The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1877-07-28

recently Drought In an Engn8H ~>aaal
Minnesota has thirty-one hundred .r,
nineteen school-housea. Total value, Il
Guiding sites, "a, 76S, 46S.
The emigration TO this country fror
Russia last year amounted to $3.50 indi
vidnals nearly 5000 more than the pre-
vious year,
The king Of Abynsinia accepted tn
conditions proposed by Gordon Pasha
and peace has been concluded between
Egypt and Abyssinia.
Krupp's 80 ton gun, exhibited Ut tn,
Centennial, was purchased by Russia ~
the Notifications 1t Croastadt, and In nov
being placed in position.
Wooden manufacturers in Rhode Islant
report more encouraging prospects thai
at any time in the last three years. Nearl,
all the mills are working on advanced or
ders.
Only fifteen years ago China held tn,
monopoly of tea production; now India il
proving formidable rival. From 1900,
600 pounds in 1861, the export from Cal
cutta advanced to 20, 600, 900 in 1876.
Trains on different roads in Canals
have been much delayed recently by cater
pillars on the track. On the Port STANLEY
road it was found necessary to shorten
trains.
The ship Star of the West recently
sailed from New York for New South
Wales with 181 emigrants, among whom
are ten single women, ninety-one single
men. ffty-two married people and twenty
eight children. -
An express train in Russia carrying
5000, 900 Of roubles, not only failed !
short time since to reach its destination.
but has altogether disappeared, without
leaving the slightest traces affording Q
clue a. to what has become of it.
Ten States will hold elections before
Congress meets, namely Oregon in June;
North Carolina and Alabama in August
Arkansas, California. Vermont ami Maine
in September; and West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana in October.
The highest point yet attained by any
railroad in this country-9,3 $40 feet-has
been reached on the summit of Laveta
Pass, in the Sangre de Christie Mountains,
by the southwestern extension of the Den
yer and Rio Grande Railroad.
The iron which covered the confederate
ironclads destroyed in Charleston harbor
in 1866 is still being recovered, and the
other day . large section OF the bow of a
gun boat, with ~ pieces Of bar iron plat
ing weighing several tons, was fshed up.
The seventeen year locusts have made
their appearance on Staten Island, N. ",
in great numbers, the forests and fata
throughout the island being almost COW
cred with them. The high lands about
Stapleton swarm with young insects Just
coming out of the ground.
Cooked snails are said to possess the
power of restoring tone to the coating Of
the stomach when badly injured BY the
use Of strong drink. The sale of snails
of Tivoli near Rome, Italy, and the flavor
Is said to be more delicious than that u
oysters.
There are five hundred and sixty lodges
of Odd Fellows in Illinois, with q mem.
bership of 1882.
The chief engineer Of the government
railways in Australia recently reported
that the locomotives made in Australia
were not only poor ones, but an injury to
the roads. He recommended hereafter
that al engines be bought in the United
States He is right. The American in
vention runs smoother, pulls stronger
lasts longer and costs less to run IAN any
in the world.
A sewing woman has been discovered at
Rawleigh, North Carolina who works hard
at making heavy pants At five and two
thirds cents day. That il nearly down
to the hardpan Of civilized brutality.
Rhode Island has 2,Ol9 manufacturing
establishments, with an invested capital Of
nearly $50, 900, 600, and employing sc, 45O
hands who are paid in wages yearly an av-
erage of about $500 each. The raw mate
rial used is valued at $40, Tl5, $40. and tha
value OF produrts yearly IL &.Ss,oo9, SD.
There has been large iiIGrease during the
p0Bpy awin the number Of establishments
engaged in manufacturing, and in the re-
suits Of their BUSINESS. There are l35
cotton factories with capital Of SPA, 034,
209, employir. p, 574 hands, and yielding
goods worth $38, 927, $50. The manufac-
turers who speculate in the labor OF the
operatives realize millions; the operatives
who do she work are barely able to live
This u freedom.
M. Redier. barometer maker to the
French association for the advancement Of
science. has devised barometer for warn
ing miners when the atmospheric pressure
is undergoing a sudden depression, 80 that
they may guard against re-damp explo-
sions.
At Pascagoula, l.. l., there are extern
sive works for creOsoting timber, which is
done by first expelling the sap by steam,
and then giving the wood bath in dead
oil, strongly lmpregnated with creosote.
Besides doubling the durability of the
timber, it protec to it from ship worms.
The municipal clocks Of Vienna are
cord ~ accord, by means OF pneumatic
tubes, with q ceuJTAi Ss--. ~-inute
. wave Of compressed air in sent through
the tubes, causing the hands to move.
A method Of burning petroleum under
steam boilers has been successfully tried
in Italy. IL consists simply in pouring oil
over . thin layer Of abestos, which, being
incombustible, serves to retain the oil and
provide q large wick. Sheets of paper
placed beneath the surface were not in
jured by the intense heat.
MIR. Fairbanks, the scale inventor, ID
now over eighty years Of age, and still in
active business. The scales which have
carried worldwide reputation we're in
vented in 1880, and the various improve
ments sincs made in them are covered BY
some thirty patsnts. During the past forty
years the growth Of the firm has been &C
rapid that were the various patents 10 ex
pire to-day, its manufacturing facilities
and immense business would still enable
it 10 defy competition mot only ut home bu
abroad.
The streets in front Of employment Of
ices in San Francisco are % obstructes
with men seeking work that business firm
lately pstitioned the chief Of police TO keel
q passage clear.
Nearly all the workrnen in the nationa
armories and workshops were discharge,