The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-28
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is a cave neat Deadwood, S. D., that
is believed to extend more than ninety miles
into the bowels OF the Earth.
The navy departmentpr proposes introducing
electricity instead of steam for operating
heavy guns mounted on blrrets on warships.
There are two brothers living in the vicinity
Of Chicago who are exciting great deal OF
interest Just now. One is Y years old and
measures six feet seven inches IN height.
while the other who is 20 years old, measures
but four feet nine inches.
Charles E. Norris has Just been arrested IL
Chicago for murderous assault committed
ten years ago. He has travelled all over the
world in that time. and the detective who
started out TO capture him on the uight OF the
assault was the man who made the arrest.
In the Office of the Pail Mall Magazine the
photograph has been put to a novel use An
article is read in front of the receiving fun
mel. and the waXen cylinder is sent to the
printer, who sets it in duplicate machine
and puts the tut c in his ears. He then regu-
lates the speed TO suit himself and sets by
ear instead Of by eye.
A curious case OF kleptomania is reported
from Paris. A wealthy woman, noted for her
wit and brilliaucy, has q mania for stealing
mems hats. She can create a hullaballoo at
tea party or ball that makes things de-
cldedly unpleasant. The hats are Of no posi-
UIo use 10 ner or 10 anyone else, because she
cuts out the crowns as soon as she gets them.
Her malady has been called mania chapeau.
The brain Of the average Chinaman is says
Mr.. c. H. Bond, up to the normal standard as
regards convolutions, and rather above it In
the frontal lObeS. The cross burrows are
more conspicuous than front and rear ones.
The weight of the brain studied by Mr.. Bond
is l, lS2 grammes, or I76 grammeS less than
the average male adult brain of European
nations. The cerebrum is smaller and lighter
in comparison to the cerebellum than is usual.
| FOR the average man the proportion Is 81, to
/; but for this particular Chinese brain it is
only to l, while 1t is 80 to for the chin
! panzee.
During recent severe haiistorm at Vicks-
burg remarkably large hailstone was found
/ to have solid nucleus, consisting of a piece
| of alabaster from one half to three Quarters
of an inch. During the same storm at Bovina
| eight miles east OF lckSburg. a gopher turtle.
! 6XS inches, and entirely escased in ice fell
with the hail Commenting upon this, in the
monthly weather Review, Prof. Cleveland
| Able says that apparently some special local
| WhlrlS or gusts carried the lncloSed objects
from the earth's surface up to the cloud
! region, where they were enCaSed by success
i've layers of snow and ice, until they fell as
| hailstOneS
The Ferris wheel has been a sort of white
elephant on the hands of the owners ever
since the worlds fair. 1t paid very well
! there, but since they have not known what to
| do with it. 1t is now proposed to take it to
| New York and turn it into sort of gigantic
elevator to carry people to a roof garden and
| skating rink which viii be the highest in
! the world. The plan is to erect the wheel as
| it stood in Chicago Outside of the wheel and
| trellis work will be four steel columns. These
columns Will run closer together as they
| ascend until the top is rea he'd, 300 feet,
! where steel platform 20 feet square will he
| constructed Ascending from four corners of
| the platform will be four more steel columns,
n n ~ II tn amir fnrr
protected by railing. which will serve as an
! observatory. In summer the platform Will be
open and used for roof garden. in winter
it will be closed in with glass and heated with
steam. Mr.. Ferris believes the platform will
be sufficiently large to allow room for a stage
and an orchestra when it is desired to use il
| as a roof garden.
Russian papers, including several of the
| best known journals of st. Petersburg, an.
nounce the death near Charkon of a farmer
called S. Suckosof, who was 100 years old
He had lived, they declare after invesrga
ton, almost his entire life on the same estate
| Among the numerous proofs of his great age
| was his marriage certificate, dated in the
| reign of Catharine IL. the history of Char
kow he knew almost from its foundation until
to-day, when it is one Of the chief places of
| South Russia. The old man related with es
peclal pleasure historical incidents OF the
last century in which he had spent almost
fifty years Of his life. Among recent events
he included the war Of 1872, and the ascension
of the throne by Emperor Nicholas in 1924
/ The incidents OF the Cr1mean war in 1884 81
| were almost unknown to him, as from 1850 on
he had seldom left his country home Among
his pleaSanteSt memories were his visits tC
St. Petersburg, where he saw Empress Cath
| arine II, EmperCrS Alexander and Nicholas
| l, and the famous statesmen of those days.
including Suvarow and Potemkin. He was
present when Potemkin laid the fOun datiOn
! stone Of the town of Ekaterinoslow.
The report Of the director of physic al train.
|
year has some interesting statements in re-
gard to suffering among school children
saws the Boston Transcript. After remarking
that the suffering habit almost always pro
| ceedS from lack of control of the breath from
speech on the part of the subject, the report
goes on to say that efforts to cure suffering
are largely wasted unless the central breath.
ing muscles are at first set right. Success
full treatment begins with gymnastlc eXer-
| else OF the breathing muscles, and later deals
with the development of normal habits of &C
ton, first in the muscles of phonation and
then in those OF articulation. In other words,
| successful treatment IS the application of the
principles of physical training. 1t is safe Ia
say that out of every 1000 children in the
Boston schools, seven Stutter or Stammer.
OF all boys in the schools, liz per cent. are
Sufferers, while only ~ per cent of all girls
Stutter This IN accord with observations OF
European experts, who say that three OF
four times as many boys as girls stuttel
habitually. Boston SchOolSA show a smaller
Russian schools.
A series OF very wonderful experiments
which have just been concluded by DR.. Luys
of Paris, whose observations and discoveries
in connection with magnetism and electricity
in relation to hypnotlsm made a profound
impression upon the scientific world some
time ago, has led to a remarka BILE result saws
the London Telegraph. The latest discovery
establishes the fact that the cerebral activity
can be transferred to a crown of magne tiZed
iron, in which the activity can be retained
and subsequently passed on to a second per
son. Incredible as this may seem, Or. Luys
has proved its possibility by the experiments
Just referred to. He placed the crown which
in reality is only a circular band of magnet
lied iron on the head Of a female patient suf
fering from melancholia, with a mania for
| sclf-destruction, and with such success was the
experiment attended that within fortnight
the patient could be allowed 10 go free with
out danger, the crown having absorbed all
her marked tendencies. About two weeks
afterwards he put the same crown which
meanwhile had been carefully kept free from
contact with anything else, on the head of a
male patient suffering from hysteria. com
plicated by frequent recurrent periods OF
lethargy. The patient was then hypnotized
and Immediately Comported himself after the
manner of the woman who had previously
worn the crown. Indeed, he practically as
sumed her personality ana uttered exactly
the same complaints as she had done. SINH
lar phenomena have IL is reported, been 90
| served IN the case Of every patient expert
mented upon. Another experiment showed
that the crown retained the impression &C