Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-10

GLASGOW has 81, 800 houses of only one
room each.
The abolition of tolls on the New York
canals has brought an immense increase
of business.
ON THE American side, Niagara Falls,
the hotels have not been so poorly patron
lied for years.
THE entire gold production of the world,
according to the latest mint reports, is not
more than $107, 100000 yearly.
VERY informal, not to say promiscuous,
are the Long Branch hops. Anybody can
participate, whether he boards in the
hotel or not.
THEY are becoming more and more
English every day at Newport. Some of
the advanced swells are already dropping
their chs"
HEAVY FROsTs have been the treat re-
Gently at the White Mountains, and a
regular ''hug-the-stove" spell of weather
has prevailed.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR opened the LOUIS
willie Exposition in the presence of 1000
people. Sullivan pounded Slade in the
presence of 10000 people.
THE assessed valuation of property in
the city of New York this year is esti-
mated to be 81 30, 000,0 600, of which $780,
100000 is on personal estate.
ANOTHER IDIOT at Cape May buried
his watch and money in the sand while
he bathed, and now is unable to remember
lust where the funeral was held.
\ CATALOGUE published by the German
Pathological Society enumerate, $50 kinds
of apples. 912 kinds of years, 235 kinds of
l. A.. Of IA. of
peaches. and 81 kinds OF apricOts.
THE largest fire insurance ever effected
in single order was recently taken out
by the authorities of Hamburg on the city
property. 1t amounted to $4,000, 900, and
was divided among fifteen companies.
ATA FAIR in Agram, Austria, where
the privilege of kissing the handsOmest
woman in the town was put up at auc-
ton, the highest bid only reached the UNI
gallant figures of II florins IL kreutzers.
THE Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and
DAYTON papers are publishing editorials
in English. German, French, Swedish,
Polish and Hungarian. and one paper. 1t
is said, has sent for an outfit of Russian
type.
AN IRISH HEIRESS is one of the social
successes at Cape May. She is young
and brilliant cOnversatiOnalist; a bru-
nette with the most bewitching manners,
and dresses with great taste, wearing few
diamonds.
IT Is STILL an open question whether
there is or is not a planet nearer to the
sun than Mercury. The American party
at the Caroline Island settled this ques-
ton in the negative, but the French party
has reached a different conclusion.
THE AMERICAN walk has been criti-
cised from an English standpoint. 1t is
said that we put the heel on the ground
first. while the English and French attain
a superior grace by being taught from
childhood to put down the ball of the foot
first.
A NORTH CAROLINA whisky dealer
wants permission to send the liquid in
the mails in four pound cans, easy to han
die and not breakable. He says it ''will
break up a lot of blOckading through the
country, and throw freight money into
the postal Office
THERE are eighty firms and individuals
in San Francisco who are assessed for
more than 100000 personal property.
The highest assessment of this kind of
property is $2,132, $50. Thirteen persons
are assessed for more than 100000 each.
The entire assessment of personal prop
erty i'm the city is 1914, $50, an increase
OF s. ,S27 $50 over last year.
"WILL New York be the final world
metropoIis:' is a question w. G. COnant
will ask in the September Century and
answer i'm the affirmative with curious
array of facts and arguments. He pre-
diets that before another century passes
New YOrk's population ''will surpass that
of London, and that it will be the unri-
vailed centre of finance and commerce, of
luxury and fashion, of art and literature
the heart and brain, in word, of the
oix-iIizo6 world -