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Havana's burial customs just returned from Cuba, has been exhibit- 

 ing a sample of white tanned Spanish sole- 



The dead poor are treated with scant leather suitable for heels or soles of ladies' 



consideration in Havana, for the custom ^j^^ men's shoes 



up to the present seems to have been of ^his leather has attracted a good deal of 



interring the bodies of those very poor ^t^^ntion, being pronounced by experts as 



without either coffin or shroud, into a ^^^ ^^^^-^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ y ^^at has been 



ditch with other corpses. ^ ^ ^ ^^^^^ 



The city council is working a reform in , r .u- i .u i • u • i •*. 



this matter and has asked the Bishop of "?f ^e of this leather, which is snow-white 



Havana to provide separate graves for each ^^^ through, obviates the necessity of paint 



unfortunate. The council will provide '-'^ stains. ^ 

 coffins. In the event of the Bishop proving 



obdurate to the request the council pur- FIRE IN SAGUA 



poses to place a tax on the cemetery from ^, , , ■ t c ^■ 



which it has been always exempt. The telephone concession of Santiago 



passed to the possession of the state on 



*" August 14th, when the twenty years of the 



NEW TANNERY IN CUBA concession expired^ The concession was 



granted in 1893 to Sr. Luis Berenguer. Ihe 



The representative of the Superintendent government will likely now lease it out to 



and Foreman of Boston, Mass., who has the best bidder. 



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