Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-16
miscellaneous Items.


Cork hats have come into market this season
at Hamburg, Germany. They are light, but
unhealthy.
Hammeriest, Norway, is the most northern
town of Europe where newspaper is published.
IL is weekly, and is entitled FinmarkspoSten.
Daniel Mercer, though only forty-one, has
eighteen children, who fill all the seats in a viii
lage school at Liberty, Ohio. The cry is,
larger school house or fewer MERGERS.
The New York newsboys, with keen eye to
business, were calling out in the streets on Sat
urday afternoon, "Here's the Times extry-got
Oakley Halls escape to Europe" The mayors
wife and daughter took passage in the steamer
Caabria for Liverpool in the earlier part of the
day, and this fact had been perverted into the
fight of the mayor himself
Bismuth, which is very rare, comes principal
ly from Saxony, and, owing to the limited sup
ply, sells at very high price. 1t is, however,
reported that bismuth has been discovered in
large quantities at Balhannah, in South. Aus
tralia, where extensive smelling works have
just been erected for the purpose Of extracting
the metal from the ore.
AT the volunteer review held recently in Eng
land new style of drum was introduced. 1t
has but one head, and that is a thin plate of
STEEL 1t is said to have many advantages over
the drums heretofore in use; among Others, that
is more durable, not affected by dampness, and
easily kept in tune.
Honey bees were recently transmitted by mail
from distant point to Lancaster county, Pa,
in an ingenious manner. Four holes, about an
inch in circumference each, were bored with an
augur in a block of wood six inches long,
four inches wide and one inch and quart er
thick In each of these holes queen bee and
six males, the foundation of a colony or hive,
were confined by wire screen placed over the
aperture.
Electric waves, it has been ascertained by
Prof. Benz. A. Gould, are transmitted through
the Atlantic cables at velocity Of seven to
eight thousand miles per second. The electric
waves, it is stated, are conducted at more than
double the above velocity along wires supported
upon poles IN the air, and it is reported that the
higher the distance of the wires the greater is
the velocity of the current.
Paris papers state that the work of construct
ing Il tunnel across the English channel will
soon be commenced, on one side at Dieppe, and
on the other at Newhaven. The cost of the
work is estimated at S45,000,OO0, and six years
will be required for its completion.
Two miles from LeavenWorth, in Crawford
county, Indiana, there is an immense pile of
large parallelogram sandstones covering about
half an acre of ground, and it is firmly believed
mat these were quarried, dressed and trans
ported there by some ancient race who once in
habited that region. In addition to their having
square sides and being of great uniformity in
width, there is none of the same kind of stone
found elsewhere in the country, except two SIM
liar piles near the large one. The largest stones
are thirteen feet long and about four feet wide.
Mary Clemmer AmeS writes the Revolution
that the Sisters of st. John, in the city of Wash
ingtOn, are composed almost exclusively of
young ladies in the world, who voluntarily
leave it in turn for month at a time, to live
in hospital to nurse the children of the poor
l saw one, the daughter of a distinguished
officer, as she emerged last spring, worn by
days and nights of watching and nursing,
but with a light in her eyes which be-
longs to the saints. "My baby did not
die" she said, "that is pay enough" And
she put on once more the rich robe Of the world
and went "to receive" in her fathers house till
her month as "Sister" should call her back again
to watch and ward. Who can say that the Sisters
otsSt. Jonn, even i'll the gay world of the capital,
are not doing Chrsts work. Who will say that
the life OF any Christian woman, however lowly,
need he aimless or useless or beneath "the dig
nifty of being created in the likeness of GodP
Among the manuscripts which were probablv
burned in the recent cOnfagration Of the Arch
episcopal palace at Bourges, in France, the
most remarkable was, without doubt, that pur
porting to be the order for the execution of .Je
sus Christ, which was the personal property of
the family De la Tour dAuvergne. The order
runs thus:-
Jesus of Nazareth, of the Jewish tribe of Ju-
dab, convicted of imposture and rebellion
against the divine authority of Iiberus Auons
tus, emperor of the Romans, having for This
Sacrilege been condemned to die ON the cross
by sentence of the judge, Pontius PLATE, on the
prosecution of our lord, Herod, lieutenant of
the emperor in Judea, shall he taken tomorrow
morning, the 28d day of the ides of March. TO
the usual place of punishment under the escort
of a company of the Pratorian guard. The 80.
called king of the Jews shall be taken ont Inv
the Strunean gate. All the public officers and
the SUBJECTS OF the emperor are directed to lend
Their and to the execution of this sentence.
(sgned) CApE1.
Jerusalem, I'D day of the ides of March, year
of Rome, 1888.