The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-08-22
The proportion The State, in epery $50, 900
From a Lirerpool Paper.
ODDS AND ENDS

A first rate anchor weighs about three tons.
employs 20 men for 40 days IN making, and
COSTS E400.
Children may be hanged in England at IL
years OF age, and married in Scotland at IA
Ths last three Dukes of Atho planted alto
gether upwards OF fourteen millions os larch
and other trees
1t is thirteen hundred years since the first
house in Edinburgh was built Glasgow is of
an equal antiquity.
At the time when Addison was writing the
Spectator the Scotch were burning witches
AT the period that the peasanlry of England
we're burning threshing mills, those in Scotland
were establishing scientific and literary associ.
atoms
At the Cape of Good Hope, says traveller.
people die very fast; but the sheep have re.
markably large tails"
Corns may be etiectually extrpated by plac.
ing on them the scrapings Of chalk mi xed with
vinegar.
There is not Protestant place of worship in
Ireland in which the native Irish tongue is
preached
Auctions were fist introduced into England
in the year 1900.
In SPAN, in the year 1926. there were 1898
men committed for murder. 1873 for attempts
10 commit murder, and 1920 for robbery.
ANEcDorE OF RACE HoRsEs. In the summer
of 1881, while Capt. 7. and Lieut.. r. of the u
S Army, we're engaged on a survey at Canton
near Baltimore, they had frequently noticed
Bachelor and Jumping Jenny, at pasture in the
field of old Canton course. Ono day after jlay.
ing some time, the two horses were observed
to walk up lelsurely, side by side, TO the Judges
stand where they stood for moment and then
started and ran two rounds out regularly. AT
Ter the heat, they played together for few mo,
ments, when they again walked up, side BY
side, stood at the judges stand as in the first
heat, and again started and ran another heat Of
two rounds.
The year 1869 is remarkable for the birth of
many iinstrions men. Napoleon, Wellington,
Castlereagh, Walter Scott, Schiller, Culver.
Cbateaubyland, and Canning, were born in tina,
year, when the star of intellect must have been
in its zenith. The most distinguished warriors
naiuralists poets, and statesmen OF the aye
were born in the same year, and with the ex.
cepiion Of Chateaubriand none were of exalted
family.
man in Westminster being at a loss what ex.
cusc to make to about the twentieth Applicant n
for rates by one of tho collectors of the Chelsea
Water works, at length informed him that her
husband had recently died Of the cholera, and
that she had also been seized with that dread
ln disorder but (added she) if you'll walk ln
III see if can make up The money. The coIcc'
tor, petretied with terror, shut his book instant
ly, and boltcd out Of the house faster than he
had entered.--E English paper.
STRAW. Old straw, grass or weeds, inject |
almost all vegetable substances, greatly ehtlcn
aud improve land if poughed in. lhey ler
ment in the earth, and the gases gene,rfia'co
thereby make the soil light and loose "nefe
the straw rots in a heap these gases all escape
Heaps of straw made by threshIng maeh'nes'
should therefore DO spread out, and while one
man is poughng, boy should rake the straw
the 10 be s.'sd actual BY os "sa of %
MIRO rs we'll as a loss of labor, in pilng up
BARNARD manure to rot, The warmth the ga.
Sos. ne. o. created by its slower fermentation
m The soil wosld be Of great utility 1t the new
manure from the barnyatd were cufted out IN
hc Spring and carefully ploughed in before 1t
loses any thing by fermentation or evaporation