The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-04-06
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RHn dsnBn1 of France win begin MhyI.
"A cUssglkchSof gdld is worth eleo
EHmAnabnnl Aebt Of Great 4Ntibaan Nm,
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y MAM KahmAas Aimsnty-oaae lum aarsrpm-
nHn1tH than 0ne year agp. ..s-..- wv
xMs fsk paRsE nin in New Orlsnns, has
5ess been Put " successful operation.
CoMizseIoNxRs rspert tbs coal Relds II
Great AfikAih sufficient for 800 years.
TAxA1M y psepdItion before the Legis-
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heAdmwasfnq1 AZ r=faiS-.i4a q sns4t 49,
}ad0mmnHAnx kh1uusa in<Dusain -recs,ss,
sixty CENTS psr day. and skilled laborss
PHILADELPHIA has lost more citizens
from the smallpox than any two other
cities.
THE new British American cable win not
60 down" until the issue Of the Alabama
difficulty is ascertained.
The population OF Great Britain In placed
at 81, 900, 600, that Of France at 81 ,OOO, ,OOO
and Of Russia as high as 20, OOO, 900.
PROFESSOR MORSE, the inventor of the
electric telegraph system, died at his resi-
denee in New York on Tuesday, aged 81
years.
The largest rope in the world has been
completed in Birmingham. 1t ia about
six miles long, five and a quarter inches
in circumference, and weighs over sixty
tons
SOME Of the farmers in Tennessee are
successful in their attempts TO raise opium
trom the poppy. The yield is froIn fifty
10 seventy pounds to the acre
Ir is now just 10 years since the first
daily paper IN London, or in Europe, was
started. The name Of this paper was the
g Daily Courant."
IL IL three hundred and fourteen years |
lnce the first Embassy went from Russia |
TO England the voyage between the two
countries occupied four months.
There are 1872 mills in the State Of Ne
Vada used in the crushing and reduction of |
various ores. Their capacity equals 1894 |
horses they carry 2,848 stamps and costs
Iver $40, 800, 900.
Within the last fifteen years about L.
30, 600 of British subjects have left the |
United Kingdom for the United States.
besides those who have passed through |
Canada. The whole number of British sub
ects resident in the United States was e.
imated, In 1861, at nearly 2,5OO,OOO.
The number Of persons now residing at |
he Vatican, which consists Of fifty separate
buildings, with fourteen court-yards and |
,pslve thousand rooms, Il three thousand. |
q 10 town without streets. None of the |
1fhcials have been changed. Antonelh il
till Secretary Of State.
A MICHIGAN gin-mill keeper has this !
svaslve arrangement You put your ten |
sents on a spot marked whisky" the ap-
paratus revolves, and directly you see a |
glass OF whisky standing before you, and
you don't know, of course, who gave it to |
you, or how it came there.
TIE Canals OF CHINA.-From time i'm
the rivers of China have been
united by canals, and there is no country
On the face Of the globe where the advan- |
tages OF such q network Of canals are 20 |
manifest for these canals, with the natu- |
raj water communications, render the ton
mage Of that country but little less than |
the combined tonnage of the rest of the |
world. The Grand Canal of China is the |
most StupendouG work of the kind ever
sxecuted. 1t was commenced in the tenth |
century Of our era. 1t is nearly 700 hun |
dred miles in length, and extends from |
to Yang -liang river, forming
an unhroken connection between fifty cit
les. 1t joins the great rivers Yang-tee-ki-
ang, $500 miles long, and Ho-ang-ho, q
900. This and other Chinese canals are
not constructed upon the same plan as the
canals Of Europe and America