The advocate., 1897-11-10
Advocate Museum.

In Wanamaker's big store in Philadel-
phia there are 1000 clerks employed.
The Fiftieth Congress-1SS7-1SSS
was in session 321 days, which Is the
longest time that body ever sat before or
since during the two, years term.
Until this year no census has been
taken of the Russian Empire since 1851.
The total population is now given as
1921, ,1lS, having about doubled in the
last forty-siX years.
In these days of electricity it is not
essential to have somebody turn out the
lights. Time switches are made which
can be attached to a clock and made to
turn out electric lights at any desired
hour.
Statistics of the French population
for 1895 show decrease of 1900. The
birth rate in France, which at the be-
ginning Of the century was thirty-three
per thousand, has now decreased to
twenty-five.
Lord Kelvin holds that the internal
heat of the earth has nothing to do
with the climates The earth, he says,
might be of the temperature Of white hot
iron 1900 feet below the surface, or at
the freezing point fifty feet below, with
out at all affecting climate.
Inventors in India are not as slow
as might be supposed. A cooking box,
introduced by a Hindoo, is run by solar
heat 1t is lined with mirrors, cOncen-
trating the rays on heater Of copper,
covered with glass, ana performs it's
work quickly in boiling, baking or stew
dng
In the French navy it has been found
that the electric search-light employed
on men-of-war injUriously affects the
eyes of seamen who have to work about
the light, and dark blue spectacles are
supplied to them for protection. Brown
eyes are less affected than gray or blue
ones, the reason suggested being that
the former are more heavily charged
with pigment.
A corduroy road made Of small cedar
trees, which were in a perfect state of
preservation was unearthed the other
day thirty-eight feet below the surface
of the earth, seven miles east Of Ashta-
bula, o. Prof, Carl Wright, teacher of
geology in Oberlin college, who has Wis
tied the spot and examined the wood,
gave it as his opinion that the wood has
been where it was found since the glacial
epoch.
In China the hen is kept constantly
busy. When not engaged in Matching
her own brood she is compelled to hatch
fish eggs. The spawn of fish are placed
in an egg shell, which is hermetically
sealed and placed under the unsuspect-
ing hen. After some days the egg shell
is removed and carefully broken, and
the spawn, which has been warmed into
life, Is emptied into a shallow pool,
well warmed by the sun. Here the min
nOws that soon develop are nursed until
strong enough to be turned into a lake
or stream.
The oldest letter carrier in point of
service in the United States, and prob
ably in the world, is Charles A. Tyler.
He is "a years old, and he has been car
Iying letters for fifty-two years. He has
for the past fifteen years or so been
carrying the mail three times a day from
the substation in the Produce Exchange
building in New York City, to Gov
ernor's Island. Mr.. Tyler says that when
he began as carrier he travelled twenty
miles day for six days week. Allow
ing two weeks vacation every year,
there would be fifty working weeks in
which Mr.. Tyler Travelled 5000 miles.
The New York Herald says more peo-
pie over 100 years old are found in mild
climates than in the higher latitudes.
According to the last census of the Ger
man Empire, Of population of 55,0OO,-
900 only seventy-eight have passed the