Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-26
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MOSTREAL claims to have made about ST.
o00,000 by her ice carnival
Ut takes $50 turns 81 the crank to wind The
clock ID Trinity -teeple, New York.
CHICAGO journalists are trying 10 find out
what Eastern people mean by the 'wild
West"
III Lord Derby fails to meet the Australians
half way and gave them q federation, they
say they VIII stop buying any more oil hlr
make Of hats.
FREQURsT reports Of trouble between Rus
sian merchants and the Chinese appear 10 the
London papers. They may foreshadow fur
thcr Russian military movements IN central
Asia.
OSE az tine propositions advanced By Paris
workingmen Is that all deDt= to foreigners
shall De declared cancelled, and that no in
terest shall De paid on the national debt for
ten years.
..No less than 81 1900 pounds 81 Japan tea,
says the New York Sun, ''haye been sold at the
IMPORTERS and Gr0ccrs' Exchange 10 the last
two dave" such speculative start may
prove that what - one man 3 drink Is another
mans poison
OSE Of the things that adds TO the social
fcrment IN Washington il the presence Of
Young woman who has the entree to good
houses but who has been circus rider and
otherwise eccentric. OF course there u no
bar sinister between good breeding that goes
ah0rscback or aiOOt, bat women viii talk.
THE Albany Inn Record, which has been
making q collection d queer names from the
law reports for future publication, is moved
b. uri1t one in advance ar a peculiarly odd
-uecimen. This b. Napoleon X. oyster, which
occurs in a recent divorce case 81 oyster 81.
oyster. .abivalyes who could not live together
in peace
The constitution Of Montana, just com
pletcd by the Constitutional Convention,
among other things, prohibits railroads from
discriminating between towns and individ-
ual- f0rbid= any state official or legislator or
member Of hs family receiving railway
ua.- rive. the ballot 10 women on school
matter, a. well a. the right % hold school Of
fees and prohibits the employment Of chill
dreu under il.
The Christian EHto1 sees no reason why
churches should not sell reserved seats for
single Sundays, inasmuch a. they already sell
reserved seats for the season. The notion
was suggested by the Writcrs experience in
taking his family 10 hear popular preacher,
when they had 10 wait until all the pew
holders we're seated before they could get
seat-, even when the usher8 knew That the
seats were 10 be unoccupied.
Az application Of photography which j.
likely 10 play a very important part IN book
illustration, has been patented. The inventors
have given the name Of "LuxOtypc" 10 q pro-
cess whereby a block, etched and engraved On
zine. can be- produced by the joint aid 81
photography and machinery, and used like an
ordinary wOOd-cut on printing press. Both
draughtsman and engrayer arc thus dis
pepsed with. By the new process very beau
tiful work can be produced, and IN pOrtraiturc,
figure groups, or landscape, equal success j.
attained.
ALEARNED Bostonian writes: although
the indians did not know how to swear when
the white men came, they soon learned 70
.wcar. and had sufficient words ia their Ian
guagc for the purpose. Eliot, IN the lndian
Bible uses the Indian word Osh my fatherr
for Creator etc, and the early missionaries,
when addressing the Indian, used Gosh your
Father The Indians soon saw lhat that was
the necessary word for profanity ana adopted
it, Gosh Is IN use to some extent now, ana
perhaps some piOus people who say Gosh are
not aware that 10 is downright swearing ~
the Indian language"
THERE Is danger that Chicago VIII soon
lose its position as a great lumber distributing
point in the near future. II has been, and is
now, the practice Of the Northwestern lum-
bermen to send their product by water 10
Chicago, there yard IL and await Its sale, but
az buyers now order by mail or telegraph,