The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-10-08
MISCELLANEOUS.

MANY millonaires are Of less service Is
the communities in which they reside than
are the scavengers which cleanse the streets.
'There now, said girl who was rum
maeins in drawer, gran pa has gone to
Heaven without his spectales, an you must
take EN- with you, gran ma, when yOn 60"
TUE chief art Of learning is to attempt
but little at a time. Tue widest excursions
Of the mind are made by short fights, fre
quently repeated; the most lofty fabrics Of
science are formed by the continued accum-
ulations Of single propositions.
AFTER much training Of youngster 70
keep him still at the mble long enough for
"the plessing," be sat very quiet one day,
till, near the close Of the service, bis mother
beginning inwardy 70 congratulate hersolf
that for once he had kept still, when be sud
IDENTIFY called out Oath do, Papa pass
plates now.
"A Boys CONPosIrIoN.-A youngster
required to write composition upon some
portion Of the human body, selected that
which unites the head to the sht ulders' and
expanded as follows "a throat is conven-
lent to have, especially to roOsters and min
listers. The former eats corn, and crows
with it the, latter breaches through his'n,
and then ties it up. This is pretty much
all which can think Of about necks.
NEWARK, n. J, is to have a needle fac
tory. 1t viii be on a great scale, will have
a capital Of several millions Of dollars, and
will make the new self-threading and all
other kinds Of needles. There is only one
needle factory in the United States at pres
ent, lii Connecticut, but it is on a small
scale. The new concern is to be a vast af-
fair. Most Of the work will be done by ma
chinery, but employment will be given to
500 persons
An immense 35 ton gun is in course
Of construction at the Royal Arsenal,
\ Woolwich, Eng and. 1t is made en-
tirely on the Frazer principle, and will
be muzzle-loader. 1t is built of FIVE
concentric rings. When completed,
the colIibre Of the bore will be III
inches, and the length of the gun 10
feet. The weight of the projectile will
be 700 pounds, and the powder charge
100 pounds.
DELIVERING a fourth of July speech,
after the usual denuneiations of the mother
country, and laudations Of the United States
a speaker led off in this style: "Whoss
afeared! +! whoes scared. though she doel
call herself mistress Of the seas ? for If she
is mistress we will be master. And, my
fellow citizens, BY rights they are our sea.
anyhow, for if there has been no Mississip
pi. they would have had no seas now
And if weNWere to turn that river into thi
lakes or the big cave Of Kentucky. w
would leave her ships in puddle hole q
the bottom, surrounded by fluttering hst
l snakes and all gators" (Great applause
0 TIE method or cooking rice, as obtained
8 from the Chinese colony of sboemakers
North Adams. il as follows Take stew
nan. with close-ftting top, and cleaI
piece Of white muslin, large enough to cove
= tbe top of the pan and rang dow ins'd'
4 nearly to, but not in contact with, the bot
tom. Into the sack 50 formed place the rice
y, pour over il two ouPfuls Of water. and pu
I. on the ton Of the stew-pan, 50 as 10 bold vi
!; the "a asia bag inside, and ft tight all round
place the pan ON a slow fire, and the steam
) generated from the water will cook the rice
Each grain viii come out Of the boiler q
I dry and distinct as If just taken from th,
0 hull. More water may be poured into tb'
! pan, if necessary, but only sufficient to teel
up The steam iii the rice Il cooked +"