New-York tribune., 1882-08-17
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GENERAL NOTES.


The eighth annual exhibition Of bees. hive.
and honey, just held at the Royal Horticultural Gar
dens South Kensngton, showed favorable results M
the efforts which have been made IN late years TO sn
ulate Interest in Bookkeeping among poor people a.
an easy Interesting OF profit requiring scarce
any outlay.
When the paymaster's car on the New YorL
New-HayeD and Hartford Railroad reached the Bridge.
port station last Saturday and the employees gathered TO
receive their wages newsboy asked bystander what
was going He told, by way OF a. joke that the
sent around 10 collect money for the boo,
Tbereupon the little fellow scrambled into the car and
deposited hafdoar on the payInasters desk lie "a.
finally convinced that he had been imposed ana aE
ing mp mis- coin he retreated with every appearance Of
disappointment
Mr. Barnum has adopted novel protection
burglars at his Bridgeport home. In addition 70
liberal supply Of tie ordinary Of security he has
had placed the outside OF the house several lare.
goDgs which are artfuy concealed among the exterior
ornamentatOns. To these gOngs attached stout
ropes which pass into various bedrooms upstairs and
down, that any inmate hearing suspicious sound can
arouse the whole neighoorhood without leaving hs
apartment
The Chinese colony of San Francisco cele.
brated the young Emperor's birthday last wees
for the first time Hitherto the anniversary
has passed unheeded, but this year the Chinese
residents were given TO understand, at the
suggestion OF the Chinese Ambassador. that the En-
their loyalty Chinatown accordingly gay with nags
all day and aDaze with lanterns all night. The princ
pal merchants entertained themselves and their inu.
mate friends with elaborate dinner in the evening
and the humber heather paradcd the streets and %
recrackers whenever they could escape the observation
OF the police.
The International Postal Bureau at Berne
has just issued its statistics for the year s79 covering
the twenty-five principal countries belonging to the
postal union. During the year S.200.O0OOO0 pieces
sent by post OF which 1900. 900 900 letters
and postal cards OF the total 1924 100000
pieces credited to Europe 2366OOO 900 10 America
2O5O0O,O00 to Asia, 73.OO0.OO0 TO Australia and
l2,0000OO to Africa Reckoning the population OF the
globe 40OOOOOOO the total would allow SO pieces
Of mail matter per capita Among the nations England
the largest number 15s7 900 900 pieces and Ger
many the next largest 1,2OO. OOO,OOO In the Of
postal cards Germany first, with 1913 10000 and
England followed, with ll4,00O,000
Few industries have been more rapidly do
mestcated in homes during the last few years than
that of slkculture In Hungary its growth has been
particularly noticeable Thus in $780, according an
official report the conmunes where silkworm breeding
was regularly carried numbered only lO9, and the
persons engaged in the production OF silk only ,O59
whereas last year the number OF communes had
426 and the number of producers to nearly 5000
In 1880 the product only 10000 pounds Of
cocosns and the following year was $4,000 pounds
The Government has established model school OF in
structOn and arranged for the attendance OF village
scnOOInasers, who VIII thus be able in turn instruct
their neigbb ,rhOOds. The Government has also
paid for nearly 10000 mulberry trees and Is considering
roads and the open owned by municipalities aud
cOmmunes.