The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-05-11


nearly t4S, Goa, 900 worth Of metals and
Goals last year.
The fourteen savings banks Of Boston
have fifteen million dollars on deposit, Ia
the credit Of more than one hundred and
ninety thousand persons.
BY the recent reports it appears that the
railroads Of this country last year carried
over 100, OOO, 900 tons of merchandise.
worth on an average Sl20 ton.
The beautiful seaside city Of Naples is
in imminent danger Of meeting the fate Of
Herculaneum, which, centuries ago, was
completely covered over and deeply buried
by an eight days continuous shower Of ash
rs, sand and clnders from The belchiug
crater Of Mount Nesuvius 4 dispatch
states that ashes and sand from the volcano
are raining down upon Naples in such pro-
fusion that the streets are already covered
to the depth Of several inches.
FEW days ago, the van-a covered We
hicle with locked door started from a
Philadelphia court house with three occu-
pants for the prison. Upon arriving there,
the door was unlocked, but no prisoners
were found inside. They had made an
opening in the floor Of the concern and
had quietly dropped out and escaped One
was a well known New York thief another
Philadelphia burglar, and the third, who
was recaptured, had been stealing pig iron
PARTICULARS Of the late earthquake in
Syria are now coming to hand. The fatal
tiles were not the greatest in the city If
Antioch, but were heavier in the vicinity
~ the city. The number Of persons killed
in the city Of Antioch is less than 800 but
it IS known that 900 persisted in the sur
rounding towns Of the country, where the
shocks were As severe, If not greater, than
here. This number may DC increased. The
distress Of the people will Ne only tempo
rary, as the crop prospects are good. The
supply Of provisions on hand is moderate
A BERLIN photographer has invented a
paper to be used for the currency purposes
which he claims will defy counterfeitiug.
The protection is the color Of the paper,
which cannot be chemically analysed,
neither initiated by photography. Each
State can have its own color, which can be
kept secret. The process is not more
expensive than now employed in preparing
the present paper. The inventor has been
engaged for many years in the undertake
mg.
ALUMINIUM GOLD This alloy which is
now 50 extensively employed in the manu-
fncture Of watches and jewclry, is com
posed Of ten parts aluminium and ninety
parts copper in each hundred 1t is the
color Of gold, takes high polish, and is
very malleabe This allow is also extreme
ly hard, and possesses a tenaciIy equal to
that Of the best steel The metal alumni
mum IS the chief constituent in alum and
in common clay. This metal is not much
more than two and half times as is water.
and 1t is about four times as light as silver,
which it greatly resembles in color and lus-
ter. When silver is alleged with a small
preparation Of this metal it obtains the
property Of not being furnished on expo
sure to the atmosphere.
Poisonous PAPER-A gentleman who
has had fourteen years experience in the
matter regarding which he now directs the
attention Of the public, makes the appal-
ling statement not only that-as has long
been generally known-green papers for
house walls contains arsenical preparations
which for years may evolve poisonous par
papers containing green, but frequently,
and even IN large quantities, in papers Of all
colors, even in some that are nearly white.
As his authority, he quotes IAN eminent
analytical chemist, late lecturer at st. Bar
thOlOmew's Hospital-this must be either
DIR. StenhOuse or the late DIR. Matthiesen)
to whom he sent papers of many colors
dark, brown, buff, white, blue, and vari-
GUS delicate shades of gray, drab aud mauve
which, from the symptoms to which they
apparently gave rise, were suspected Of
containing this metal. The results of an
alysls were that, i'll every instance, the pa
pers which were taken from bedroom walls
contained arsenic and clearly indicate
1t Is impossible for any one, professional
ly or otherwise, to Judge by the eye wheth-
er paper contains arsenic or not. or
much or little" The indications Of poison
ing caused by the paper containing only a
little arsenic were clear in case. After four
teen years suffering with few interyals)
from arsenlcal poisoning from this source.
the wrlter-whose scientific position and
power as an observer is vouched for by the
editor the British Medical Journal who
publishes the paper-has given up having
paper on his walls, and the atmosphere 81
his rooms Is, he says, far purer than it was.
II dlstemper or Oil-painting be substituted
for paper, care must be taken in the selec-
ton OF the pigments, many of which also
contains arsenic, and have proved very in
furious.