Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-26

citizen of Reading, Pa, is said TO ), nave
m0urned the death of thirty-siX of his cnlldreh'
He is now tifty-fve years old, has had three
wives, and has four children living.
Two respected citizens of Missouri, VINO pur-
sued, caught and hanged horse thief. were met
on their way home with the stock by some nc
completes Of the thief, and were themselves
hung.
The author of "Goody Two Shoes"-a present
or past acquaintance of most of us-was, as
found by recent discovery, Mr.. Giles Jones,
resident secretary of the York buildings wafer
company, London, and not Oliver Goldsmith, TO
whom it has been generally attributed.
A poetcal western editor says: I'VE are in
receipt of TWO poems, one on the 'IhrooDlng
Brain and the other on Beating Heart we
we will wait until we receive one on the 'Stom-
ach Ache and publish all three together"
Chicago's 299, 900 inhabitants are nearly equal
" divided between natives and foreigners, the
former being only 10000 ahead of the latter.
OF the foreigners $4,000 are German, 4O,OOO
Irish, 10000 English, 5000 Norwegian, 5000
Canadians, 5000 Swedish, 5000 Bohemians,
1000 Scotch. New York has $4,000 natives in
Chicago, Massachusetts 5000, Ohio 5000, Con-
necticut 2000, Vermont 220O, and Maine 1900
California has found grass that will live
through her dry summers, and is sowing its
seed very widely over the state. II is called
"alfalfa," and a single house in San Francisco
sold 1000 pounds of it in a single day. 1t is
claimed for it that 1t will not only stand the
drouth, but be more productive than the native
grasses, and less expensive to cultivate than
wheat and oats grown for hay.
Tree planting in Nebraska is prosecuted at
lively rate. One day 10000 trees passed through
one town to farmers further west. A com
pany of Swedes have contracted for Il, 900 cot
tonwoods to set out on their farms. This tree
planting is now regular routine OF agricultural
settlement, and cannot fail to produce the most
beneficial effects upon the climate and pro-
ducfiVp mower of that yOuuU state.
The Brownville, Nebraska, Advertiser, has
discovered paradox in geography, or, in other
words, a part of Nebraska in Missouri. 1t
afflrms that while most people believe that the
state of Nebraska is all west of the Missouri,
such is not the case. It was true when most
Biographies were mapped, and few there are
that now know that the Big Muddy by cutting
across the neck of peninsula, has thrown four
thousand acres OF Nemaha county over into
Missouri, or, in other words, on the east side of
the river. This portion of Nemaha county is
situated near to Hamburg, in Iowa, and con-
tains a population OF two hundred people and
many fine farms. 1t forms one school district,
and contains a good school house, and fifty
scholars between five and twenty one years of
age.
The largest newspaper in the world is said to
be the Hereford (England) Times, established in
1882. 1t is published weekly, consists of two
sheets, each consisting of eight pages, each page
of seven columns-in all 112 columns, the col
umns being longer than those of the London
Times, and each page containing one more col
umn than a page of the Times. In addition,
railway table of seven columns is published
every month and given away with the news
paper, the price Of the whole being three and
half cents. A notable feature is the indices-one
index referring to every department Of news and
advertisements, and the other referring to the
auction advertisements, the latter forming a
distinguishing feature. The paper is published
in a cathedral city of less than 10000 inhab-
itants. The average circulation exceeds 10000
copies, and the advertisements during 1870 num-
bered more than 10000.