NEWS BY MAIL.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 September 1902, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL.

SAVED FROM SUICIDE,

MADE HER HIS BRIDE. Paris, July 26. Henry Jeromo, a young American physician who four weeks ago saved a would-be suicide, Jeaunette Desvoir, a beautiful Parisionne, who was crazed by grief because her fiance had been killed in a railway accident, married tho girl yesterday. Dr Jerome alone, out of several spectators! hud the pluck to plunge after her when she jumped from a bridge. He was compelled to overcome her desperate resistance before he could lift her aboard a boat which went to the rescue.

AMERICAN HORSES,

ADMIRED BY GERMANS

Berlin, July 26.

The Kaiser has selected several German army officers to visit tho United States and study horsebreeding and the supplying of remounts to the American cavalry. Tho leading army authorities here have a high opinion of the American army horses, and tho deputation of officers will visit horse-raising farms in both the Southern and Western States.

“JACOB’S PILLOW.”

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. Madrid July 26. The latest report of the Spanish Royal Academy of Paris relates this legend attached to the famous stone known as “Jacob’s Pillow,” now beneath the coronation chair in Westminster Abbev :

■' When Jacob died the stone came into the possession of his descendants, but when the Israelites crossed the Red Sea it was found to bo very cumbersome and was left in Egypt. “ The ruling Pharaoh had a daughter named Secta, who married Hayshekes, a Greek, who had become possessed of the j relic. Secta and her husband left Egypt, and after travelling on the African coast settled in Spain, where they founded the I town of Brigantia on the site of Santiago de Compostella.

“ Years later their descendants emigrated to Ireland and took the stone with them. Eventually it was placed in the Cathedral of Cashel, formerly the metropolis of the kings of Munster, where it was known as the 1 Lia Fail,' or ‘ Fatal Stone.’ “ Tradition says that in 513 Fergus, a prince of the royal line, having obtained the Scottish throne, procured the use of this stone for his coronation at Dunstaffnage, where it continued until the time of Kenneth 11., who removed it to Scone. In 1296 it was removed by Edward I. from Scone to Westminster.”