Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-03-02

AN Ohio physician is preparing a medical |
lexicon in forty-two languages.
BROOKLYN people are once more discussing |
the advantages and drawbacks Of annexation /
to New ork.
FOUR kegs Of powder were found in the
garnet of a church at Canton, Ohio, and the
police are trying to find out who put them
there.
A LEADING authority in the far West an
nounces that 1.-THE fashionable thing in female
slim waist"
IL WASHINGTON TERRITORY the women on
jury which was deciding a case concerning
a disreputable cellar saloon won the men over
to conviction.
Mrs. GEN. LANDER writes to Forneys
Philadelphia Progress that the New Pension
Onice viii be used for the next inaugural ball.
But a deal of bawing through the canvass
and election Will come on first.
THE Merv Gas is a patch of irrigated
country about sixty miles square. II contains
a number Of towns and villages, and three
ruined cities which we're built and abandoned
successfully. Alexander is said to have
founded the first of them.
THE Temple of Jerusalem. writes a special
Paris correspondent OF the P5{ot, is to be re-
built by the combined efforts and contribu-
tons OF twelve American mlllonaires, two of
whom have already gone to Palestine to study
on the spot the most efficient means of putting
into execution their gigantic and costly pro-
jecJ.
DOMINO parties are fashionable entertain
ments i'll Boston, the ladies but not the gentle
men wearing masks. At one entertainment
Young gentleman was flirting desperately
with domino, when TO his astonishment the
voice behind the mask said. "Why, Bobby,
where did you learn such frightiul thIngs?"
The domino proved to be his mother.
THE present terminus of the Russian rail-
way in Turkestan is Askabad. This ancient
town is the junction Of caravan lines from
Persia to khiva, and from the Caspian to At
ghanistan. 1t is near Geek Tepe, the fortified
! town captured by Gen. Skobele6 on Jan. a,
| 1881, in battle by which the most warlike
| of the Tekke Turcomans were reduced to Rus
/ sian rule.
| PROF. FELIX ADLER is at present inspecting
/ the sanitary and the general condition of ten
! ement houses andtheir inmates in New York.
4 This is but preliminary step to his proposed
1 plan of erecting improved tenement houses
/ that will, by a system of yearly reserved rent
4 payments secure to the tenants gradual IN
( terest in the property. Twenty thousand dol
+ lars have already been subscribed towards
/ this reform movement.
/ A small piece of resin, dipped in the water
which is placed in a vessel on d stove, says one
| who knows, VIII add a peculiar property to
the atmosphere Of the room, which viii give
4 great rGIICI 40 persons Jr0uDlCU with q cough.
I The heat of the water is sufhclent to throw of
the aroma of the resin, and gives the same re-
I lief that is afforded by a combustion of the
resin. 1t is preferable to combustion, because
1 the evaporation Is more durable The same
I resin may be used for weeks.
PARIS is regarded as the foremost in the
absolute provision for manual training in
connection with primary schools. Overa hun
| bred schools in the French capital are now por-
vided with workshops. At present they turn
! out articles of wood from planning benches
| and lathes. 1t is proposed soon to add iron
to the material to be operated upon. This
/ manual training is an addition to the ordina-
ry studies of a primary school; the boys APP
| pear to like it, and it gives a new form of
| activity to their minds and valuable exercises
| to their muscles.
ENGLISH society is successfully combating
the system Of late hour parties, which n the
| long run proves SO detrimental to feminine
| beauty. The London leaders of fashion have
| introduced q series of entertainments called
| "Cinderellas,' which, being interpreted.
means parties that end exactly at y o'clock.
No matter what may be going on at the time,
whether a may waltz or stately cotllion.
the rule is memorable that the dancing must
cease when the clock sounds the hour o. mid
night. The festivities begin at an early hour,
no elaborate supper is spread, and with the
detrimental late hours and late rcpasts put of
the way, the English bellies hope to preserve
their good looks
THREE Ciiictldu young women publicly en-
Draced the Jewish faith at the Plum Street
Temple, Cincinnati, on Friday evening last
Two of them are engaged to be married to
Jews and the third is already the wife of a
jew, having married him about a wear ago
/ against the wishes Of her parents, who are
| Roman Catholics and represented to be very
/ ilv monrned him as one dead after MS mar
riage, but he has been reclaimed by them
since his wife expressed desire to embrace
| their faith, and she Will hereafter be a mem
Der of the family and be looked upon as \
/ Jewess.
A WASHINGTON lady is credited with one Of
the smartest sayings seen in print for some
time The story goes that gentleman who
is occupying his elegant leisure in wasting
handsome fortune and leading his son into
/ ways as vicious as his own, recently suggested
to his wife the necessity of retrenchment.
! I'VE might rent one of roOms,' he said
I 1t wouldn't be dlfhcult to find somebody who
I would be out a good deal, and there is no need
| for the neighbors to know anything about it -
If we are going to rent a rOom," his spouse
| returned with cutting emphasis, ''what do
| you say to letting it to a milkmanY He would
| not trouble you at all, for he'd go out in the
morning before you and Harry came in"
A PASSENGER on the train on the Colorado
| Central Narrow Gauge Road, which was
blown bodily from the track by the wind on
Saturday IAorning last in Georgetown, Col .
! thus describes the event: eve had gone but
1 when the wind bore down on us with ire
I mendous force. The cars began to rock and /
told the conductor, who was standing beside
I me, that we were going over. firmly grasped
| the seat, when felt the car rise in the air and
then turn over. We came down so hard that
/ / lost my grip, and found myself somewhere
in the roofing, with several others. The car
took fire, but all made their escape by scramb-
ling out of windows and doors, and the flames
were speedily extinguished." There were
fifteen passengers on the train, and all were
| hurt, but none were Killed.
IN ILLUSTRATION of the quality with which
| Gen. Gordon has to deal, it is related that in
1921 Ismail, son OF Mehemet Ali, the conqueror
of the Soudan, was ordered by his father to
collect the tribute due from the tribes of
! Bedouins of Shendy on the Nile, half way be-
/ tween Berber and Khartoum Ismail sum-
/ moned cheftain known as the Tiger, and
told him to furnish a large amount of forage
/ and fodder in lieu of a money payment. Next
I morning Ismail and his troops found with sat
isfaction piles of the stuff demanded placed
around the camp, but their satisfaction was
| shOrt-lived. The stuff was soon set on fire.
and those not burned were picked of by men
lying IN wait behind the burning piles. Me-
( hemet, to avenge his roasted son, RACED the
| town of Shendy, but the Tiger made tracks in
good time into the businesses of the interior.
THE printing world OF London is much dis
turbed by the discovery of a new process
which enables any numb er of copies to be
taken of any book, even; the oldest, without
!
discovered which may be spread upon a page
without in the slightest way iniuring the
paper, and which refuses to rest upon ink IT
can be easily removed to a stone and there
becomes the matriX for STEREOTYPE. or can he
psei1 - ~, ",~intine from st 49, Practical
printers are experimenting to see whether
they cannot save the cost Of Fesetting old edi-
tons, and, if certain practical difficulties are
removed, there VIII be a change not only in
the production OF fac SMILES of old books but
in the reproduction of new ones. 1t viii be
no longer necessary to keep type standing as
proof will be as good as stereotype plate.
THE latest novelty in Paris is a private cir
Gus, which is owned and managed bv M.
Melier. Phe arena, which is as large as that
of the public establishment OF the same kind
in the Champs Elysees, presents the appear
anee Of the square of some Spanish city, the
spectators occupying places at the windows
and on the balconies of the surrounding
houses, and the effect is heightened when, as
on the first night, these balconies are crowded
with the prettiest women in the capital, es-
cOrted to the evenings entertainment by the
most distinguished representatives of the
Paris clubs. The troupe is composed of anna
| tours, professionals being excluded, and in
cludes a number of horsemen and horse
women, gymnasts and clowns, nearly all of
them N. Molier's own pupils. The proprietor