Show d W the mero merchant bant shipping of prussia is 18 now composed of vess vessels fils for foreign trade measuring to together grether tons and carrying men fien and coasting vessels of tons and men forming a total ol 01 0 1352 1112 vessels tons and men the vessels in the foreign trade belong chiefly to memel stettin dantzic and stralsund sund I 1 I 1 el W in the B in ink of eigl md lad no fewer than sixty jolio volumes or ledgers are daily filled with writing in in keeping the accounts to produce these sixty volumes the paper diaper having been previously elsewhere eight men tarve steam presses and two hand presses are continually kept going the batik bank in the copper plate department twenty eight tu usand bink bauk notes are thrown off daily and so ac accurately pura tely is the number indicated by ma chinery cliine ry that to purloin a single note I 1 detection ii ia an iw impossibility 1 thearty Ty oF GLAsGow 1 the ill fated screw I 1 f f J I 1 steamship with its soula goals oh board is at last given up As may be remembered she ehe sailed from liverpool on oil tile the merch with cabin a 9 nd saloon passengers and steerage her crew numbering 76 including eluding itI the commander capt 1 morrison morris m dad and from the period of her clearing the dm J mersey up to the present moment not the least tidings have been hemd heard hem d of her I 1 tile the breake breaking tit up of the immense fields of ice to the northward of the bank which were borne down I 1 the atlantic in mas masses 9 es it is said of some or milars in length no doubt overwhelmed the vessel in an attempt to force 4 a passage and caused e d her almost immediate destruction not a soul escaping epi the city of glasgow and her cargo were vera insured for sal the utmost exactitude is required at alexandria in checking the number of boxes which forms the india china and australian mails maila passing pas qing through egypt tha illiterate aras arabs who take ciarle of the mails iii in that country have a unique and an of keeping an account of the nun number er of boxes and w which bichis is done by a of beads as each box is passed pasted be fore the eve of the arab a bead is thrown over his shoulder where where one end of ibe I 1 string rests the power of mental abstract abs trac tion possessed by the arab together to ether with the simplicity simpli elty of the numeral operator ope raton ena bles him amidst confusion and noise to keep an exact account of any lumber camber of boz ell 09 of which jie he is to take charge without any chance of a mistake N Y herald |