The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1871-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

CANADA has 1881 ships, with a ton
mage Of $4,000 tons.
The cotton crop for 1871 is estimated
as high as 4, 100000 bales.
LONDON is swarming with visitors.
There are about 81, 900 Germans now there
about 100000 French, about $4,000 Of
other continental countries. The hotels,
lodging houses and boarding houses are
doing a roaring business.
Tie Tredegar iron works, at Richmond,
Va, now turn out FIVE tons of iron to
one before the war, and last year manufac
urcd 1900 tons Of wrought and cast
ron, in addition to implements, bringing
100000 to the city Of Richmond
They work from 500 to 1000 hands, and
have capacity for from l 800 to 1900.
TIE combined population of the eight
largest cities OF the United States-New
York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, st. Louis,
Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, and Cincin-
nati-are less than the population Of the
city of London, as announced by the recent
British census.
THE purest river water known to exist is
that of the small Swedish river Laka, which
10 100. 900 parts contains less than one
part of mineral substance The Thames,
at London Bridge, contains in the same
quantity Of water from GO to 10 parts; the
Seine, at Paris, from p to "a and the
river Jordon from 81 to 13l parts of min
eral substance in the same quantity Of
water.
TIE rates Of interest paid By the SAY
ings Banks Of California are said to vary
according to the character Of the deposits,
ranging from six per cent on short to twelve
per cent, on permanent deposits, although
some institutions pay ten per cent, on all
classes.
TIE English think they have outdOne
krupp altogether ID the matter Of heavy
and efficient guns. AT Woolwich a solid
cylinder of iron weighing 700 pounds was
thrown from a Fraser thirty-five ton Can
non with the velocity Of 1870 feet per
second, and a distance of about fifty yards
buried itself thirty-three feet deep IN an
embankment Of earth aud turf that had
been prepared for its reception. The charge
Of powder was 100 pounds. The Fraser
gun has a steel bore surrounded with
wrought iron castings.
TIE following shows the number of
graves in the Gettysburg cemetery, with
tie different States which they represent:
New York, SG8; Pennsylvania, 534 I;
Massachusetts, l59; Ohio, 1871; Maine,
lO4 Michigan, III; Indiana so; New
Jersey, 10; Wisconsin, 10; Minnesota,
- Vermont, Gil; New Hampshire, 40 /;
Connecticut, -; Maryland, %; Della
ware, 81; Rb de Island, II; West Vir-
GINA, IL; Illinois, 6 regulars, So; un-
known. 979 making an aggregate Of 81
SIS. Directly after the battle thousands
we're removed by friends and relatives, leav-
ing but mparatively small number.
The TRANSMISSION Of blood as a remedy
for impaired vitality, was recently attempt
"a with complete success in Berlin hOspi-
tai. The subject vas a soldier on whom
an amputa,ion had been performed and who
became so weak from the consequent loss
of blood, that bis life was despalred Of As
a last resource one Of the attending Sur
geons selected healthy Bavarian, and
took from him the proper quantity Of blood,
which, after being freed from albumen By
tlter.ng, and raised BY artificial means to
blood-heat, was injected into the veins of
the dying soldier lie began at once to
recover.