The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-04
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

I Charles p. Curtis. Jr. who succeeds
I Albert 7. Whiting as the new police COM
missioner OF Boston, is Harvard gradu-
I ate and a lawyer, and Of a blue-blOod fam
7 lily, but Of popular address and q public
7 spirited citizen.
The most precious Of all crown jewelry
IS owned by the maharajah of Baroda.
I he possesses a necklace of FIVE rows of
ulannondS, increasing IN size from a pea
/ 10 a walnut There are so diamonds in
/ this necklace. whose brilliancy is further
increased by two rows OF emeralds above
and below the diamonds and of the same
size This necklace is thought to be
worth over 81 600 900. while the other
jewelry owned by this Croesus is est
mated at more than 100000
A woman reporter has interviewed sew
erat notable women as 10 their prefer
ences in gems. Nine. Patti declared for
diamonds, though she added that the opal
with its blush tint exercised a great
charm for her. Mrs Frederick Wander
bit put diamonds above all others. and
admitted that she greatly admired moon
stones. Mrs. John d. Rockefeller favored
diamonds, pearls and amethysts. these
/ three. but believed If she were forced to
choice she would declare for pearls.
Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt said that
pearls were her favOrite gems. while
Mrs. William -Astor thought that of all
stones the diamond was certainly the
most beautiful.
"A curious and interesting case
of dual brain action is de-
scribed in Brain. An insane patient va
In one state ne was subject TO chronic
mania, spoke English, was fairly intelli-
gent and was right-handed; in another
state he was subject to dementia was al
most unintelligible, but what could
be understood was Welsh, and he was
then left-handed. In his English inter
walls he remembered clearly what had
happened in previous English periods, but
his memory was a blank as to what oc-
CURED during the Welsh stages. He pre-
ferred to write with his right hand but
III N en- rrrrf+a wit
left hand, and then the writing was from
right to left. Mr. Bruce, who observed
the case, infers from it that the cerebral
hemlspheres are capable of Individual
mental action, that the one mentally ac-
tive at any time can control the motor
functions. and that the patient lives two
separate eXistences during the two stages
through which he passes, the mental i'm
pressions in each existence being recorded
IN one cerebral hemisphere only
"A curious settlement of curious peo-
pie has been discovered in the mountains
near Delhi, n. Y. There are about 200 of
them. They are called "Rushers," and
| live on a branch of the Delaware river
called the Popple, which has its rise
in the mountains not far from Delhi. The
colony has no communication with the
outside world, and, far up the steep and
! rocky mountain sides, it is so entrenched
that Its existence has been almost for
gotten. Nearly all these people are af-
I Hicted with some deformity caused by in
termarriage for many generations and
hair is unkempt and their faces are a deep
yellow in color. They possess instinct
rather than intelligence. and even the
faculty of speech is lacking. The history
of this strange tribe is said to extend back
to 100. 1t is said that a man named
shannon settled in the wilderness of Sui
hvan county. He had three daughters.
one OF whom lived with an Indian hunter
named Jacobs. Shannon was killed and
ms two remaining daughters joined the
elder sister and became polygimous con-
Df or
large family. and these "Rushers' are
supposed TO be their descendants.
In the Tayntor granite quarry at Barre,
", IS what is said to be the largest der
rick IN the world. The dimensions given
show mast of ninety-nine feet in highr
held by ten guys, each running out about
2OO feet to heavy anchorages, and the
boom can swing around a circle 142 feet i'm
dlameteri being built like a mast of
Phoenix columns, such as are used i'm
structural iron work in buildings, the
lOauS are nolSted by means of a steel wire
rope one and n fourth inches in diameter
the boom itself being handled with a rope
or three-quarters of an inch diameter
over a mile OF steel rope is said to have
been used in rigging the derrick. lie
weight exclusive of rope reaching about
nfty thousand pounds. 1t is operated by
means of a hosting engine. and so skill
fully are all the parts designed and aG
Justed that pull of three hundred hounds
az the end of the boom will revolve the
whole appliance when the boom is hort
zontal and loaded with thirty-seven
and one-half tons The derrick is said 10
nave been tested with load of flfty-seven
ana ohe-half tons, although designed for
the carrying of only forty and in case
or the ropes being heavy enough the re-
mainder of the apparatus has sufficient
strength 1t is claimed, to carry loads of
eighty tons.
One of the most curious burial customs
sun existing in Ireland and in Somerset
shlre, England, is that of placing salt upon
the breast of a corpse as soon as il has
been properly laid out" on the cooling
BOARD says the St. Louis Republic In
england, where the custom still prevails
among people who boot the imputation
OF being superstitious, 1t is claimed that
II is done in order ito prevent air from cor
ing int? the corpse and thus swell and
Dloat 1t. Campbell and Moresin hofb
reIer TO the practice as a survival of old
Tune superstitious burial rites They
quote largely from ancient writer's to
prove that early Christians all regarded
salt as an emblem of immortality and
eternity and that on such accounts it was
anciently used in the manner above men
toned Hartman is authority for the
statement that the early Germans not on
~ put salt under the tongue of their dead
Du also put little cylinders of rock salt
IN the right hands of the sick as soon as
it was learned that such persons We're
near deaths door. In most
heather countries, where ali
as charm in frightening away evil spirits
and it is alleged that the Patagonians fire.,
quently strange their children to death
out devils.
1t has been enormously assumed by
many people that the late NJ Worth was
the. first man milliner of European repu-
tation. This is a mistake, as has been
pointed out by a learned writer in the
Eclair. The first man milliner of whom
history takes notice, says the London
Daily News was Rhomberg, who became
famous fam in Paris in the reign of Louis
Ky. he was the son of a Bavarian peas
ant. His manner of advertising in the
early part Of the eighteenth century was
to send out carts, the body of which
represented a corset, while the shafts
were made in imitation of pair of taiIor's
shears. The notion got abroad that he
was extremely skillful in hiding little de-
formities of the figure and the vogue he
enjoyed in consequence was immense. Al
though he was but few years in bust
ness, dying at the early age of 40 years
he left a fortune estimated at f4O 900 or
$4,000 large sum for tradesman to have
earned in those days. Under the first
empire his successor was Leroy, who
dressed the princess of the imperial court
At the period of the restoration he lived
IN retirement in splendid mansion in the
Rue Richelieu, where he entertained in
splendid style. Leroy was said 10 he VIII