Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-14

An Ohio inventor claims to have devised a
| process for converting iron into steel of so
liquid quality that it can b. cast into threads
and ready sharpened edge tools all at one pro-
| cess.
Some clever fellow has invented a new kind
Of ink, called Glove letter ink" 1t is "a sure
preventive against all cases Of breach of promise,
as the ink fades away, and leaves the sheet
blank in about four weeks after being written
upon.
western Ipreacher explained the passage
through the Red sea by saying that the Israel
ties crossed on the ice. An auditor interrupted
remarking there is no ice under the equator
"Sir," said the excited preacher, "this happened
thousands OF years before the age of geogra.
phers, and before there was any equatorl
think, brethren and sisters, have answered the
| gentleman completely"
A member of the Arkansas legislature in
speaking on an eXtravagant appropriation, in
dignantly exclaimed: Gentlemen, talk about
adequate compensation Of public servants
Why, sir, during the late war was in thirty
seven battles, was wounded thirteen times in
the cause of the south, and the entire pay re-
ceived was $1a in confederate money, every
cent of which gave for one glass of old rye
whiskey,"
The people of Louisville are greatly dscour.
aged over an unsuccessful attempt to coonze
English sparrowS in that city. An agent sent
10 England succeeded i'll procuring two thou
sand of the birds, but lost eighteen hundred of
them on the passage home AS the sparrow
breeds rapidly, however, great expectations
were entertained from the two hundred remain
ing. But no preparations had been made to
retain the feathered immigrants; there were no
boxes put up to attract them; and the citizens
Of Jacksonville, across the river, observing
this, with characteristic perfdy," as Louis.
vile paper expresses it, built sparrow boxes on
speculation, and succeeded in hiving the whole
colony.
AT Newcastleon-Tyne, England, a gentleman
boosted to a friend that he could introduce to
him an engineer of more wonderful skill than
Robert Stephenson, who had made himself fa-
nous by perfecting the railway locomotive, In
fulfment of the boast, he brought out glass
tumbler containing a little searlet-oolored spi,
der, whose beauty, with its bright yellow nest
on sprlg of lauruStinus, had induced a young
lady to pluck it from the bush where it was
growing. When brought into the house it was
placed on the mantel-pece, and secured by plac-
ing a glass over it, In very short time this
wonderful little engineer contriyed to accom-,
plish the herculean task of raising the sprig of
laurustlnus, weight several hundred times
greater than itself to the upper part of the
glass; and attaching it there so firmly that, after
forty years, it is still suspended, where it was
hung by the spider,
Henry Ward Beecher has a son-in-law who.
being practical as well theoretical laborer in
the cause of religion, is evidently son,in-law
a !. the father-ln-law,s own heart, His name
~ t'NS!iiSi "hd ny pltdfues ~ NOTWlOil,
n. \. He will occupy Mr. Beecher's pulpit
during the latter,s vacation, 'SThis rising young
clergyman" says the New York Standard, "is
known, not only for his oratorcal abilities of
the Beecher order, but also for the wonderful
success which has attended his exertions as
muscular Christian, As captain of base ball
nine, and foreman of volunteer fire COMPANY,
he has reformed the village green, making the
former haunt Of sWearers, smokers and gam
hleis' place where men assemble to worship
their Maker, while they develop His perfect like
ness in their athletic bodies. 1t is said that, of
all his subordinates in the two associations
mentioned, there not now a profane or otherwise
immoral man 70 be found, thanks to the praeti-
cal piety Of their chief,n