Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-04
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CHINA proposes to adopt the use Of postal
cards on the first dayof next year.
HANDMADE ENVELOPES cost originally five
cents each. The envelope making machine
now turns them out so that a thousand are
sold for thirty cents.
NOTWITHSTANDING the enormous attend
auce at the Health Exhibition in London, the
receipts have, up to the present, only just COW
cred the cost. Profits may now be looked
for.
Iowa brewers, who are not allowed under
the prOhibItOry law of the State, to transport
their liquor by railway, are reverting to the
wagon as a means of supplying the nelghbor-
ing cities.
AN Italian fruit seller has been held to ap-
pear before the Chicago criminal court for as
saulting a small boy who had entered into
negotiations with him for the purchase OF a
scent banana. He had better have spoilt the
banana and spared the boy.
APARIsIAN MARCHIONEss has taken SER
vice in a Marseilles hospital as nurse for the
cholera victims; she is pretty and young,
dresses in plain calico. and has been very use
full She is fulfilling VOW made during the
illness of one of her children.
A SUCCESSFUL ATTENPT has been made to
introduce fresh springbok meat from South
Africa into England at was the most de-
licious meat" writes a correspondent, "that
anv of us had ever tasted, being very far supe-
riOr to English Venison." But that Is not
very high praise.
ITALY does not mean to be dependent on
English rolling mills and steel-plate works for
armor plates, The Venetian Industrial Com
pany. which has a large foundry at Terni,
will shortly begin the manufacture OF the
armOr plates for the Italian navy, which
have hitherto been supplied by English nrms'
The French ironclad lie Richeleu, the flag
ship Of the Mediterranean squa drOn, Is light
ed by electricity furnished by incandescent
lamps. There are $50 of these lamps, besides
an ingenious system of luminous slgnals,wmch
are an fed by a single dynamo Of the Gramme
pattern, directed by steam engine OF great
power.
JAPANESE magic mirrors are in the market.
These are made of fine FURNISHED metal, and
when lightly breathed upon disclose geometri-
cal patterns, landscapes, or faces. Their
manufacture is a secret, but is believed TO
consist in welding the pattern IN one klnd OF
steel or iron upOn plate of a different kind.
One, which reproduced faces, sold al fhlla-
delphia for $40.
IL cosmOpolitanism New York takes the
lead. In clubs, club rooms, and club houses
the following countries are represented: ia
pan, China, Cochin China, Turkey, Russia,
Norway. Sweden. Malacca, hungary, Eng
land. Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Prussia, Aus
tria. France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, SWltZer-
land. Greece. Holland. Belgium, Brazil,
Mexico, Poland. and Cuba. No other me
tTOpOlis approaches this record.
4 CENSUS was recently taken of the swans
on the Thames between Southwark bridge and
Henley. The total number Of swans was 267
and cygnets SO. OF these the Queen claims l76
swans and 46 cygnets, the Winners Company
As swans and Y cygnets, and the Dyers' Com
pany 43 swans and cygnets. The mandibles
OF the royal birds were marked with dla-
mo LEnfUprSf ttnlckSH
couple Of s'V's." and the Dyers' with a single
nick and other Distinguishing emblems.
PARIS tradesmen begin to utilize science for
advertising purposes. a late notice reads:
Tea and coffee contain fannie acid, the es-
sential part of oak and hemlock; milk con-
tains albumen and hbrln IN the same manner
as flesh and skin. Add milk 10 conee ana q
turbidity ensues, Of which each particle Is
tannate of hbTIn. 1. e., an atom OF ieather. IN
a lifetime a man thus consumes IOO palr OF
boots, but no man could thus consume the ele-
giant and scientific footwear only to be found
at Rue dc -"
SOME of the cleverest detectives in New
York are women. They are Of the different
types Of beauty and mind calculated to gain
this or that mans confidence and learn his
secrets One is coquettish, another has a
deeply religious exterior, yet another is a de-
lightful musician, sings Wen or sketches /
cleverly. They may be sent % follow up their
prev in Europe. and may even learn 10 love
him. so dangerous is propinqulty-but then
there IS the Nemesis. the fateful report to be
made to ssthe inspector" when they return
Truly singular method of preserving his
torical ruins, says the London Truth, has been
discovered in Ireland. On the Case Hill, near
Belfast. there was short time ago an ancient
castle. In order to protect its ruins from the
ravages OF time and OF passing Vandals' some
local autiquarians determined to surround II
with a wall. and employed a contractor 70 eX-
ecute the work. The wall was finished IN due
course, but when the antiquarians came TO ad-