Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-01

NAIsCeIIaneOus NhemSs
A valuable deposit of photographic stone has
been discovered in Owen county, Ind, which is
pronounced by scientific gentlemen connected
with the land Office at Washington to be fully
equal to any now imported from Germany.
The table on which the Versailles peace pre-
lminaries were signed has been presented to
Prince Bismarck as a souvenir, and stands in his
wite's room, a small silver plate recording its
historic significance.
Lord Butte, already one of the richest men in
the world, is shortly to marry Miss FOx-aniece
of Lady Holland-a Catholic lady of rare beauty
and accomplishments, and of wealth that is de-
scribed as princey.
Capt. Ami Cutter of Anoka, Mimi, is sim
guarly unfortunate individual, and it would
really seem as if all the elements had conspred
against him. In 1868 his saw mill was burned,
involving loss of S12,0 In 1864 a tornado
destroyed two-story warehouse belonging TO
him, unroofed his barn and damaged his resi-
dence. In 1867 his mill was burned again. in
volving loss of S85 000 In 1869 his grist mill
was carried away by flood, causing q loss of
$4,000; and the same year he lost $4,000 worth
oflogs by flood. To crown all, his saw mill was
struck by lightning few nights ago, and, to-
gether with his tub and pail factory and large
amount of material, was totally destroyed. This
was another loss of about $4,000, without any
insurance; and thus this one man has by these
several disasters lost over 100000.
Remarking upon the journal of the San Do
IultlHO COMMISSIONER LHe correspondent VI Iut
Cincinnati Gazette says: at should be observed
that the journal is nearly uniform in its opening
language, in a large plurality of cases reading:
The commission met, all members present. On
motion of Mr.. White, resolved - Occasion
ally Mr.. Howe got the start of Mr.. White; when,
for instance, from any cause the latter was alb
sent; but generally Mr.. White maintained him
self. The report shows that of the forty-eight
motions recorded in that portion of the journal
printed Mr.. White made twenty-eigbt, Mr.. Howe
fifteen and Mr. Wade five. These figures are
about in direct proportion to the importance
which the individual commissioners attached TO
themselves, and inversely as their modesty and
practical views were estimated by the rest of the
party"
The Kansas correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times says; pictures in the old Biographies
used TO represent the Indian standing solitary
and in melancholy attitude on a rock, gazing
in sad reflective way upon a train of cars
speeding along in the valley below. He seemed
weeping to see the steam horse invading his
hunting grounds, and overcome with gloomy
forebodings as to his future | saw the lonely
| Indian at the rail- Dad depot this morning. He
was grumbling because the train was few
minutes behind time, and cursed the depot
agtnt in good missionary English because he
did not hurry up and check his carpet bag.
He looked delighted when he saw the train
coming, shook hands with the conductor when
ii arrived borrowed a 'chaw terbacker of
brakeman, and, as the train moved away, saw
him comfortably stretched out on two seats eat
ing peanuts"
new signal light possessing most remark
able properties has now been brought out in En-
gland. Its peculiarities are, that it is selfignt
ing when placed in water or thrown on the
sea. Contact with water being the only means
of igniting the lamp, it is inextinguishable when
once ignited; neither wind nor storm has any
effect upon the fame. The light is of intense
brlliancy, and of great duration, and can be
60 I;cto, -, fla air Dhn-
tographS may be taken by ii. Experiments
were tried on the evening of the 25th of April,
at ten O'Clock in the presence of some scientific
gentlemen, to determine its brilliancy as sig
nal. A lamp was placed in bucket of water on
the top Of Primrose hill, London, and the light
was so intense that, after the signal had been
burning for twenty minutes, small newspaper
print could be distinctly read at Il distance of
seventy feet Notwithstanding that the night was
thick and loggy. This light will burn for forty
minutes. In construction the lamp is exceed
ingly simple, and so contriyed that when once
burned the whole may be thrown away. The
chemical preparation contained in the lamp is a
solid, hard substance, free from danger; not
affected by heat and so non-explosive and the
signal is comparatively inexpensive. Its appli-
cations for marine signals are numerous. In
case of shipwreck, a few lamps thrown on the
sea would Illuminate the entire scene, and en-
able assistance TO be promptly and efficiently
rendered. For rocket-line apparatus it is equally
valuable, as, bursting into fame on falling
into the sea- it would indicate the position of the
rocket-line. In connection with life-buOys, it
would be mark to the drowning sailor.
CONTENTS OF COPS STOMACH. - The
Dutch have an adage to the effect that che who
looks for strange things must, to be successful,
look for them in strange places" Guided by
sort of instinct very much akin to the philoSo-
ply of the Batavian prOverb, we have for many
years been In the habit of carefully and mi
nutely examining the contents OF the stomach
of every fish of any size that comes into our
possession either by capture or purchase, and
taking a note of such odds and ends as we may
meet with in what occasionally prove rather I'M
savory researches.
A few days ago we got hold of a large cod in
excellent condition, and of some ten or twelve
pounds weight, and as it was being dressed for
dinner we proceeded to an examination of the
stomach, which was very much distended as
full as it could hold in fact, giving every prom
Use of "ind" that might abundantly repay
the trouble of a minute investigation of its
contents. On Sitting the stomach Longitude
nally with sharp pocket knife, its bulkier con-
tents were found to consist of no less than
three Writings of rather more than halEa-pound
each, which must have been recently gorged,
nearly at the same moment, and probably from
this same shoal, for they we're at the same stage
of decomposition, the process of digestion hav-
ing as yet hardly macerated the epdermis. The
three lay in the stomach with their heads to-
wards the @SophaguS, or mouth of the stomach,
so that as a rule it may be fairly concluded that
the cod swallows such fish as it can catch tail
foremost
Putting all this aside, and searching further,
we found tobacco pipe, common clay of
the ordinary form, the bowl whole and COM
plete, with about an inch of shaft to it. EX-
ternally the pipe was white, and clean, and
somewhat graduated and cOrroded from the ac-
ton of the gastric juice, but inside the bowl
bore evident marks of having been smoked not
long before the cod took it into his head TO have
pull at it, Having laid the pipe carefully
aside, with an internal resolve to have asmoke out
of it some day on splicing a new shaft to the
stump, we continued our investigation, and in
the very bottom of the stomach, among some
mucus and the half digested remains of crusta-
ceR, we found a brass button Of elegant and
curious workmanship. Ii would require no
great ingenuity to form a plausible enough
hypothesis as to how the broken pipe might
have come in the Gods way. The brass button
puzzles one more; its history, if one could fol-
low it from first to last, might perhaps, like the
Adventures of a Guinea" be found fuller of
interest and even tragic in incident than one
could at first sight have considered possible.
Both button and pipe we hold as curiosties, and
we hope that the hint regarding fish's NAV
being not unlikely place for queer and curious
finds" may not be lost sight Of by the reader.
Some Of the rarest crustaceans and molluseus of
among the half-digested contents of such recep-
tacles.-ScOtch Paper.
MAzzINI ON THE CoMdUNIsTs.-In an ar
ticle on "The Commune and the Assembly," in
the Roma del PopolO, Mazzini writes: "The orgie
of fury, of vengeance and blood, of which Paris
has offered the spectacle to the world would fill
our soul with despair If we had merely an opin-
ion and not a faith. A people which wallows
about as if drunk raging against itself with its
teeth and lacerating its limbs while bowling tri-
umphal cries; which dances an Internal, dance
before the grave it has dug with its own hands;
which kills, tortures, burns, committing crimes
without sense, aim, or hope; vocilerates like the
fool, who sets fire to his own pile before the
eyes of the foreign foe against whom it did not
know how to ight-suchla people puts us in
mind of some of the most horrid visions of
Dante's hell" "The doings of both parties in
France" Mazzini says, care marked by an
Trokese ferocity,' by an insane bloodthirsti-
ness more characteristic of wild beasts than of
H.,