The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-08-02
Items of Interest.

An Internal machine, invented by al
American to destroy over-insured ships, Is
thus described by Mr.. II Henning, the
Venezuelan Consul in London: The ma
chine looks like block of coal ~ about
SIX inches by three, and could be put into
the coal bunkers without the least suspi-
cion. Once there it would, when thrown
into the furnace, explode after fixed
time. Il was suOseq 1ently, he says.
shown one " the machines themselves,
about SIX by four inches, with the exact
appearance Of an ordinary piece Of coal
| was told that some were made cOnsidera-
bly, larger, even to the size Of mans
head, but always to resemble Goals. the rea-
son Of which il obvious. Nearly month
later had another visit from the same
person, who told me that he had recently
heard that there were some persons i'll the
enezuelsn port referred to who were in
terested III some merchant steamers with
goods of no actual value, and then put
some Of these machines on board. and
send her 70 sea, very heavily insured, Ia
the hope that she might be lost, ana they
would gain very large sum
The American Exhibition Catalogue has
appeared at last. Ii should better b. called
the English Catalogue " the American De-
partment, for it was printed in London.
and is a close imitation IN Typography uf
the British Catalogue, from which tie Ill
Illustrations and sIX pages u letter press.
including list Of the groups, and other
general information, have been transferred
bodily The book is q wretched botch N
begins by giving the names Of the articles
in three languages English, French ana
German; but after the first two groupu.
this plan is abandoned, and the ensuing
ive groups are printed in English and
French only. Then the Frenclp il dropped
and the remaining groups appear I'm Eng
lish alone With AL the donble-leaded
and padding, and with the use III large
type, the Catalogue contains only seventy
pages The meagreness of the Ameri.s
Department may be judged from y conn. ~
lson Of this with the catalogues Of sose4
the smaller European countries. The
Switzerland, for example, cuntainsrr N
pages Of tne print, and yet the Swiss
partment occupies only half the snace1
ours does There Is not word of infar
alton in our catalogue about the Unit,
States-nothing concerning our popula-
ton, pur commerce and manufactures. our
| AktlrhilhIt. phI lbTiAs ul government. cur
pnb.Ic lands, our railways, our schools. or
the Inducements We offer to emigration
not line. in short, of the kind u matter
which every foreigner who buys the book
alll look for first There il nothing but
the list ~ the 6.yD exhibitors and the
articles they show.
'The principal cities u tie Union have.
from time to time, received various nick
names. For example New York. Goth
am, Boston, the Modern Athens. also the
Hub Philadelphia, the Quaker City. Bal
timore, the Monumental City: CINCINNATI
the Queen City; New Orleans, the Cres
cent City; Washington, the City " MAG
} niicent Distances; Chicago, the Garden
City; Detroit, the City Of Straits; Cleve.
land, the Forest City; Pittsburg. the Iron
! City; New Haven, the City of ElIns: In
. diAnapolis, the Railroad City; St. Louis
: the City Of Mounds; Keokuk. the Cat,
{ City; Louisville, the Falls City; Nash
vile, the City Of Rocks; Quincy. the Mod
: 81 City; Hannibal, the Bluff City: Alexan
. dria, the Delta City; Newburyport. ths
. Garden IT Eden; Salem, the Cit, I
] Peace, -