The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-03-29
Items of Interest

To PRINT the Bible III Chinese requires
about : POO different characters although
a font Of type sufficient to meet the de
mands of modern books requires 5000
characters The best office IN the world
| for Chinese and Japanese printing is said
10 ~ that If Mr. Adolph Holzhausen, in
! vienna.
ACCORDING to the London Directory for
| 1873 Just published. there are in that city
2S2 newspapers, 800 magazines and serial
| publications, 9;}s newsvendefs l24 advertise
nent agents, $50 booksellers, 81 publish
ers, ,030 master printers. 2 type found
ers, and 20 sterotypers. There are also 81
copper plate engraverS, 81 photographers,
IDS wood engravers, 81 music printers, 03
map makers and sellers, 322 wholesale sta
| TONERS, |, 400 retail stationers. ana
10000 binders The journeynen work
my for the employers III the above trades
are not gwen, but the number must be
quite large.
THE London Times says that the recent
transmission Of the Queen sspeech through
out England evidenced some very rapid
telegraphing The document contained
$50 words, and reached York. distance
Of about POO miles, IN SIX minutes ana a
half. Mheatstone automatic instruments
were used. The above is at the speed Of
1872 words per minute.
A BILL vas recently passed IN Congress
authorizing the President to cause such
experiments 10 be made and such infurma-
ton 10 be collected as in his opinion may
be useful and important To- guard against
the bursting Of steam boilers. and request
ing him to communicate the same to Con
gress The sum of 500, 600 Is approprIa-
ted for the purposes Of the act
THERE are now 5b,OlJSmiles of tele-
graph wires in Chile.
A COUPLE Of immense wire ropes, each
between three and four miles long. have
Just been completed by Mrssrs j and H.
Wright II the Universe Works. BrrmInE
ham, England On. ~ these ropes. ill.,
tended Tor the " Ipping tunnel of the Lon
don and Northwestern Railway, at Liver
pool, is 6thousand yards IN length. 81 inches
IN circumference, and Is composed If six
strands having ten wires iu each. The wire
Is wound round a hempen core. Tie
weight Of the rope Is - tuus. The second
rope IS for the Cowlan tunnel. AT Glasgow.
is tive thousand yards long and weighs 20
tuns.
The ln}ted States supreme Court has
decided that deserter from the army who
has been taught and made to serve out the
entire term III hiS service. ana obtained a
regular discharge from the army. u III ef-
feet, Just as good as If he had been faithful
from the first, and is legally entitled To his
bounty This will be good news to those
who have suffered by the decision of the
Paymaster General which was exactly OPP
posite
CHALK A. FUEL
The announcement that the South West
ern Railway Company have made the
experiment Of using chalk as fuel. ana that
the experiment has proved successful, Will
be received with as much warmth AS the
half-trozen En-lishman of March. 1878. IL
capable Of layer of Goals. then a LAYER
of chalk, then another layer of Goals. and
50 on that is the plan which the Company
have hit upon for warming the waiting
rooms on their line. Orders have been
issued to have a truck of chalk al all sta
tons, and we may, therefore, with some
confidence, conclude that chalk il nov
partly started on its career of combustion.
Next, when we 90 to buy our Goals. We
shall probably be asked If we will have a
little chalk with 1t, Just rs we are now ask
ed If We will have little chicory with our
coffee. Fortunately there is some differ
ence in the color From merely domes
tic point Of view the prospect IS cheering.
but when We come to regard the matter
with the eyes OF the Foreign Otfice. 1t as
sumes different aspect What Will the
foreigner say when he hears that perhdious
Albion is about to burn the white cliffs
from which she has looked down upon her
subject sea Will not his heart he filled
with contempt for the nation that can so
act However, II VIII take some time to
burn the foundations upon which the south
eastern corner Of our country rests It
will be some hundred years, at any rate.
before we slip into the sea like ship that
is launched. In the meantime, we. and
the half dozen generations or so which
succeed us, will keep warm. This is some
thing, even if national suicide ~ drowning
should be the ultimate result.