The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10
ITEMS OF INTEREST

A foreign company, With capital Of
500 600 900. has oeen organized for the
purpose of investing in Louisiana land,
and of pursuing agriculture as a science
DoN'r FoRoEr Ii. He who thinks no
man above him but for his virtue. none
below him but for his vice. can never be
uhscp NOUS or assuming IN a wrong place
hut will frequently emulate men rank be-
lew hmm, and pity those above him.
The new postal law regarding money
orders viii take effect from July l. by it's
provisions all orders under SO will be
charged ton cents above SO and under
$50, fifteen cents and between $50 and
$40, twenty cents Thus by far the greater
number II orders, those under SO. Will be
charged an additional five cents
An engineer at Dublin, who Is building
break waters and harhur, saves the trouble
and cost OF cuier-dams bs constructing
concrete blocks weighing 300 tons each,
which by a clever contrivance. he sinks In
a comparatively short time, and brings the
water above low-water mark, when the up
Der portions CauUe built IN a usual way.
The interesting statement Is made by Nj.
CHANrIuN. the well-kuown French chem
ist. that the heat developed by a gwen
quantity of nltroglycerue when exploded.
Is capable Of eNertmg. on being converted
lutu motion. maximum energy fully hve
times that produced by the explosion #
zuupowder, and three thousand times more
than that caused through the combustion
VIZ an equal quantity Of coal. 80 small a
quantity As a single quart Of uitroglyceriue
has I'll .4 "a
energy ut =. 800 horse power. working dur
my ten hours. This beng the case, no
wonder that inventors are turning their at
tyutIun tu some means No utilizing such a
prodIgIous force, as practical motor.
A telegram has been received from the
Sanitary Commission sent tu the district
Of Mesuputamia, stricken with the bubonlc
plague The telegram was sent on the 23d
Nj May from Gagdad, whether il had been
sent by special courier from Kut-el-Haur-
anna where the Commission then was. and
states that this fearful ualady has spread
beyond the country Ut the Montehk Arabs,
injecting an Immense district. and destroy
Ing large number Of lives. In three To-
calitIes mentioned In the dispatch the
numbers sere 800. 500, aud 600 respec-
lively Those IS no were struck down with
the disease generally succumbed On the sec
ond OF tLlrd day after the premOnitory
symptoms had set in. In some districts
the epidemic was disappearing, but it was
breaking out I'LL others not yet visited by
the commission.
An illustration Of the astonishing effects
Oh organic bodies NJ which high pressure
steam is capable Is afforded In the process
Of preparing peat, as practlsed II some
parts ct Germany. 1t appears that ia TINS
operation steam at sixty pounds pressure
Is used, and passed through hot pipes, TO
obtain at least SIX hundred degrees Of heat,
and is then thrown into compressed peat,
where II produces the effect of fiery
sponge as it is expressively termed-rob-
blng the peat Of its water, carbonizlng the
material, and etfecting the complete dis
tIllatIun u many substances The texture
Of the peat Is 50 far changed and peculiar
that 1t takes fire by exposure to air 50 that |
1t Is necessary to cool down the charcoal in |
au atmosphere Of steam.
WORDS WORDS -Totanquitlaxcallilla
quelpacholli. That Is all. 1t IS merely |
the ingenious, unpretending name applied |
10 piece Of bread, in the ancient, language |
Of the Aztecs. A hungry man would have
uo temptation to hold extended converse
tiOns during dinner-tIme in a tongue that
required protracted delivery of strang
ling, tripping, torturing, t-ridden syllables
in the anun citation Of every word. He
would be apt to grab section Of the staff
Of life, for instance, without waiting to ask
for it. But totanquitlaxcallillaque lpachOili
is no worse that Hinhtotl, and Popocats-
petl, and Matlaltzincas, aud lXtihlXochitl,
and Tzinacamoztoc, and Neyshu alcoyotl
and tousands Of other common terms in the
Aztec there is only a little more of it.
And Aztec boys and girls used to 90 to
school telpochcalli- and learn to spell
During the drive which the Sultan of
Zanzibar took through the west end Of |
London the other day he was much aston
ished at the display Of flowers, carriages,
and gay dresses in the park. "Verily," he /
remarked to DIR. Badger, the present |
world is undoubtedly yours whether the |
next will be yours alse is, to say the least, |
uncertain. In the morning he said, For |
the sake Of Allah do conduct me somewhere |
to have my face taken, in order that | may !,
be able to show copy of it to the nuner-
Gus face takers (photosraphers) who apply |
to me for it. " Ascot pleased him much, for, |
like true Arab, he is fond of horses |
Eve run our horses, too, he said "but |
ia straight course, and never for money.
We race them for the sake of emulation |
and for the glory Of winning but from all |
/ hear ! fancy that many laos of rupees
Went from pocket to pocket at Ascot yes
terday."
1t is estimated that, in 1865, there were |
but 90, 900 Catholics in England and Scot |
land. In 1921, the number had increased |
TO 800, 900; in 1912, to $500, 600 and in |
1874, to 3, $3.50, 600. The Catholics boast |
Of 600 conversions year in Great Brstain /;
and claimed to have, in 1873, ], 1893 priests,
l, 453 churches and chapels, So convenvs of |
men, 268 converts of women q Catholic |
gymnasiums ,249 schools, 20, dioceses, 80 |
Catholic Lords, " Bsronets, members of |
the House Of Commons The growth of Ca |
tholicism indicated by these figures is as
cribed by some writer's to the Romish ten
denotes OF the English Church to the |
fondness Of the aFlstocratic class for pomp
and ceremony to the sentimentalism, par
ticularly of the women, of the same class
10 the conservative love of order, and dread
Of infdelity as the instigation OF sucial rev
olutions to the reaction against nsisuti6c
rationalism +; and TO the singulak Mctivity, 4
devotion, and sarnestness a tMD Catholic
priesthood. These causes snEiGently &C
count for Che increase of Romanlsm IN
England, without supposing any especial
change in che religious convictions Of she
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