Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-12
Neutrality-suspicious.

A friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson met him in
the Yosemite Valley, and said, 81 hope Won feel
no disappointment here" ono, no, !" said he,
lit is the only thing that quite comes up to the
brag."
The sudden but not unexpected death is an.
nounced of the only literary lEuropean) paper
published in China-the Notes and Queries of
Hong Kong. The publication began in Janu-
airy, 1867. Since then it has experienced many
ycissitudes, and recently the copyright was sold
by auction for one dollar
A letter which George Washington wrote to
the common council of New York after the rev.
olutionary war; was stolen fromithe corporation
library, some time ago, and sold at auction for
$1,000. The thief has never been discovered but
the district attorney brought suit for the LET.
ter,swhich has just been successful the litigation
costing the city over ,OO0
The animals at Central Park, New York have
the most careful medical treatment and when
any OF them die, a post-mortem examinations
made 10 discover the cause of death. careful
diagnosis of their cases is made, and remedies
applied to suit the phases of the disease, as with
human beings.
A discovery has lately been made in the value
and properties of a shale found in abundance in
certain parts Of Colorado and Wyoming, Upon
experiment it was found that half a pint of ne
troleum was contained in a pound of the sbale.
SIas also OF superior quality was generated
from II. II is thought this discovery NAV lead
to its general use for gas and other purposes.
man named Balloon, agent of the Indian
reservation at Lake Pyramid, California, has
erected a dam and Hume where the Truckee river
empues into the lake, fiom which he takes by
net ana spear, two tons Of silver trout day
inns process will very soon exhaust the fish
hitherto very abundant in both the lake and riy-
er, and should be stopped, but as there is no law
!" r reaeh MN the inhabitants propose lynching.
Cloves are the dried unexpanded buds Of the
Grove tree, celebrated spice cultivated on the
Island OF Amboyna, in Sumatra, Zanzibar.
Bouroon and Cayenne; the culture and trade in
TINS article was monopoly in the hands Of the
Dutch for many years. The imports into tho
United States are about two hundred tbonsand
pounds annually, and into England about one
| million. The name is derived from the resem.
blance of the spice to small nails, and in All
countries it is called by name having this sic.
| MITIGATION.
| A rival to the natural sponge is now produced
from rubber by a process of inflammation
which combines the compaetness and elasticity
| required Of abath-sponge in such degree that
it will very likely find an extensive application
| The color of this sponge is generally dark gray
| but brown ones are also found. Large quaint.
| ties are sold TO livery stables, where they are
used TO clean horses, in place of the ordinary
combs, the advantages claimed for them being
| that they take the dust more completely away
that no hairs are detached by them, and thai
they give TO the hair fnerluster. Sponges are
| also laurlcateu IOr cleaning CLOTH Eats, ribbons
gloves, mirrors, windows, etc. These sponees
are preferable to the ordinary ones, being free
from sand, and capable, by reason of their great.
En- elasticity, of adapting themselves to every
several instances have lately occurred of per.
;ols having attained great age who have been
nEe.erage smokers, and here is another case in
point Inc English census return for Stock.
port Lane lancashire, contains the name of MARY
Jane nan, who completed her one hundredtf
birthday in July last. She is an inmate Of tIe
STOCKPORT union workhouse. He husband dieS
in 1851, at the age of 100; her father who serve
as British soldier in the first America 10 , .vc
died at the age of 107 and her mother AZ ,bo a,,,
Of 105 The remains of both lie in the 'o ora %
yard at Astbury church, near Congleton. Mrs
Hall is the only survivor of a family Of 20 chi
dren-10 boys and 10 girls-none of whom die,
under the age Of 30. Several of them lived /
be 50. She is in the possession of all her facul
ties, and can thread cambria needle withou
the aid Of spectacles. She has been a smoke
Tor more than fifty years, and on being informe
, by the governor of the workhouse that i
would allow her an extra bit of tobacco or &c
from his Own private store, she had no hesita
: hon IN deciding in favor Of the "baccy."