The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1881-10-15
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The nqNhqr qt women employed in
The railroad Offices Of Australia IS now
over 5000. They get paid from $15 to
$50 y month. Nearly all Of them are
| either the widows, wives or daughters Of
defunct or active male employees on the
different roads. II 4g st e
| "A coIony Of bees made a hive out Of
an immense pumpkin on Mr.. Robinson's
place, at, Riverside, Cal. He intended
tho mammoth pumpkin for exhibition at
the Fair; but the bees having pre-. empt-
ed it and filed 1t with honey, he decid-
ed to abandon his intention. "a .gtra
| The Rev! Phillip Brooks, of Bos-
ton, was taken for a champion - strong
man = tho other day, at Bangor. ION ar
irving at the wharf he could not find the
baggage-master to remove his big trunk
from the carriage, so he picked It UP
himself ~ easily as II IL had been q
sachel and carried it aor0ss the wharf.
-Ap whale recently was stranded on
an: outlying point Of the island of Walls,
Orkney, NAV, Men, women and, children
rushed To- the spot with knives, pitch
forks, and more primitive weapons, and
cut the monster III q fearful manner, I'M
til it was supposed that life was extinct.
Ropes were afterward procured and fas-
tened to the whale, and boats were pro-
ceeding to tow it into the harbor. With
the rising tide the whale, floated; but
as the boats we're being rowed away in
triumph with the prize, the whale sud-
denly took q fresh lease Of life and started
seward in turn towing the boats. 1t
was only after being dragged over three
miles that the pAsn succeeded in cutting
the ropes and saving their boats from
being swamped. '''' 90 So
During a recent storm in Orange,
VT, a large meteoric stone fell on the
farm Of Smith Martyr. When it struck
it was somewhat shattered, and the
fragments cutlarge holss in the ground
and fences. Ofthe largestpiece, cor.
respondent Of the Montpelier argus
says: cat the time we visited the To-
cality it was so hot we could not get
within twenty feet of it, but since then l
have been to the spot and made exact
measurement tItIis eight feet four,
inches long, and two feet FIVE and one
half inches ip diameter. OF course from,
its size and from the force with which it
struck, it may extend eight 81 ten feet
into the eattn.r IL stands at about an
angle of Is degrees and came in a d.
rect line from that ,angles as it can be
plainly seen where it burnt the trees, it
coming through q little distance off in
the edge of the woods. The appear
ance very much like Stag from iron
works. 1t did but little damage
|l0 The colossal crane lrp,' or derrick-the
most powerful in the world-which has
been in process of construction for sew.
eral years at the Royal Arsenal, Wool
witch, England, is now an accomplished
fact. The size of this apparatus may be
judged from the curious details pub
lished, as, for instance, more than 1890
tons Of iron have been used in it, manu-.
facture, while the brass bearings alone
amount to more than three tons. The
design has been that thiEEnonster crane
should sho be capable Of liiting three Or four
ever, for which i has been mainly pro-
vided is not to do work which other APP
pliances could accomplish in detail, but
! rather t. meet the probable necessity
for dealing with pieces Of ordnance SO
enormous as to defy all the means at
present available for mounting them in
their carriages. The motive power is
steam, and, although calculated to raise
1900 tones in ca3e Of need, the APP
paratus is also fixed for raising small
weights At accelerated speed, and thus
adapted, in many instances, to facilitate
tho ordinary operations. p lta'
50 T.