The Savannah morning news., 1901-04-02

So many complaints are made of the
breakage of fragile articles sent through
the mails that the postal authorities have
issued a warning to the public to use more
care in preparing packages
in 1899 the public high schools of the
United States graduated 1884 boys and
1924 girls. The explanation is offered
that the boys are taken from school earlier
than the girls and put to work
The constitution of Texas forbidding
the Legislature to appropriate money for
the relief of Galveston. an act has been
passed to authorize for fifteen years the
use of all the state taxes levied on prop
erty there in raising the grade of the
city.
-Frenchwomen always come to the
in progress. In the recent disturbances
at Marseilles, when the dockmen were
stoning the soldiers, 200 women some with
babies in their arms, took part in the
demonstration.
"A Seattle firm made bid for the con-
struction of one of the vessels for the
navy, but its figures were 100000 too high.
Without delay the citizens subscribed an
amount sufficient to make up the esti-
mated loss 20 the shipbuilding firm and
enable it to secure the contract.
Heretofore tramp steamers have mo
nopolized the trade between New York
and oriental ports, but now line of pas
senger and freight vessels is to be es-
taolished. Eight steamships of 5000 tons
each are now nearing completion on the
Clyde, and viii trade between New York
and India by way of Cape Town.
The postmaster of Cedar Springs,
Mich, has posted the following notice:
"Hounding. hunting, hungry candidates
for township offices cannot open head
quarters in the postoffice in Cedar Springs
to discuss politics. They may pack the
township and the caucus, but not the
postoffice. Loafing is prohibited"
According to the latest report of the
United States Commissioner of Education
the average salary for supervising and
teaching in public schools is in Boston
S,065.T, in Chicago $780,. 03, San Francisco
$S79.27, Cincinnati $S6S.51, Denver 1884 AZ,
New York $S12,O5, Washington $75496,
Pittsburg $705.72, Philadelphia $69S02.
Considering the vast amount of ma
rine trade nowadays it is remarkable that
the sailing ship Afghanistan has just
concluded seven months voyage from
San Francisco to Liverpool without hav-
ing been spoken by another vessel. Not
word was heard of her from her de-
parture till she sailed up the Mersey last
week.
In the Pecos valley, south from Ros-
well to Barstow, Tex, a distance of 40
miles, there will be planted this year
LOO acres of catalogues, with an APP
proximate estimated yield Of 1 LOCO carloads
of the melons, or something less than a
carload to the acre. The crop will be
shipped direct to Chicago and will have
an average carload net market value of
A50-the minimum per carload being $500,
with a maximum of $500.
In a few weeks the government will
take the contract off the hands of the
contractors for the new mint in Phila-
delphia, and then the United States will
have the finest, costliest and most COM
plete money making establishment of it's
kind in the world. The granite structure
was commenced two years ago and will
cost about 81 900, 900, including the mechan-
ical equipment costing 100000. There
will be twenty-four coming presses in
the new mint.
-Cdpt. AuSuSte NduJleT OF the SWlSS
army has invented remarkable camera,
by means of which views at a distance
of GO to 50 miles can be taken. 1t is with
this machine that the Alps en- masse will
be photographed and it is confidently ex-
pected that views hitherto unobtainable
will now be brought within the photogra-
piers reach. Recently splendid photo
graph was taken of the Saints from Maui
borget, a feat never before accomplish
ed
The Cheshire National Bank of Keene,
N. H, has put in a sterilizing oven in
which all the money handled by the bank
is to be sterilized for the present on ac-
count of scarlet fever epidemic The
oven is made of galvanized iron and lin
ed with asbestos, and is heated by means
of Bunsen gas burner. thermome-
ter is provided to show the interior tenn
perature at all times Bills will be steril-
lied by heating to a temperature of 300
degrees.
An interesting matter, from a scen-
tific point of view, in connection with the
death of the Queen is the distance at
which the sound of firing was heard when
the fleet saluted as the body was ,onve ,
ed from Cowes to Portsmouth. Letters in
the sounds of the guns were heard in
several places at a distance of 81 miles,
and that at distance of 60 miles the con-
cussions were sufficiently intense 10 shake
windows.
Senators and members of the House
have left at the Agricultural Department
in Washington thousands and tens OF
thousands of addresses of persons to
whom packets of vegetable and flower
seeds are to be sent One day last week
not less than 200 mail sacks, each con-
tanning 200 packages of seeds, were dis
patched from the Washington postoff1ce.
1t is estimated that the total number of
seed packages this year will amount to
100000. or 100000 more than last year.
Each year the volume sweIls like a roll
ing SNOWFALL
"A gentleman was recently sent by
his physician to Caux, South Montreux,
in Switzerland, for his health, and died
there after few weeks. The hotel in
which he died charged his relatives a
death tax" of 500. The latter remon-
strated, but were finally forced to pay,
in order to obtain the body. An inquiry
into the matter disclosed the fact that a
regular charge Of $500 was made to every
guest dying in this hotel. and not only