The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-03-05

digestion. For fifteen years l have no.
ticed the excessive number of deaths
on Sunday, yet l have never heard
any one give reason other than
have mentioned"
In making paper car wheels, 100 to
$50 layers are put together with -four
paste and subjected to a pressure of
500 tons while at a temperature of 120
degrees Fahrenheit. The blocks are
then turned in a lathe, slightly larger
than the tire, and the hole is bored
for the castiron center. In turning,
the paper blocks make a shaving that
resembles strips of leather. The aver
age life of the tire of a paper wheel
is about 100000 miles. That represents
about one and one-quarter-inch wear.
The centers do not seem to be affected
by service, and they are always good
for renewal of tires unless some acct
dent happens to them.
the income-tax statistics of Berlin
for the year 1903 show that the high
est income returned by single in
dividual amount to over 1850, 900 marks
S704,762); the next highest was over
-2,115,0O0 marks ($622, 619). The tax paid
on these incomes amounted, respect
lively, to 118,400 marks 1898, 095) and 1914
600 marks ($24, 905). In Berlin the NUM-
cipal taxes, which are assessed through
out Prussia with reference to local
necessities, amounted to exactly the
same of the income tax. The two
highest incomes given above were the
only ones in Berlin which amounted
to more than 100000 marks ($476.O00)
, year, but there were thirteen taxpay-
ers who returned incomes ranging be-
| tween 100000 and 2,O00,00 marks
&25S,OoO and $476,00O), thirty-three
whose income ranged between 100000
and 100000 marks C$119,00O and $685.
0OO), and 621 who had incomes between
100000 and 100000 marks 1923, 800 and
$ll9, O),-Consular report.
Most supersttions relating to the
moon have to do with the weather,
says the Chicago News. Besides, there
is the superstition that sleeping in
the moonlight, especially if the moon
be full, induces insanity. BY the word
"lunacy" this belief is expressed.
Farmers believe that the moon exer-
Cises certain influence over vege-
tatlon, and that beans should be plant
ed when the moon is light and potatoes
when 1T is dark. Many believe that
change in the weather will come at
about the time that there is a change
in the moon. Prof. Pickering points
out that since the moon changes every
7TNCii anu d Hall udyS every CndHBe
IN the weather must come within four
days of a change in the moon. AS
seen by different persons, the size of
the moon varies from that of a cart
wheel to silver dollar. To many it
seems about a foot in diameter, from
which Prof. Young concludes that to
the average man the distance of the
surface of the sky is about 10 feet.
1t is certain that artists usually repre-
sent the moon much too large in size
in their paintings. Occasionally they
represent it in evening scenes with
the horns turned downward instead of
upward, whereas they must always
point away from the sun. The true
angular size of the moon is about half
degree, so that 1t can always be
concealed behind a lead pencil held at
arms length. Probably even in pre-
historic times men have noticed the
face Of the imam in the moon" Plu-
tarch noticed it, and even wrote
whole book about the face in the moon.
But besides this, many other objects
are supposed to be visible. The dark
markings on the surface are likened
by the Chinese to a monkey pounding
rice. In India they are said to resem-
Bile a rabbit. To the Persians they
seem like the earth's oceans and con-
tinents reflected as in a mirror.