The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1864-11-05
INTERESTING ITEMS.

INTERESTING ITEMS.
LARGE portion Of Moscow has been burned
up. Two hundred and fifty houses went L one
night.
PATENT-LEATHER belts are used in England
for outdoor work. They are said to be imper.
vious to damp and retain their length in all
weather.
PIEs.-A Yankee in New York turns out 35,-
600 10 10000 every week. He occupies four
buildings and has ten horses and wagons en-
gagged in delivering his pies about the city.
A WoNAs's WoRK.-A woman in Franklin
county, Missouri, raised a half acre Of tobacco
this year doing all the work herself and clear
ed 5000 by it.
THE United States has more coal. and asks
more for it than any other country on the
globe
EUROPE has a population of $40, 500 90. and
in the aggregation a standing army Of 1894
600
THERE are about 900 miles Of railway in
the world. These have consumed A.. 600. 900
tons of iron.
The New England dentists have formed
Protective Union" Dr. Wethebee, Of Boston,
is President
Nearly all the cotton factories in Woonsocket
are stopped for want Of cotton. There are
twenty cotton mills in the town. The WOODEN
mills are in full blast
TIE death of NJ. Emil Cheve is announced
by French journal. He had invented a svs-
TEN for replacing musical notes BY figures
The Duke de Morny was one Of his proselytes
THERE are 26s.079 Indians left in the United
States Il, 900 Creeks, IL $50 Cherokees, 49,
900 Choetaws, $4,000 Navajoes, l3,s3s Sioux,
$500 Camanches.
/ 4 ha E0- Of ~f Il
Of France is dead. He was often called the
last Of the Trobadours. Longfellow has trans
lated some Of his quaint but charming pieces
The Manchester Print Works, have made
during the year fourteen millions Of yards OF
deiaines andprint-cloths, and hfty-six thousand
dozen Of hosiery, equal to seven thousand nine
hundred and ffty-four miles OF cloth, or twenty
miles daily.
THE long bridge at Washington. commenced
about fifteen months ago, IS completed. Ii is
4O46 feet long, has two draws, each 78 fet
long, which are so constructed as TO REQUIRE
but two minutes to be opened and shut again.
The cost Of the bridge is only about $l5O,0OO
YOUNG lady, named Ellen, asked male
friend TO define Phonogrsphy. He thereupon
wrote the following specimen ~. II. B. U. r.
L. n"
The following toast was recently proposed
at fireman dinner: 4" The ladies-Their eyes
kindle the flames which cannot extinguish,
and against which there is no insurance.
IT is found that women make the very best
clerks for the electric telegraph. Very rarely,
indeed, are they at fault. The only difficulty
is, to prevent each young lady at either end
of the line from having the last word.
CHARAcrERrsTIcs OF MAS.-We clip the fol-
lowing interesting extract from lecture deliv-
cred BY Professor Owen, the celebrated natu-
ralist, at Birmingham, England:
! Having Indicated the structural peculiari-
\ ties Of various orders Of animals as constituting
/ the bases of the subdivisions he referred to,
| he said that finally, they came to the class to
which man belonged-namely, that in which
/ the thumb was restricted to the hand Cuyier
had selected man as the representative Of this
| class, under the name Bimana the principal
| popularity Of which was erectness Of posture
Man alone Of all the vertebrated animals had
| one pair Of his limbs liberated from the Office
| Of locomotion, and capable of being made sub
servient TO the inventive, rational, and respon-
slble faculties which belonged TO him. In the
hand alone they found all the structure neces-
sary for the delicate acts Of prehension, a sub
iect on which alone volumes had been written.
| Though man came into the world naked and
| unprotected, yet, by his wonderful powers. he
could fabricate and invent his clothing out
| rivalling all natural products He had no nat
ural weapons-no great canine teeth like the
gorilla for fighting with the lion, no claws like
the tiger, nor strong hcofs like other animals
but he could invent more terrible dDd destruc-
tive weapons than any with which the lower
creation were endowed Thus he fulfilled his
destiny on the planet the master Of living
creatures He could preserve extirpate al
the other races Of beings inhabiting the globe
He was destined TO be the master Of the earth
How necessary, then, that he should have 9
thorough sense Of the responsibility resting
upon him, and use wen the high gifts which
God had bestowed
Curious Case OF Somnambulism.
strange case Of somnambulisn recentl,
occurred at lvetot. small farmer hat