The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-02-01

| douglass Tender and True" To hear her
sing II once Is 90 carry the remembrance Of
it through ones life Her voice has been
highly cultivated, and is wonderfully sweet.
There 10 a sad romance connected with her
early girlhood. She was enged when
quite young to Jefferson Davis, Jr. son of
the confederate president. and was to have
been married to him 10 a very short time,
when be was stricken down with cholera
and died in a few hours. 1t was great
blow to the young nancss and she with
drew from society and the gay world for
several years. Her family were intimate
friends of the Davis family, and she was O
great favorits with them. Bessie being
the only daughter and the idol OF fond
parents aud brothers - everything that
love and affection and money could do, to
take her mind from her trouble was resorted
to. They Travelled with hsr-and after
much persuasion shs again entered society
She met her fate In the charming DIR. Dew
and Is as happy as mortals deserve to be here
below. Not long ago her friend, Winnie
Davis, daughter Of the late jefferson Davis,
visited Mrs Dow in her New York home.
THE GREATEST OF SAFE DOORS.
One Of the largest, If not the largest,
doors in the country was hung on the Man
haitian Savings Banks vault last week. 1t
weighs eight tons and has thirty-six bolts
that hold 1t when locked. This ponderous
door 10 50 nicely balanced that a two-year-
old cAild can open or close it. 1t required
the services OF sixteen men, an engine and
several jack-screws to get II in place, but the
workmanship at the shop had been so we'll
done that two men fitted and finished the
job In thres hours
1t was from this bank that Jimmy Hope
and number OF his pals stole over q half
million dollars worth of United States
bonds in 1878. Hope has no chance at this
safe.
ACTRESSES DIVORCED FROM THE STAGE
Mary Anderson Navarro will be one Of
the most prominent guests at the balls of
the patriarchs and colonial danes.
Out of the somewhat considerable list of
actresses who have married rich New York.
ers not more than one or two have attained
| the bliss Of entering the fashionable circle,
which makes Mary Anderson's success the
more brilliant The best stage match here
tofore. from the society standpoint, was
| that made be Annie Robe, who left Wal-
lacks company to marry DanierG. Girls
void. The Griswolds are OF the inner circle
| of Knickerbocker society. Miss Robe was
| Scotch girl whose mother was an actress.
There is no shadow Of doubt about the posi-
| ton Miss Anderson has obtained. The
| Navarros ara rich, of noble extraction and
| entirely GU fat in society. Her husband is
| conspicuous in the dancing set.
The sizs OF this climax can only be appre-
| ciattd by those who knew Miss Anderson
l personally In the FIRST years OF her career.
| Reams have been written to persuade the
public that her extraction and breeding
were gentle. but the fact remains that ten
i years ago, and even less, she knew next to
| nothing about the manners and habits of
| people with even ordinary social advan-
tages. Her first photographs witness this
without any other proof. They show the
same beautiful face that has since made her
fortune, bat in posture, expression. and in
the way she carries her dress, they betray
lack of breeding
1t is Just ten years since CHANGED to be
standing one day at the counter of store in
i Concord, N. H., when Miss Anderson-who
had played in the city the night before
aud her mother entered and asked for
/ gloves. Mary selected some Isle thread
ones and her mother objected to them, say
ing; Ladies don't wear Isle thread. Mary. "
| The daughter hesitated, they both looked
doubtful and anxious, and after some de-
bate on the point the order was changed for
| kid. This incident shows how little they
knew of the simplest of dress, and also
| points out the direction of their ambition,
| which has always been social rather than
artistic. Art has been to them a means and
not an end.
TYPE-sRTTING MACHINE POSSIBILITIES.
l Iue iacV THAI uuhy Oh inc great news
paper Offices Of the country are about to use
| the new type-settisg machine indicates to
many minds, o revolution in the production
of books and newspapers almost as great as
that made by the sewing machine in the
production of clothing. Many printers
there are who fear that the art of typog-
raphy will be entirely swept away and that
in place Of human setting machines, there
| " Ill be instruments that will do double the
I yp0r 0q art ma AZ I'd 4F
Practical printers, those who regard ty-
Biography as an arr, are not enthusiastic
over the work OF the machines. While il is
probably true that several of the big dailies
in the country intend to give the machines
a trial in the near future, it il equally O
fact that one great newspaper in New York
city has decided against them. The adop-
ton Of the machine means the sacrifice Of
the typographical appearance Of the paper.
None of the machines can set up more than
one kind of type, and this is In itself great
drawback. All the big dailies in this city
use three, four and some of them more
kinds of type in printing the news. Then
the ability to punctuate with the machine is
extremely limited. and while this is no Z
| necessarily imperative, it is none the less
useful. But it is not alone in these respects
that the machine falls below the work Of
tho average compositor.
Practical tests have proved that they
have not even these merits, as to speed and
cheapness, which their makers claim for
them. A newspaper in this city, which has
used the machines for some time, and which
is not beautiful, geographically, is moi
enthusiastic in support of the machines
There Is inside information to the effect
that they have not eeme up to anticipations
by any means, either in point Of cheapness
or speed
Even should its adoption become possible
there will still be plenty of work for COM
positors. Advertisements and market re.
ports. headlines and tables of every descrip.
ton viii still be required to be set up by
hand. The telephone has not replaced tbs
telegraph operator, nor has the phono.
graph or any other mechanical device oil
taking notes driven the stenogrepher to the
wall. 1t is just possible that the introduce
ton Of a successful type-setting machias
would increase rather than diminish the de-
mand for compositors.
In the other branches of the trade the
effect should be much the same. The idea
is incorrect that any one not having tech
meal knowledge of the printers art car
operate the type-setting machine; so that il
the change should come all the composition
will have to do to prepare himself for the
new order of things is to learn the key
board of the machine, as he did the loca.
ton of the letters in the tease" before. II
the work can be done cheaper, more books
win be published, and people who have