The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-02-15

quite hoarse At the end Of the play she re-
ceived some applause. Not at all fun
And so he Is slwsys-laconic, 70 the point,
and usually original and vigorous in his IAN
Ruage- The modern would-be refOrmer OF
FEMININE headgear may almost despair when ne
reads the following plant and sees that the
good fight has been going on for century. MI.
T. turns one OF his dramatic criticisms intoa
complaint against the love or dress shown Dy
the female theater-goer, and winds up with the
or my part these iadles nay sys.t Te-s
as nigh as the masts Of a man-ot-war, II they
would only appear with them at such places as
the theater."
Our editor, who understood the reproduction
Of town talk so well, bad number of colabo-
rators who received no remuneration from MIN.
mat however. is an experience shared oy more
than one modern amateur scrboler. But We
are further told that these contributors actually
paid we'll for the privilege OF seeing their emu
slons IN print. Even at the beginning OF the
Christian era, when all matter intended for
publication" had TO be reproduced IN writing
oy whole regiments OF educated slayes-even
khen we md the prototype OF the modern daliy.
BESIDES the "Acta Senatus," a sort or Roman
congregational Record, there appeared regularly
In Rome unofficial, independent journal,
With the title, ''Acta POpuli Romant Diurna."
TINS popular newspaper, to which senators,
orators lawyers, poets and writer's contributed,
was gotten up pretty much on the same plan as
our present papers, although the editorial duty
seems % have consisted in the arrangement OF
the manuscripts rather than in any revision OF
the same Political articles ('leaders'O and
news OF the day, local notes, notes on the thea
ter and the circus, curosa, book notes and an-
nouncements of all kinds, corresponding 20 our
advertisements. filled the columns OF this paper,
which was widely circulated in all the Roman
provtnces-in Britannia and Hispanla, in Africa
and Ashland which enjoyed considerable IN
fuence.
DR.. Won Brachelli, the statsticlan, has pub
hshed some interesting information as TO the
number OF letters, newspapers and other printed
matter read in Europe. The number reached
ten IQiliardS in 1SS3 The number of letters
written by nation does not, however, bear
any strict relation to the number of papers 1t
reads. Thus, on an average every Engllshman
writes AZ letters per year aud reads papers;
the Swiss gets "a letters aud q periodicals; 10
Austria there are IL letters and papers per
man; in Germany % letters and Il papers; in
letters and paper.
Japan, although 1t has so many papers-the
number Is put at 2,OO0 including Punch and
Judy, pair Of comic papers-still keeps up
surprising censorship over its newspaper press
At least, 80 it appears from a bit OF news that
reached US two years ago, and according TO
which an article In NOht-NIppO gained for the
editor of the paper and the writer of the article
a sentence of about four years in the peniten-
tiary, two years of police supervision and over
500 fine each. The article Ia question poked
fun at the festival held in memory of the found
ing of the empire by Jimmu Tenno, a1d stated
that, 'inasmuch as the time of Jlmmu Tennos
reign was one of slavery for the Japanese peo-
pie, the latter had no special reason to indulge
in manifestations of delight" The two oriental
journalists who had SUCH proud conception OF
the liberty of the press promptly appealed,
but probably with little success.
In 1899 a VienneSe genius even conceived the
noble idea Of filing long felt void by the
founding Of bimonthly devoted to the inter
estS of prospective married couples. Appropri-
ately sentimental editorials and fe1uiLgt0nS
formed the principal reading matter. Notices
of engagements and marriage were printed
gratis, on the understanding that, in making
purchases the business houses advertising in the
would "a npfENnlgRn trpRnTn-
mendable hotels for couples on their wedding
trps'' were 1acluded in these ads" Useful
hints for those about TO marry were given in
plenty, and, in order to leave nothing undone. a
humorous department was established in which
appeared all manner of amusing stories OF
contugal life, for the pessimstic individuals who
might consider the r engagements as hasty and
regard the uncertain future Of the married
state with heavy hearts