Telegram-herald., 1888-09-06

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have crossed tbs Bre0kiya bridge siuoe q
opeasd ave years ase. Its rssapts from ali
sources have Soen sAS@s. soT Its tst.l cost
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Fss sorne time EAST . movement has been
a. progress IN - Louis hooking 10 the IN.
PRODUCTION Of the penny into general use IN
trade aao business IN thai city Hitherto
the uiekei has boea the smallest coin in
ordinary Use there
1Hs Iasaaa Archafset. Of Chicago publishes
the plan OF . twenty ght- story building.
which will oe $50 feet IA height. and w,li
occupy plot Of grolad - feet square. II
viii eoRt.iB-TSs rooms, fitted for once pur-
poses. and Will have twelve elevators
THE manager OF New York theatrical
agency says ne could hire q hundred ira
gedians within an hour for ten dollars a
week and expenses. The supply was never
50 great nor the demand 50 small, and there
j. great deal Of absolute suffering IN con-
sequence
MoRE than half q million immigrants en-
tered our ports during the fisc..l year lust
closed, exceeding tho influx OF all previous
years except 1881. lSo2 and 1888, when the
tide Of immigration reached its highest
mark. Four lfths of the number arrived
81 New York.
THERE have been twenty-five Presidents
OF the United States. five Of whom were
elected at fifty-seven. and six attained that
great Office before the age of fifty Three
military men, past sixty, have been elected.
Two died very soon, and the other was
General Jackson, and he Was but slxty-one
when elected.
A STATEMENT has been prepared at Chi
cago showing that IA, ,525, 239 words of press
specials and other messages were handled
at the Chicago Office OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company during tue week from
June 70 20 5 inclusive while tho Republican
National convention was IN session. This
is an average Of 2.055,03f words for each
day, Sunday included.
lT will take ;. 200 books OF gold leaf 10 gild
the DONE of the Boston State House Each
book contains twenty sheets OF gold leaf,
each sheet containing a ahttle over oJS square
inches The sheets are so thin that .O0O OF
them lcid one on the other make but an inch
IN thickness. The gold is within a carat OF
pure and weighs 81 pounds troy Each
book Is worth seventy cents. so that tho
gold leaf alone costs S4.032 II will take
fifteen skilled workmen six weeks to do ths
job.
GREAT BRITAIN is the greatest maritime
nation IN the world according to the latest
reports. The total tonnage was 6, ,336, 900 in
1877, and in 1885 was 1891 900 tons: the
steam tonnage alone had risen from 2,OO0.-
600 tons tn s, ,9S9, 900 tons. Those years were
years Of depression, and during them the
total tonnage entering and clearing at the
ports Of the Kingdom rose from 4o50O.0oO
tons to b3, 10000 OF the whole amount -
per cent was British. The country which
approaches nearest in shipping is the United
States, but all OF this il done in foreign
ships. We have no merchant marine. aud
Americans are compsiled TO depend upon
other nationalities 70 carry THAR r,roduc-
tious. This should not be- There was a
time when we had merchant marine; but
to-day what ships we have are not sea-