The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.
TIE analysis Of the brain Of the late Laura
Bridgeman has been carried on at Clark Uni
versity under the personal direction OF Presi-
dent G. Stanley Hall, and the report shows q
slight variation from the brain OF an ordinary
person This di Terence is the apparent expla-
nation Of Miss Bridgeman's lack q sight, hear
ing and speech There is shrinkage and de-
formity noted in those parts Of the brain which
are believed 70 bear direct relation 70 these
faculties.
A SHORT DISTANCE out from Buena Vista. Cal,
there Is cave literally swarming with spiders
of a curious species of immense size. some of
them having legs four inches in length and
body as large that of a canary bird. The
cave was discovered in December, 1879. and was
often resorted to by the pioneers, who obtained
the webs for use in place of thread. Early and
late the cave constantly resounds with a buzz
zing noise which is emitted by the spiders while
they are weaving their nets.
IT Is NOT violation Of the bylaws and CON
stitution to say that the pumpkin pie that Mrs.
John Robinson fetched to US was a whale A
big, sweet pumpkin pie on Christmas day says
the Brockwayville pa Record. is like meeting
al old Pennsylvauian away out in California
after you haven't seen q man in two years that
knows there is such a state A fat pumpkin
PIE is holiday treat any day. and good one is
deserving OF all the credit tuat can be given it.
And the women who pumpkin pies make grow
where none grew before are benefactors the
race
THE Marshal Ney myth, so dear to North
Carolinians until it was smothered under the
| weight of evidence, is again revived and seri-
Gus advanced by Rev. James A. Weston, an
Episcopal Clergyman of Hickory, n. @. He is
firmly convinced that Peter Stuart Ney, the
drunken schoolmaster who died in North Caro-
Ina torty-five years ago. was the veritable mar
shall OF France whose execution is infinitely de-
scribed by Vaulabelle, Bourrienne and Mont
holon. Convinced himself, this clergyman has
written and published book to convince others
| that Peter Stuart and Michel were one and the
same.
THERE is an old graveyard in Clarke county,
Ca, which is held in superstitous fear by the
| neighborhood. One story about it is that
| rabbit has taken up its home there and burrows
in sunken grave. The boards covering the
| grave have rotted leaving a cavern extending
| into the grave itself. For long time a rabbit
| has used the den as a lair, ami can be seen at
| almost any hour entering or leaving the cavern.
| Time and again the hunters have sought to kill
this particular rabbit, but it is like firing at a
sun ray. The little qua 1ruped seems quite
| tame, and will invite a near approach OF the
| sportsman, but upon the discharge of bis gun
/ Brer Rabbit bounds off unframed. And no
dog, either, can be found to chase the rabbit
/ any distance. They will run il few yards,
and then return to their owners with
| mystitied look and their tails dangling between
their legs.
The NATIVES on some of the Pacific islands
being provided with neither metals nor any
| stone harder than the coral rocks, of which the
atelIs they inhabit are composed, would seem
| badly of, indeed, for material of which to
| make tools or weapons, were 1t not that their
very necessity has bred an invention no less in
| genious than curious and effective. This is
| nothing less than the use of sharks teeth to
give cutting edge to their wooden knives and
| swords. The mouth of the shark contains 300
| teeth, arranged in five rows, all closely lying
| upon each other, except the outer row, and so
constructed that as one tooth is broken or lost
| another takes its place. The teeth are not
only pointed and keen-edged, but are finely
| and regularly Serated, so that the emitting
| power is greatly increased. Indeed. so great a
| faculty have these teeth for wounding that the
| implements and weapons upon which they are
| used have to be handled with great care. The
| Kingmill islanders make many strange articles
| OF sharks teeth.
EMPRESS EUGENE has just now moro worry
and trouble than she can well stand. Comte
| d'Herisson's book, recapitulating the old story
concerning the prince imperial and Miss Lottie
watkins, and accusing the mother of having
| been, so to speak, party to her only son &
| tragic death in Zululand, has caused her a great
dea of useless pain. 1t is a cruel shame to have
| opened SO many old wounds in the heart of a
woman who If she has not always acted with
| Judgment, has suffered enough during the past
| twenty-five years to eXpatiate much greater
| wrongs than have ever been hers The en-
beavers made by her lawyers to recover from
| the French government the 1900 600
francs constituting the assessed value
+ the furniture belonging to Napoleon ILL.,, de-
stroyed by the Communards in 1870 II, is also
| imputed to her as crime. The government
accepts the finding of the court, but demands
| with sardonic humor, who is going to enforce
| the pay ment of the money? 1t would certainly
| have been better if the empress had deSiSted
| from thus drawing attention to herself this
| moment, for she is exceedingly wealthy, being
| the owner of great pine forests in the "Landes, d"
| which bring in large revenue, while she also
| inherited the very considerable fortune belong
| ing to her son, of which he himself never re-
ceived cent.
THERE have ibeen eighteen great financial
| crises during the last century and quarter,
viz: In 1863, at Amsterdam, originating with
the house OF De Neufvilie, and involving sew
| enty-seven failures. The failures in Holland in
| 17i3 exceeded Sl0, 900. In 1893 in Hamburg
there we're eighty-two failures, involving R2,-
100000 There was panic in Liverpool in the
same year, which was, however somewhat
mitigated by parliament lending $500 900 in
exchequer bills on goods In 1914 240 banks sus-
pended payment In England. In 1925, at Man
chester, failures ACQUIRED to the amount of
e2000,O00. The Calcutta failure of 1881 in
volved Els, 100000. The wildcat" prices in
the states in 1887 caused all the banks to
close. In 1889 the Bank Of England was saved
by the Bank of France A panic in France
during the same year caused ninety-three com
panies to fail tor the sum of &60 900. In 1874
crisis in England brought about the reforma-
ton OF the Bank of England. The English fail
ures of 1S47 involed 820, 100000. During the
great panic of 1857 in the states 1900 houses
failed for 8112,0O0, GEO. The Overend, Quincy
|
involved failures costing upward of e100 900, 600.
| BLACK Friday" in Wall street, was on Sept "a
] 1859. The shoe and leather trade crisis in Bos-
| ton, U. S. A, in 1853. caused losses amounting
to over co, 100000. The Grant & Ward failure
in New York city in 1884 involved many finan-
cial and business houses and a loss Of over
&5.000,0O0.
IN the mountain districts of Pennsylvania
two wrens had built their nest under the caves
of an old farmhouse. They lived together har.
moniously and caught the early worm, and in
the course of time had a family. Among the
attaches of the farmers household was white
cat, and when the wrens became so tame that
they used to hop around the piazza in search of
crumbs that were daily thrown to them, the
cat, in murderous spirit, would lie In wait for
them, and several times came within an ace OF
catching the old birds. When the farmer
noticed this he kicked the cat whenever she was
detected in her murderous work. 1t didn't tai G
the cat very long to learn that it wasn't healthy
| to fool with those birds and that they were as
much part of the family as she was. Toward
| the middle OF the summer, when the baby
wrens in their nest under the caves were big
enough to place themselves in peril by clamb err
ing around the nest, one of them one day fell
out and, in spite of its frantic lutt 9rings, came
? to the ground, and being too weak to run and
unable to fly, lay helpless in the grass Toe cat
!, saw the accident, and. following the first in.
stincts of her kind, ran rapidly to seize the
bird. Before she got to it, however, she seem ed