The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

IT is remarkable. says the Practical Farmer
that, although new fruits come TO the front
every year, there is not pear yet that has been
able TO take the place of the Bartlett or the
Seckel. The Bartlett is European sort, or
iginating in England, and named there Will
Jams Bon Careden. 1t was introduced into
this country, and its name getting lost it was
named Bartlett, after the man in whose gar
den 1t was when its excellent qualities were
discovered. The Seckel 10 native a
chance ehs seeding, found growing near
and the original tree stil stands and bears
fruit. The Bartlett is in season throughout
september, the Seckel from the close Of Sep
tember and through October. These two kinds
are no exception TO the rule that the quality of
all pears increases In value as the trees get
older. TIE fruit from full grown Seckel pear
tree, for instance, is far superior to that from
tree fruiting fer the first time.
A CURIOUS SCIENTIST. who has been giving
careful attention to the matter, says that man q
sense Of touch, or feeling, resides almost
wholly in the skin and in those parts of the
body, as the lips aud the tongue that are most
exposed. while some OF our most important or
gans, the heart for instance. and the brain, are
quite insenslble to the touch, thus showing that
not only are nerves necessary for the sensation,
but also the special end organs. The curious
fact was noticed with the greatest establishment
for an Abscess that caused a large cavity in his
side found that when he put his finger into
this cavity, he could actually take hold of the
heart without the patient being In the least
aware OF what he was doing. This SO interested
Harvey that he brought King Charles l. to the
mans bedside that The might himself behold
and touch so extraordinary q thing" In GER
tain operations piece Of skin is removed from
the forehead to the nose, and IL is stated that
the patient, oddly enough, feels as If the new
nasal part were still in his forehead aud may
have headache In his nose.
The Hoang Ho has again given fresh proof of
its right to the title of "China's Sorrow" SAWS
the New York Sun. Fifty thousand people have
persisted in the latest overflow. The calamity.
however, is not so colossal as that of 1897 when
several hundred thousand people were drowned.
The submerged district Is now said to embrace
$500 square miles. The largest Of the series of
lakes formed by the overflow five years ago
covered as much ground as has been submerged
by the present floods. It ia a curious fact that
the history of China may be said to begin with
an account of food In the Yellow river over
1000 years ago, when the submerged region
was drained by the great Emperor Yao From
that day to this the great river has
been the cause of constant anxiety to
the government and people. Enormous en-
bankments have been built to hem in the
waters. When tie freshets come an army of
men Is employed along the banks 70 watch for
and strengthen them at any place where signs
OF weakness appear In spite OF their vigilance
breaches occur almost every year and regions
of greater or less extent are inundated. Since
the Christian era began the river has changed
its course six or seven times, and 1t now emp
ties into the sea hundreds of miles north Of its
former mouth. The unparalleled calamity of
1887 was caused by the swollen river entirely de-
sorting its bed, 400 miles from its mouth, and
pouring over dsHsely populated plain as it
breach was closed and the river was returned to
Its old channel
A CURIOUS TALE comes from the west of how
a Kansas farmer dreamed out a Colorado
gold NINE The farmer was A. B. Ell.
lett, whose brother went west after
the war. Elicit heard nothing from the
absent one, but one night about two years ago
he had very vivid dream that he and his
brother were together among some mountains,
which he had never SEEM and discovered won
derfully rich gold mine. He thought nothing
of the dream, but the next night il was re-
peated, and so wildly that ell the surroundings
of the mine and the details of the Landscape
about were printed indelibly upon his memory
This impressed him so that he determined to
write his brother. if he could learn his address,
which he did, locating the absent one, after
deal of trouble, at Prescott Ariz Con-
siderable correspondence between the two fol-
lowed and few weeks ago Elicit determined to
90 to Prescott on q visit. After few DAYS the
two brothers went into the mountains to VISIT a
mine that the Colorado one had worked awhile
and abandoned. When they reached the place
the Kansas man recognized In the surroundings
the details of his vision and. taking pick, he
walked rapidly to the spot where he found the
gold in his dream. He struck the rock a few
blows and disclosed ledge Of white quartz.
about thirty inches wide, thick with free gold
Samples from the lodge are said to ASSAY 81 600
to the ton. Mr.. Elicit says that he had never
seen gold ore before and did not know quartz
from any other mineral
TIE late George William Curtis in his memoir
of A. j. Downing refers to ''The Danskamer or
DEVILS Dancing Ground" grusome spot on
the Hudson. seven miles from the village of
Newburgh. Irving in his History of New
| York." says: Even now l have it upon the
point OF my pen to relate how his crew were
| most horribly frightened on going ashore above
| the highlands by a gang OF merry roistering
devils. friskng and curveting on a fiat rock
| which projected into the river: and which is
called the 'Duyvel's Dankamer' to this verv
day" With the foregoing prologue, says a
writer In the ST. Louis Repttblic, will proceed
| to trace the legendary history and to describe
the present appearance Of this famous satanic
sporting place In Irving's time, judging from
the Dutch name given ths place in the citation
above quoted, it was known as the DEVILS Dance
| Chamber; however, the present generation
The rock lies at the head of New.
burgh bay, near its western shore
and has a level ssurtace OF nearly half an acre
On this rock since time out of memory the In
dians per. ormed weird and grotesque rites
especially in the fall of the year before starting
on their annual hunting expeditions These
semi religious poww we're sometimes
carried on for days together during which timo
the deluded creatures would go through all
manner of face and limb contortions the whole
programme being equal TO the ghost and sun
dances of our western tribes Finally, proba-
bly, after some Of them had become delirious as
a result of such violent exercise they claimed
that the devil would appear in the center of a
devil band" formed by the bowling fanatics
catching hands and making circle around
medicine man. II his satanic majesty appeared
in the form of beast of prey the hunt was all
but abandoned; if a harmless game animal the
apparition was supposed to be a token of good