The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-12-16
ITEMS OF INTER EST.

hrst word uttered by him since that time wal
spoken some days ago.
The total tenement population of New Yori
city now Is from 100, 900, or only about 5000
less than the city's estimated population. There
are 32,2jO tenements in the city.
A GLOVE SHOP iu Paris has the following an
nouncement posted over the door: Wanted
small hands. Persons taking eight and a quar-
ter size had better not come to this shop"
HADJI SULLIVAN SABA of Constantinople wa
% years of age when be took his last wife, anC
he lived to be 1872 He had sixty sons anC
nine daughters, and seven wives, and survived
them all.
ARTHUR w. MURRAY of Chicago has two
wives. They have been the best of friends
Tor long while but neither knew that tn, tht
other was also the wife of Murray until last
Saturday.
The PRIZE of $50, offered by american Note
and Queries to the person guessing nearest
New York's plurality for President, was won by
! Thomas H. White of Jacksonville. He guessed
1908 for Mr. Harrison. Altogether 2,57t
| guesses were received, divided as follows: Harri
son 1,22S, Cleveland l,245.
TELEGRAPH OPERATORS, it seems, are develop
ing disease of their own. One or two cases
| recently occurred abroad, in which the finger
| nails dropped off, one after another The affec-
| ton is supposed to be due to the constant ham,
| merlng and pushing with the finger ends re-
|
| ment.
| NEW PROCESS in the manufacture OF steel,
| which if successful will practically revolution
ize the manufacture, it is said, is now being
| perfected by Hon. John w. Bookwelter, of
| Ohio In eight to nine minutes it is claimed,
| pig iron can be converted into steel at a cost
| less than by any other known process. The
| new process 1t is further claimed, is particu-
| larly well adapted TO the manufacture of cast
| ings.
| One of the longest inter-town fights ever
known in Maine, was that over the construction
| of the bridge across the Sebasticook river at
| Peltoma Point, between the towns of Pittsfeld
| and Detroit. The movement for the building
| of the bridge began in 1913. The former town
| wanted it; the latter town opposed 1t. The
| fight went on year after year. Every board of
county commissioners was drawn into it. Not
until 1888. when the bridge was built, was the
war ended.
| AN INTERESTING RELIC was received on
| Monday at the navy department in Washing
| ton. 1t was a section, about three feet in
| length, of one of the timbers of the San Pablo
| one of the ships which composed the famous
| Spanish armada, which sailed to conquer Eng
| land $50 years ago. The San Pablo was one Of
| the ships which escaped. She afterwards
| renamed "Navio Soberano' and after several
| cruises was wrecked on the coast near Santiago
| de Cuba, where the hulk now lies buried in the
| mud.
| -, c,.-,,,, 10y -
| ing. Recently city divine preached in the lit
| tie Methodist church of the Village and the old
man became SO excited at one or two home
| TRUSTS IN tue sermon wnlch seemed to apply
| to certain close" neighbor, that he got up
| and shouted. Tnat's right, youngster; hit EN-
| again Anu later on Wnen the sermon ap
pedTeu 10 cohe nome 70 MN, ne crleu out IN
Stentorian tones, That's so, b'gosh. We're all
| sinners, ev'ry burned one of us
| A TOUCHING INCIDENT is reported in connection
| with tho racent wracl near Fngland of tta
r 80 ~ ~ ~ -, 10 1H "nu, Vi INC
t1stre!la ue ouhe. N1en IL was Cnought tnat
ile VeSsIl wa Ioouieu, au aPpIehllcS went pc
crew took to the rigging, most Of them held on
| with both hands, but the apprentice kept one
| hand TO MS east HaVe you got your money
spo,9, 70 a.trsr, e. sa''t NO, re
~ ~ dear ,nother anJ s;Star 7. Poa o s
tbasa he had cone below in an hour nf Ian aoi
' ~ W e ~ Al on oui VI uahSel'
| A BERKSHIRE, ENGLAND, FARMER has lust lost
| a valuable cart colt from n most extraordinarv
| cousa Tia colt half lone, tip,a .tr-,
vary inu,h from difficnitv Of braatIinar u
got 80 ha,;n1, hsar }o,,,j ~ an
~ no n,,rnosa Il ,yae tipali, dasdo5 70 80 WI ga
70 uo ~ "as bni ;, uecuea 70 uaVe IL
severed at the shonlders To the great astoniSh
ment of those present, a fair-sized toad crawled
out or the opening IN the wlndplpe' ana the eX-
i.ao h,aI3a a. onca snodTent Tna suner
| almost red when extricated lint GRADUALLY as
| natural color.
| -
| LARGE ARMY Oh men, women ana children.
| in Johnstown, Pa, gain livelihood by picking
| scraps of metal from the cinder heaDs of the
-, "a steoI ,vorl,s in that cit,, IT. .aeAIIo
49, aS tbarara LnoIrn aTa o,a ~ @ .
pi g. 80 49, eli a. =, go 3 s ,n dsseu
ouu ioot' yIy;tb 49, ~, ~ ~, I'm - SIV " StV
Pc Pc irders ne ,hav &c dun,,e e0s odey uig ~
one ., % ,o 10 f tb NI Gu struggle
ali as If is uncovered Facb nicsr al t "
or her pile of ''cobbes, aud the iron company S
| teams come around at Intervals The driver
1d ,ares he accmnisted rneta 70 Io
| heaps 10 be melted again.
|
| 1T IS ESTIMATED there are now IN Europe,
| Asia, the United States and Canada about fftv
| institutions for the education of feeble. ninded
cueu ho So a. % 3 Ioe says western
;;a III rsctIv ft uin, rronch
Piy i. 49, 3 L. dyy "a 80 SaVe up
u uIl, ~, ca 90 ole s u!nseIi 10 the
~ ~ !, 80 ta,hd thot ;Ji tt'1Ltites. ne
ulscose 90 - $3.50 -; S .iOey - nov Tue re-
sur vi y. VI 70 uoi VI HttlIoraelon
o. - uno .. 1,1 ta,,a $500 uevseopnenI
~ ~ iit CIV h eoaeo, G VI aI.eI orth
~ nIS o % Jo,,aI,at 80 ~ -; oou.eractng
societv about rs per cent. of his nnnils ~
r. .,,r,ar,;so.g Of Gan Froroisoo
sor ,ot,,o 'ad s-o~t, nooueu
WI" ~ Wv. -. .,.I's'-. Acor
reSponuen. "ri'o' .hia' t"o great success OF the
new Powell street line, That crosses town aud
then runs to The Ollff mouse and the ferries, has
stimulated other companies, and the city bids
fair soon TO be grldlroued with cable roads. II
is unfortunate Tor the cltlzens that all the old