The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-06
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| siderable skill in this novel art are
rapidly making a fortune. One of
| them claimed to have already tattooed
| $1,000 persons, of whom $500 were
| women. On two of these women he has
done his best work, reproducing on one
with his needle the famous Descent
| from the Cross" and on the other the
"Ecce Homo" He has also drawn
numerous portraits of men and women
and has inscribed many notices in the
| Abyssinian, Chinese and Arabic ton
CUES. Moreover, he has tattooed mar
| riage rings on the fingers of many
| women, who have desired in this way
to give proof of their eternal fidelity
| to their husbands. Automobiles being
now in fashion. several persons who
are fond of this new sport have had
| their carriages tattooed on their arms
and 1t is even said that in some cases
| the name and address have been add
ed, with the object of providing ade-
quate marks of Identification in case of
| accidents.
The modern city street car, which
was enlarged from the size of the old
horse car as soon as electricity was in
| PRODUCED as a motive power, has con-
| tlnued to grow ever since, says the
Philadelphia Record. Whether the
| limit has at last been reached even
| builders of such vehicles do not know
themselves. 1t is principally a ques-
ton of the sharpness of the curves in
the track and similar scientific prob
lens, but 1t does not appear that it will
| ever be made big enough to give all
| passengers a seat. The newest car
with the seats crossways and with a
short stretch of seats at each end run
| ming lengthwise are already as long as
the first steam railway cars were, and
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| Guesses at the cost of these vehicles
would probably all be below the real
| figure, which is about $1,000. This
| nearly all goes into machinery and ma
terial, for the making of the cars is
| carried on, on large scale while mon
ey is saved at every possible point.
| The life of such a car depends on the
service to which it is put, but they all
wear out rapidly.
In working out the problem of his
perpetual calendar, says the New York
| Press, Robert c. Stanley made the fol-
lowing interesting and instructive dis
| coveries: No other months of the same
year ever begin on the same day of
| the week as May or June. Fourteen
combinations of months according to
| the day of the week on which they be-
| gin) cover all time-seven for common
| anu SEVEN 1OL leap years. 1nGSG COIl-
limitations are all based on the day of
the week on which Jan. occurs. These
| combinations are repeated at fixed in
| tervals, Jan. l beginning on the same
| day of the week every eleventh, TWEEN
| ty-second and twenty-eighth year;
| that is, combinations for common years
do this. Combintions for leap years re-
| peat only every twenty-eight years.
| This year the 29th of February oc-
| CURED on Monday, and it will not do
/ so again for twenty eight years. Twen-
| ty-eight years form a cycle Of years,
| and the months then repeat themselves
| in the same exact order in regard to
| the day of the week on which they
| begin. OF course, the end of a cen
fury which is not leap year disturbs
| this circumlOcution.
"A man who is connected with the
circus was speaking the other day about
| the fascination of the life. says the
Philadelphia Record. Few people who
| have tried the circus like any other
| life," he said. Not long ago a young
man asked for a position. 1 gave him
some work among the animals. and
although he was both cultured and re-
| fined, he seemed to find a great pleas
ure in mingling with the performers
and being among the animals. After a
while he grew very i'll and asked to be
| sent home. His home was in Chicago,
and when he went off l never expected
| to see him again. Some weeks later l
| received a letter from his father telling
me his sons history His rowing ten
| denotes had been a source of sorrow to
the family, and in the letter the father
begged me not to give his son employ
ment again, as he had good opening
for him in his own office, where there
| were excellent prospects. Inquiry re-
vealed the fact that the father was a
wealthy man. 1 had scarcely answered
the fathers letter when one came from
the son, which although 1 answered it
in a discouraging way, brought him on
| to the East again, and to-day he is still
with us. eking out a miserable exist
ence as a keeper of wild animals.
DIR. Madison ]. Taylor. giving gen.
eral advice to the aged in the Popu-
lar Science Monthly, says in effect
that old people do not stoop because
they are old, but they get old because
| they stoop. The stiffening of the It's
sues, which is the sign and accom-
| paniment of age, is warded off by ex-
| ercise. Self-indulgence in eating and
in drinking and in lazy ways is the
sure road to senility. II have often
| been surprised and gratif1ed,' writes
| the doctor, ito find that regulated
| movements of the neck and upper
! truncal muscles, employed for the pur-
pose of accomplishing something else,
resulted in a conspicuous improve
ment in hearing, in vision, in cerebra-
| ton and, as a consequence, in better
ment in cerebral circulation, also in
sleep Persons who habitually main
| tain an erect position in standing or
sitting are stronger than those who
J SLOUGH. A person who stoops and al
! lows the shoulders to sag down and
| forward and the ribs to fall back to-
ward the spine shortens the ante-pos-
| terror diameter of the thorax any
where from two to five inches.
! The lungs, heart, great vessels and
| other important structures in the tho
rax cannot live, move and have their
| proper being under such circum-
| stances" Wherefore, the proper thing
| for persons who are not so young as
once they were is to brace up, dress
young and feel young. Sitting
'hunched up" over fire won't do.
-Road-legs have to be acquired as
much as sea-legs, says the Lancet,
and in the various forms of locomotion,
| from the jolting omnibus to the quick
| stopping tube and air. braked trains,
| frequent opportunities arise for esti-
| mating the varying amounts of agil-
! ity, clutching of stay straps and COM
| pensating bodily movements made by
the cognoscenti in the particular class
| of vehicle of which they are for the
! time pndeaVOring form an iptaoraI