The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-03-16


PREPARATIONS have begun for the Expo
sitiOn to be held at Madrid in 1873.
AMERICAN copper cents circulate at three
times their home value in Japan.
SOME OF the lakes Of Switzerland are
over 600 feet deep.
THE New Orleans oyster trade amounts
to O, $50, 900 annually.
THERE are only thirty -one convicted mur-
derers in Michigan State Prison.
Moscow and New York have almost pre-
cisely the same number Of inhabitants.
The Chinese eat many kinds of insects,
such ~ locusts, grasshoppers and silk
worms.
OvER two hundred thousand people ar
rive in and quit London by rail every day
in the week.
STATISTICS show that the negro race in
this country in decreasing especially in
large cities.
The average depth Of the Atlantic ocean
is three miles that Of the Pacific, four
miles.
THE catalogue alone Of the British Mu-
scum consists Of twelve hundred printed
volumes.
On an average in each year seven mven-
tors bother the patent office with machines
on perpetual motion.
|
Pa, offers SIC, 900 to any one who will pick
a lock which he has invented.
LONDON, with population Of 8, 25l 900,
has l23, $40 paupers, or about one pauper
to every twenty-six Of the inhabitants.
AccoRDING to the papers, over one hun
dred ladies are studying law in this coun-
try.
THERE are said to be FIVE hundred miles
Of gas-pipe underlying the streets Of New
York city.
TIE University Of Oxford has altogether
8, 252 members ON its books, including both
professors and students -
NEARLY two thousand people, men, wo-
men and girls, are employed in the paper
collar factories Of Massachusetts
|, IT would take one railroad a year and
fourteen days to transport the coal that left
Pittsburgh by river in two days lately.
The Indians declare that they have never
known snch severe weather, and so much
snow upon the plains within their memory
BARSUM wants 800 men to travel with
his show, none Of whom must swear OF
drink.
7 HENRY WARD BEEcHER is sorry to know
: that Christian women Of high position and
B refinement say cuss- words
D JOHN MEARs, for forty years the Duke of
J Wellingtons groom, has Just died in Eng
. land.
The increasing severity of the winters
in Canada is a feature Of considerable re-
mark
: Two hundred and fifty thousand francs
il the value of the cigar stumps picked up
: annually in the streets Of Paris and sold TO
the tobacco manufacturers.
s In 1880 the total production of print
cloths in this country was Is, 600 pieces per
I week. Now the weekly production is 24O,-
! 600 pieces.
] A DETROIT wife lately sold the family
z cook stove to pay the fine and release her
4 husband, who had been sent to Jail for bru-
tally beating her.
II In three hundred and fourteen years
0 since the first Embassy went from Russia
to England the voyage between the two
! countries occupied four months.
4 WHEN Alexander Hamilton was Secreta-
: ~ Of the Treasury, he wrote to Q friend
] for the loan Of go. And vet that man 10
The Louisville Courier journal de-
nounces a. infamous the proposition that
that city shall repudiate its subscription of
/ $50, 600 to the Chicago relief fund.
NEARLY On, 900 German emiQrants arrived
4 In New York city last year arrangements
are making in anticipation OF large immi-
grafton from Europe during the present
year.
GREAT CONSERVATION is felt in the neigh
borhood Of Niagara Falls, az it ID now an
nounced that AgAssiz says the falls will be
D worn away in about eleven thousand years,
D when the effect win be awful
TEE Cresco Qowa) ''Plaindealer" notices
the remarkable but undeniable fact that
: but few national banks are ever started by
plaintiffs in libel suits against newspapers
! with the money recovered from the defend
! anita
! EUROPEAN travellers writing home com
plain Of gross carelesshess and Irregularities
Of railroad travel, and in some instances
!. even of the robbery of baggage OF course
. they have legal redress, but it costs more
than value received.
KxHKNsIvE alterations and repairs are to
be made ON the Niagara Suspension Bridge
during the present season. The iron covers
nj the tops Ut the towers are TO be removed,
and every portion of the structure thorough
fy examined.
B THE French Government is negotiating
D with the Government ct Berlin, with a
! view of anticipating the full payment Of
: the war indemnity. thereby securing the
: complete evacuation Oi France by the Ger
4 mans.
a A SMALL fish, imbedded in ice, was found
4 laseiy The little fellow was solidly encased
a in ice as clear as crystal, and when placed
! In water and the ice gradually melted from
4 sbout it, its riSidity left, the tail quivered,
n and after turning over few times it swan
n away NJ If nothing had happened. How
J, long his minnowship had been thus housed
y IL not known, but probably not less than
" two months.
2 THERE In TO be q transit of Venus in
9 December, 1874, and Congress has been
;, asked by the Connecticut Academy Of AfSs
4 and by the President and Faculty Of Yale
u College, 10 come down handsomely on the
. interesting occasion. II In interesting not
+ only from the scientific but the commercial
N point Of view. 1t concerns navigation a.
y well as astronomy. The phenomenon is a
= rare one-this being the first transit since
d 1769-it has never been Satisfactorily OBJ
q served. European Governments have
already made liberal appropriations, and
4 Of course we shAll want our astronomers 70
N hold UP their heads with the best. IL may
y be taken for granted, therefore, that the
P money will be readily voted. The sum will
70 be hxed-at least, i'm the iEBt instance-by
q Commission created at the last session,
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