Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1888 — Tales of Many Cities. [ARTICLE]

Tales of Many Cities.

Savannah is now the largest cotton port in the JJnited States and Norfolk second. Jerusalem is rapidly growing as a trade centre. One hundred thousand dollars’ worth of objects of devotion in mother-of-pearl and olive wood are exported to America and Europe every year. Vine cultivation is being extended, and the price of land has risen sixfold within a few years. A company in Paris is being prepared to supply cabß with [electric lights, aigrettes for the heads of the horses and the coachman and footman, and exterior and interior lanterns for the cabs, says the Paris Register. The accumulators are very small and portable, and will furnish a brilliant light for from four to six hours. An Austrian Pompeii has just been unearthed near Zara. Zara is the Capital of Ihe Austrian Province of Delmatio. Thousands of coins of the Diocletian period and of ether early times, rare specimens of Grecian and Roman sculpture and Byzantine architecture were discovered along the Dalmatian shores. temples, catacombs apd other evidences of a busy and highly civilized community were unearthed •