Worcester daily spy., 1871-11-11

miscellaneous Items.
The st. Louis democrat" publishes letter
from Knobnoster, Mo-, which says that at that
place rain has fallen continuously for two weeks
from 4 cloudless sky, the space moistened
being only twenty feet in diameter.
Natural gas wells are becoming very thick in
PaineSvile, o.. and one has been discovered
near the seminary there which is more tnan
sufficient to supply that institution with light
and heat.
Ex-Goys. Lowe, Kirkwood and Stone, togeth-
er with Gov Merrill, who were s0iourning at
Demoines. la., recently equipped themselves
with musical instruments and screnaded Col.
Carpenter, the governor elect of Iowa.
A contributor to Mature" in an article on
Magnetic Storms in Higher l.atudcs," in
which, however, he strangely confOundS the
above with electric earth-curents, states that
on October Is, 1871, magnetic disturbances
electric earth-currentSl of such intensity pre-.
vailed, that the Exeter express train was de-
tanned sixteen minutes by the needles of the
telegraph being DETECTED so powerfully that it
was impossible TO ascertain if the road was
clear.
About two years AGO Edward Agan of Troy,
N. Y, attempted suicide by shooting himself
with a Colts revolver The ball lodged in his
brain, and the physician called to attend him
said he could not live but Il few hours. He still
lives however, with the bullet in the left hemis-
phcre of the brain, the most remarkable in
stance of endurance on record, with the eXcep-
tion of the man who had a crowbar shot through
brain and skull while blasting, and yet recov-
cred.
At Mandaav, in Burmah, Il woman and her
two children enjoy the (according to Mr.. Dar-
VIM ancient and honorable privilege of having
Il growth of hair over their foreheadS, noses
and chinS, of from three to twelve inches long,
and in texture like that on a Skye terrier;
while the hair on their heads is the same us any
ordinary Burman. The father Of the woman
was the first to confer this distinction on his
family, which seems TO pass well at court, for
the king will not permit them to leave his do
minionS.
A writer in the Times says that the imposing
monuments of the "Stone-age" at Avebury
have been so long used rs stone quarry that
scarce anything now remains. In Charles lis
time between two and three hundred stones
were standing, and DIR. Stukely then wrote that
it was as superior to stOnehenge as Il cathedral
is TO a parish church. Two-thirds of the great
er circular mound by which it was enclosed and
twenty stones are all that exist; the rest has
all gone into the walls Of cottages churches,
bridges, stone fences and the roads. A beer
shop was built out of a single stone
The London crystal palace aquarium is four
hundred feet long and seventy feet broad, and
the total capacity of all the tanks is 200 900 gal
Ions of wafer weighing a million pounds OF
sea anemones alone there are already in the
aquarium over three thousand specimens These
h)wer-like animals being deprived in their cap
tivity of the ocean currents which bring them
their food, have to be fed at frequent intervals,
having given to it u morSal of food suited TO its
size
Febrine, the devastating scourgc of the silk
worm, is now rapidly decreasing under the rules
of treatment laid down by Pasteur, whose long
and patient microscopic observations have re.
suited in attOrding some indications as to those
eggs which should be destroyed TO prevent the
hpf INN ,f,l
tenth of the French silk worm breeders used
this method OF detection, and in Il few years it
and the wearing of silk dresses will be in uni
rerSal practice.
"Her'e yer nice roas chick n, " cried an aged
colored man, as the ears stopped at Virginia
railroad station. "HereS yer roas chirl'n taters
all nice and hot" holding his plate aloft and
walking the platform. "W here did you get that
chicken, uncle" asks passenger. Uncle looks
at the intruder sharply and then turns away,
crying, Here's yer nice roaS chck'n, gent'm,
all hot; needn't 20 into de house for dat "
Where did you get that chicken" repeats the
lnqWslilVe passenger. 'Look-a-yerP says
uncle, speaking privately, "is you from de
Norf !" eyes" /" SIS You Il friend ofcullcd mani"
81 hope am" "Den don't you nebber ask me
whar got dat chick'n. Here's yer nice roas
chick'n, all hot"
Bitumnous coal was mined near Richmond,
Va, as early as in 100. 1t was extensively
used in the vicinity in 1875, and Richmond
foundry employed it in making shot and shell
during the revolution. 1t was Sent TO Boston.
Philadelphia and New York in 1889 Obadiah
Gore aud his brother, blackSmiths from Con
nectcut, were the first TO make use of anthracite
coal in the Wyoming PA valley in 1858
Judge Jesse Fell of Wilkesbarre, was the first to
apply it to household uses. Philip Ginter, a
hunter in the Mauch Chunk region, discovered
the Lehigh coal in 1891. Mines were opened in
1892, but it was ten years later before the coal
was sent to Philadelphia. The Schuykiu coal
was first sent to Philadelphia IN 1872.
Thomas NaSts carncaturcs in Harpers' Week
ly have been most efficient aid in the warfare
upon corruption in New York. 1t is not per
haps too much to say that they have done as
much as all the speakers and writers combined
for the discontinue Of the ring. MIR. Mast has
been tempted in vain by threats and promises
to desist from his warefare upon rammany. He
said to the correspondent of a western news
paper: "Ihey have threatened my life. IN fact
have sent my family out of town, that they may
not be witnesses Of any bloody work of these
murdcrOus Irish mObS during election times.
The most cOnsoling thing TO me is that feel
certain that am hurting somebody, for | have
had all sorts OF offers made me by certain gen
tlemen, and knew they came directly from the
rammany Catholic throne. One was S1000 900
IN gold to do nothing in Europe for three years.
They knew no sum on earth could induce me to
lift my pencil in their favor; but they presumed
on their seductive golden egg when trying TO
pacate me with such magnificent offer of law
luxury"
Having read an untavorable notice in LIE Flo
arc, Mile. Hss0n hired hack and ordered the
driver to take her to the door of lie Figaro's mu-
sical critic (M. Jouyin). She sent up for him
"A lady whom he does not know wishes to speak
TO him." NJ. JOuvin went down stairs and
found waiting at his garden gate fury. who
bawed, DO you recognize me?' NJ Jouyin is
one OF the most near-sighted men in Paris. and
he would probably have been obliged to say no
had he not recognized Mile. Hisson'S voice She
continued: "YOu are blackguMdl You have
killed me! Had given you money YOU would
have praised me. | don't know what keeps me
from boxing your ears" NJ. Jouyin quietly re.
piled: "YUur good sense" These words were
scarcely out of his mouth when Mile Hsson
sprang towards him with clenChed fists. He
seized her hands, held her tightly, and said
You must be crazy to act in this way for box
as well as you may, good boxing will not give
you good talents as songstress" More angry
than ever she returned to the hack screamed TO
M. Jouyin, Consider your ears boxed" and
ordered the driver to take her home.
A Sacramento lady found herself under suspi-
ciOn of larceny the other day under rather pecu-
liar circumstances. She was riding in a crowd
ed railway car, and occupied a seat with an
other lady passenger. Like great many other
women OF the present day she wore curls-her
own hair, of course, but it wasn't fastened on
stflctly according to natures programme. By
and'by, as the train iOlted along, she felt some
thing falling about her face and neck, and in
second 1t flashed across her brain that her curls
mad become detached! The predicament was a
shocking one, but she eudeayOred 10 save her
self as much as possible by quietly passing the
capillary ornament into her pocket, thanking
her stars that she was almost at her destination
At the station she hastened to the DRESSING
room to repair damages TO her toilet. when be.
hold! the mirror reflected back the fact that her
curls were in their proper position an an ex-
animation OF those in her pocket showed that
they were not hers, but of Il different color,
ana belonging to the lady who sat by her side
in the car.
PROGRESS IN CHINA.-James Brooks writes
to the New York Express from Pekn as follows:
Gan event has just occurred which will
hasten the erection of teegraphs. The grand
Pekin council of scholars have Just awarded
twOcompctitive prizes 10 two Cantonese scholars,
the highest honors of the empire. The news
was sentrom Shanghai by sea telegraph to Hong
Kong, and reached Canton days before the news
could come overland. The Cantonese were as
founded, and dscredited the intelligence until the
long-looked-ior Pckn Official Gazette came over
land and confirmed it. Then there was wonder
aud marvel over that intelligence and all China
from north TO south, is asking if il will do to
give foreigners the means Of more rapid inter
course with the exterior of our empire than we