Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-01
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Lake Pepin on the Upper Mississippi, has
an average width of one mile and one-half,
and is deep enough to float the largest vessels
Soundings show very uniform depth, vary
ing from twenty five to thirty-six feet. Three
rods from the shore the water is twenty-five
feet Deep and for distance of one hundred
and thirty-two rods, measuring across the lake,
the depth does not vary one inch from thirty
two feet 1t is one of the most beautiful sheets
of water in the country, and abounds in the
most delicious fish.
California paper says a miner on Gold
Hill Columbia county, sat one day on pile of
rocks, complaining of his hard fortune, and
throwing stones from the pile on which he
was sitting into reservoir that was near, from
mere wantonness, not having anything to de-
Another man, a curious one, picked up the
pieces of rock, examined them, and upon
pounding one obtained S207 worth of gold
from it. Subsequently piece of quartz near
the same place yielded $4,000.
Avoid quotations, unless you are well
studied in their import, and feel their peril
nence. My friend -, the other day, while
looking at the skeleton of an ass, which had
been dug out of a sandpit, and admiring and
wondering at the structure of that despised
animal, made very mdLadrou use of one
"Ah - said he, with the deepest humility, and
a simplicity worthy of La Fontaine, sue are
fearfully and wonderfully madep
Michael Maginnis, a Waterman on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, walked over a preci-
pice of one hundred and twenty eight feet at
the Pack Saddle Falls, near Pttsburg, last
Friday night. He managed to crawl to a
neighboring house, and was still alive at last
accounts" says an exchange. Where is Peter
Schlemil? He must look to his laurels.
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ping of timbers on the Newburyport bridge, on
Monday, just in season to save himself, and
witness the precipitation of the draw and his
cart and oxen, in one confused mass into the
Merrimac. The leading yoke of oxen were
disengaged and drawn ashore. The others
were drowned.
Leavenworth city, Kansas, although only
four years old, contains population of 10,460,
with an assessed valuation of 1851 .375. 1t
has nine churches, ten schools, four daily and
four weekly papers, seven job-printng offices,
eighty-nine lawyers, and forty doctors.
A German named Kraus died in the Pitts
burg Pal Jail few nights since passing away
so quietly that his companions had no admoni-
ton of his departure, and in the morning it
was found that the rats had devoured the great
er part of the unfortunate mans face.
Since the beginning of the present month,
Mr.. Ihos. Vance, of Lindon, Me-, has buried
six children. The disease which swept away
nearly whole family was typhoid fever of a
very malignant type.
The Cincinnati papers say an elephantine
specimen of horse flesh has been exhibited on
Third street, in that city. 1t was an English
agricultural stallion, sixteen hands three inch
es high, weighing about eighteen hundred
pounds.
The State of Ohio has purchased $50, 900
worth fbooks of the Messrs. Appleton of New
York, for its school libraries The books
weigh seventy-eght tons, and measure TWEEN
ty-fye cords.