Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-04-10
The Beflin most Office has adopted the

The Berlin post Office has adopted the
practice Of sending an agent around to
pay money orders. AS a result one car
rying s., 900 has been robbed and murdered.
Charles G. LOeber, of Buffalo, claims to
have invented a ship for aerial navigation,
and he proposes to construct a fleet of
ships and to start on an aerial voyage in
July next.
Durand Clay, the most distinguished of
French sanitarians, says, in an address
just published. that the only practical
way of disp0sing OF a sewage is by using
it in irrigation.
In New York forty thousand women
and girls support themselves by their own
labor and eighty thousand other women
maintain themselves and their husbands
by manual labor and by brain work.
Three-hundred pound sturgeon are
found in the Sacramento river and the ar
tificial propagation is seriously talked of
on account of the rapid growth of the eX-
pOrtation Of the caviar.
Baron Krupp, the great German iron
founder, and the manufacturer of the
celebrated Krupp gun, is probably the
largest employer of labor in the world,
his industrial army numbering forty thou
sand people.
Largs Bay, South Australia, promises
to be the future fashionable watering
place of the colony. New post and tele-
graph stations have recently been erected,
and the pier is to be enlarged by 1000 feet.
At a recent execution in Japan it took
thirteen strokes of the sword to decapi-
tate the criminal. The edge of the instru-
ho1 11- la1 order
to make the death agony as great as pos
sible.
The enormous sum of 10000, 100000 is
said to be invested in railways in Great
Britain. Some of the engines weigh forty
five tons. and take a load of ninety tons
at a speed of from forty to fifty miles an
hour.
Owen Lovejoy's historic press, which
the foes of abolition threw into the Missis-
sippi at Alton, ILL.,, is now in the posses
sion of an Iowa editor, who offers to eX-
change it with the Illinois Historical So
ciety for new power press.
At st. Helen's, Australia. large poster
ornaments the window of shop in side
street with the startling heading, ''Matri-
mOnial Agency" and proceeds to quote
the terms on which intrOductiOns with a
view to marriage will be undertaken.
A corpse of man was found on the
road between San Francisco and Pueblo,
San Jose. To the button-hole of his coat
was tied a tag bearing this inscription:
II shot him because he stole my mule.
John Andrew Anderson, Anderson
Rancho, Santa Clara valley"
Two days after John Quincy Adams
was eighty years old he walked over the
lower Tiber bridge 10 the bank of the
Potomac, and finding that three young
men had placed their clothes on one of his
favOrite rocks, he found another rock and
went i'm swimming.
1t is estimated that the wheat crop of
the present year in the United States will
fall below that of 1882 by at least 80, 600, 900
bushels. Much of the wheat throughout
the Northwest and the West is reported to
be winter killed by the exceptionally cold
weather.
France is the best customer for the
strong, heavy, dark colOred wines of Dali
malta, which are especially good for
blending with worthless kinds from other
countries. England takes about half the
total export of Hungarian wine from
Trieste, and France only about a ninth
part.
Yankee invention bursts out in strange
places. In a single week there were
issued patents to New Englanders for a
non-heat conducting pail, putting-out
machine which no first-class editorial
room should be without, spark arrester
which is thought to he an improvement
upon the original spark arrester-a pretty
girl; and a car-Starter, which, however,
is not designed to supersede the old
fashioned mule.
Some eminent English biologists think
that Wales is to be the new FL Dorado. In
the valleys of Danelltyr have been found
small pieces of gold washed away from
the hillsides. They say if there are mug
gets Of gold in the valley or in the course
Of old river beds, there is gold quartz in
the mountains. From the run of the hills,
the gold reefs in North Wales, if they are
worth working, run from the coast line
across MeriOneth, North Montgomery, a
part of Shropshire and Cheshire, into Der
byshire.
Apples are thus packed for the New
York market: \ basket of high-colored
and medium sized specimens is placed in
the bottom of the barrel as close as posi-
| BILE, with the stems all down, and the
barrel is shaken as often as a basketful is
put in. 1t is filled half an inch above the
chimes, the head is pressed i'll by means
| of a screw, and the barrel is then turned
| over and marked on the faced head, so
that when opened it shows an even and
! uniform surface. Apples thus faced will
! bring from twenty-five to fifty cents more
| than those not faced.