The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-11-13

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British Columbia, Nov. z, by which owe
= 100 lives were lost.
9 The Khedive has applied officially
1 England for two fnanciers to undertak
Egyptian finances, promising the fulles
information to the great powers.
Representative w. d. Kelley is tn
''senior member" Of the Forty fourth Con
gress, which will meet on the first Monda
in next December. He has been electe,
for eight consecutive terms, and by virtu
Of his seniority will administer the oath t.
the next Speaker Of the House of Repre-
sentatives.
A lump of coal, measuring eight feet il
length, three feet square, and weighin,
two tons, intended for the Centennisi Ex
hibition. has Just been landed at Camp
bells wharf, Dartmouth, Cape Breton. 7
was taken from the OntnriO (or Diamond
lead at the Caledonia mines.
Two great express companies Of the
United States, the Adams and the Ameri
can, employ about 8, 900 men, l, 900 horses
], 200 wagons, and use 5000 safes Theil
agents travel more than 100, 900 miles daily
or more than 80 600, 900 annually.
The Ohio river is the greatest coal car.
rier in the world, notwithstanding the fact
that it is frozen up during most of the
winter, and nearly dried up large portion
of the summer. run" Of coal was
made during the month of July last, when
375, 923 tons were shipped in forty eight
hors. 1t would have loaded over 81, 200
elght-wheeled cars, which would have to
be made up into about l, 900 heavy freight
trains
The huge bronze ball which supports
the cross on the top of st. Peters cupOla at
Rome can easily contain thirteen persons
at once. In the summer its interior is as
hot as an oven, and in winter it needs a
stove for the comfort of visitors. Ladies
have an awful Jolly time getting in and out
of it by means Of ladder and, as a gen
eFal thing, they prefer not to follow, but
to precede their gentlemen escorts in the
descent. From the square below the gilded
ball looks the size Of pumpkin. Ameri
cans generally 20 for it,
There are six European kingdoms, ruled
oy crowned monarchs, which have each a
smaller population than the State of New
York, the last census Of which shows it to
De Oh tile verge Vi i've lHliiOHS. lHcSc
kingdoms are Holland, Portugal, Belgium,
Denmark, Bavaria, and Greece. Our
State is Just about equal in population
with Belgium and with Bavaria it is
million above Holland two millions above
Portugal three millions above Denmark,
and three and half millions above Greece.
Its population is nearly twice that Of the
republic of Switzerland. 1t is up to that
Of the Persian empire, thong h we should
say there were only estimates for Persia.
1t has twice the population of the re-
public of Peru; and half that of
the empire of Brazil. The two
cities Of New York and Brooklyn have by
themselves population greater than the
kingdom of Denmark, and this city alone
is almost as populous as the kingdom of
Greece. Y. San.
BOMBAY, Nov. 8.-Gen. Lord Napier of
Magdala, Sir Phillip E. Wodehouse, Gov
ern0r of Bombay; the Hon. Sir NJ. r.
Westropp, the Chief Justice, and many
others, the civil, military and municipal
authorities, accompanied by seventy native
princes and chiefs, met and welcomed the
Prince of Wales on his landing from the
Scraps. After leaving the royal barge at
the dockyard the municipality Of Bombay
presented him with an appropriate address
OF welcome. The Prince replied briefly,
after which he and his suite were escorted
to the Government House. The troops
and police preserved perfect order while
the long procession moved through the
streets. Over two hundred thousand spec
tators lined the route. The reception was
most enthusiastic, and was participated in
alike by Europeans and natives. The city
wassplendidly illuminated, eight triumphal
arches having been erected on the line of
march The apartments to be occr-iol by
his Royal Highness during AIS stay in
Bombay are the most please ntly situated
| in the Government House. A grand levee
will be given there tonight. Tomorrow,
being the birthday of the Prince, the fes-
tivlties will be renewed on a still greater
scale.
AMERICAN UTENSILS IN ENGLAND.-It
is well said by the Newark Advertiser that
it is a subject of national pride that Amer
lean tools are becoming popular in Eng
land, and entering into successful cOmpe-
tition with British goods, under the very
noses of Wolverhampton manufacturers,
who half century ago had the monopoly
of supplying the world. In edge tools the
English makers are even initiating the
best American patterns ; and it is said
that it is now seriously proposed to start
the manufacture of American edge tools IN
England, Just as American sewing ma.
chimes are now manufactured there. 1t ii
well-known that American shovels anc
spades have driven out the English from
their own markets. The man who accom-
plished this was Oliver Ames, Of Massa
chusetts, father of Cakes Ames. His pro
cess, as described by the Advertiser, was t.
place q thin plate of steel between two
plates of iron. The three being heated
were drawn down to a proper thickness
for a shovel plate, the same process weld
, ing the three plates into one. The shove
was then cut out with dies, the socke
riveted or welded on, and the handle pu
on In use the soft iron wore away leav
ing steel edge, and digging with such
spade had the effect to keep it constantl,
sharp. OF course, this Yankee invention
with its lightness and other good qualities
soon took possession of the Enghs
market. There is another Yankee inven
ton, the ''gimlet-point" screw-a Rhod
Island device-which has revolutionize
the screw arket, once wholly filed b
} Englishmen. Our Philsdelphia LOGON,
, tives 20 to Russia, and our Eastern print
: to Asia. Certainly in these Centenni'
) days such things are worth being proud o
: and even in hard times they contain til
promise of good times coming again.
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