The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1873-04-26
Hems of Interest.

The French Chamber of Deputies has
adjourned until May 18th It's last impor
tant act Was bill tor reuuhursng PARIS
its war contribution q p, uoo, OOot, and
granting indemnity on the same account
to the Departments To the amount uf -,
O0u. OOOf
As an illustration II the comparative
inethciency Of irregular troops when pItted
against regulars, II Is officially shown that
100 the second siege of Paris IN 1870, the
besiegers lost but 1G4 men killed, all told,
while the loss If the Communists is estI-
mated at not less than 10000 killed and
p. 900 prisoners.
MIR joins HuPKINs, OF Baltimore has
given money and land t. the aggregate val
Ue q four million dollars. to found a hos
ptal III that city. He also provided in his
will for the establishment IF an education
al university, for which he has made a be
quest Of from four to SIX million dollars
value Mr. Hopkins is a bachelor sew
enty-seven years old, and the richest man
in Maryland.
BY the new treaty signed at Berlin
March 10Th. 1t was agreed that the last of
the fourth Thousand million francs of war
indemnity should be paid the Germans ear
IL IN May. and the fifth thousand million
IN four monthly mstalIments from June
9th to Sept 9th The four departments
still held are to be evacuated in July. and
Belfort given up. BY the special good
will of Bismarck it was conceded that Yer
dun, instead Of the more important Bel
fort should be held to secule the very last
payment October will see the D, OO0, 900
OOo francs Of indemnity paid and the last
German gene.
MONSTER CANNON.
Herr krupp is to send to Vienna two
cannons, which are the largest yet pro
duced at his factory. Both are of bronze
one is 22-l feet deep, interIory. As feet il
diameter. and weighs u 3 tuns and the
other is 1872 feet in length. 40 feet IN di-
ameter, and weighs 30. tuns.
A MODE If more safely and more cffcc-
tually warming railway carriages than by
stove or hot water, 1t Is sand has been
widely adopted in Germany The inven-
ton consists Of the use If composite fuel.
which only smOlders slowly. and encased iii
an iron tray, inclosed IN a copper box.
Theoretically closed The heat is SAID To-
last twenty-four hour, If necessary The
fuel is called the " charcoal parquettes 2
At sixty-hve dollars per ton, the cost is
said to be almost nominal, and the appar
atus costs only six dollars to each compart-
ment.
NEW BRITISH WAR STEAMER.
An event Of interest recently took place
at Chatham, Eng in the launch OF the
Al. 1Ir .
lately constructed, to offer great resistance
to shot and shell, but with a view to com
bine great speed with very heavy arIna-
ment. She is therefore built Of iron,
sheathed with wood and coppered, and
lined with brown cardboard, as being less
likely to splinter, and also less iniamable
than timbes and her dimensions are
Length, 208 feet breadth, AS feet inches
draft Of water, forward, 20 feet aft. %
feet tunage, 3,2lO tuns armament, up
per deck, two l25 tun guns, four - poun-
der guns main deck, fourteen NJ cwt.
guns, two Ga FOUNDER guns horse power,
800 crew, $50 and she is estimated to
cost when entirely finished about 81 900, !
600
TIE English Admiralty has ordered a
supply of songs from sailors with a view of
their adoption IN the naval training ships
FLOCK 81 sheep numbering I'M, UO0
head will form a part Of the cortege which
Is to visit Mecca during the coming festi-
val.
The new telescope being made at Cam
bridgeport, Mass, for the Washington ob-
servatory will, IT is said, lie the largest In
the world. The object glass will have a
diameter Of 26i inches, and the tube To-
cal distance Of - feet The total cost II
the telescope and its requisite machinery
will be $50, 900, Of which the object glass
alone will cost S27, 900. 1t was cast in
England, and finished in Massac husetts.