insured at $4,000. The
! fact of the insurance was unknown to
him, for the policyholder was the son.
| But the father and son settled be-
/ tween themselves that the money
/ should be deposited on behalf of their
! posterity, and hence the long term
| contract.
| The question why professional fees
should be in guineas and not in SOW
ereigns, says the st. James Gazette,
| has been asked often, and no more
satisfactory answer can be got than
1 that it is a survival of days when
| coin of guineas was well known in
| these islands. A writer in the Lady
4 has been looking into the history of
4 the guinea. Sir Robert Holmes, one of
| the most picturesque figures in the an
mails of the Isle of Wight, was really
responsible for it. Half soldier, half
| sailor half English, half Irish, wholly
| loyal to the crown, the merry, stall
wart, filibustering hero was equally
/ popular with both the Charleses, and
I
| Charles II. Sir Robert it was who in
1866 captured a golden prize in Schell-
| ing bay that consisted of bullion and
| gold dust from Cape Coast Castle, in
| Guinea. This rich prize was coined
| into gold pieces stamped with an ele-
1 phant, and to commemorate the cap
ture these pieces of money were called
guineas. Sir Robert seems to have mad
| plenty of these golden coins. At Var
| mouth, Isle of Wight, so long the site
| OF the Governors house, shrimpers and
| lobster catchers still look out for the
stray gold pieces he was won't to scat
| ter, or that may have been lost or hid
| den in the smuggling raids so common
in his day. The guinea is not nearly
| so antique as many of the coins now
| in circulation. The simple, respecta-
| Bile sovereign is more than a century
older, and dates from the time of Hen
| ~ VII. The guinea displaced it, but
| sovereigns were recoined in the early
part of the last century, and soon after
that they completely ousted the guinea
piece.
Comparatively few people realize of
what remarkable speed dogs are cap
| able, says the Buffalo Express. Some
remarkable statistics in regard to this
| have been gathered by M. Dusolier a
French scientist. After pointing out
| the marvellous endurance shown by lit