The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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concerned. His size is No. II "A re-
markedly narrow shoe for even man OF
ordinary size.
"A plan is now said to be under con-
sideration by the British government Tor
the lighting OF the pyramids by electricity
and the installation of an electric power
transmission plant Of 5000 horsepower.
The plan involves the erection of a power
generating plant at the Assouan fails on
the river Nile and its transmission over
distance of 100 miles, through the cot
ton growing districts, where, it is thought,
the provision of cheap power from this
source will permit the building of cotton
factories. Part of the scheme contem-
plates the lighting from this source of the
interior corridors OF the pyramids and
also the operation of pumping machinery
for trrigating large areas of desert lands
along the Nile. 1t is also stated that an
American company is likely to receive
the contract for this work.
Lake Nchigan's water rushing
through turbing wheels at Lockport, will
furnish power to supply the current for
the electric lights needed by the city to
light the streets of Chicago, if present
plans are carried out 1t is planned, says
the Boston Transcript, to have the city
Chicago which are nearly Identical so
far as the taxpayers are concerned, 90
into partnership for the purpose of trans
forming the wasted energy of the water
which will escape through the controlling
works at LOckport into electric lights.
City Electrician Ellicott estimates that
1900 arc lights will be sufficient to illu-
inmate the populous parts of the city.
Hydraulic engineers estimate that it is
possible 10 develop 500 horsepower at
a point 400 feet beyond the controlling
works of the sanitary canal at Lockport,
| or enough 10 supply current to nearly 25-
| 600 arc lights in Chicago.
-Tattooing is not confined to the South
Sea Islands, nor to the sailor, nor u the
humber classes of people of the world.
Royalty has barred its ocm to the needle
| that pricks in the colored inks and some
| of the crowned heads are carried above
| bodies that are works of art from a tat
tooer's standpoint. Among European roy
| al personages the Grand Duke Alexis of
! Russia is the most deliberately tattooed
| while the Prince and Princess Waldemar
! of Denmark Queen Olga of Greece, King
! Oscar of Sweden, the Duke of York, the
| Grand Duke Constantine Prince Francis
| of Teck and Prince George of Greece have
submitted themselves to the tattooing nee
die, which is nowadays worked on n sim
| pie plan, aided by the galvanic current,
| the genius of the artist supplying the rest
of the operation. All the above-named roy
al personages together with the Duke
| of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, have been
| more or less deliberately tattooed. Prof.
| Riley is the artist who has done the great
er part of the work, and his work has been
| pronounced by a celebrated Royal Acade-
mician TO be the finest work of that kind
in the world, and no other artist has tat
tooed more distinguished people.
Interesting statistics of child growth
are presented in the annual report of the
New York Juvenile Asylum, in an ex-
tensive anthropological investigation of
| 1000 inmates, says the New York letter of
the Philadelphia Ledger. OF children with
Incorporate, criminal, insane and disso-
lutte parents, 60 per cent We're inferior in
their measurements, and they are burden
ed with numerous and physical abnormal
tiles While this class of children are
usually committed at an early age for
destitution, they show the largest percent
age of persistent bad character. Out of
1000 children examined, 1O5 We're without
bemish, so presented an excess of abnor-
malities-that is, the physical condition
was bad; in sos, medium. Among the
more frequently occurring serious abnor-
=
! shaped head, low forehead, pigeon
breast and hernia. Abnormalities were
found to be more numerous in males than
females, especially those abnormalities ac-
quired by habit. While children possess
a larger number of Unborn Irregularities,
while in colored children those acquired
predominate. In general, the irregularl-
? ties are the result of neglect and malnu-
triton. OF the parents of these 105 per
feet children only two persons were In
temperate, two persons insane and two
persons deserted the family. The criminal
or vicious children, so classified by Their
! commitments are not physically inferior
as class, having fewer abnormalities
than the average"
t M. Castor Maspero, the well known
French Psychologist, has recently written
an interesting article on the 'speskine
) statues" of ancient Egypt, saws the phi.
, adelphia Press He says the statues n,
2 some OF the gods were made of iojntef
parts ana were supposed to communicatt
with the faithful by speech, signs anC
other movements. They were made ~
/ wood, painted or gilded. Their hands coulf
= be raised and lowered and their head,
moved, but it is not known whether theil
= leet could he nut in motion. When one OF
I the faithful asked for advice. their or
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ssonally long speeches were made. and a
other times the answer was simply ar
inclination of the head. Every tennDle haf
priests whose special duty il was to max,
these communications. The priests did no
make any mystery of their part in tn,
proceedings 1t was believed that n,
priests were Intermediary between the. god
and mortals, and the priests themseIve,
had very exalted idea of their calling
They firmly believed that the souls n
divinities inhabited the statues. and the,
always approached them with reIigiou
fear and reverence. These priests Womb
stand behind the statues and move the,
heads or hands or speak for them. neve
doubling that at that moment their move
ments and words were inspired bv the Al
vine spirit dwelling in the statues Tn
statues were regarded as so verv nucl
alive that in war they shared the fate o
those people whose deties thew were
They were taken prisoners, condemned +
death or given into slavery-in otba
words, placed in the temples of The con
quering gods. If they were returned +
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