Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-13
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London cabman has lately recovered dam
ages from woman who delayed his business by
being too fat TO get into his cab.
diamond excitement prevails in 1ankton,
DacOtah. Several gems have been found, in
Guiding one valued at 100000
An excellent route has been found for the At
lantlc and Pacific railway from the White noun
tains in Arizona to the Colorado river.
The Welsh GOLFERS refuse TO continue work UNI
less the strangers recently imported to supply
the places of the strikers are dismissed from the
mines. Serious disturbances are apprehended.
A son of William Magnn, author of Homeric
ballads and a former keen writertor Blackwood's,
is now "boots" at hotel in Bath, England. He
is a man of no intellectual capacity to speak of,
and some of his fathers old friends are trying TO
do something to help him along.
An International exhibition is to be held in
Peru IN December next. 1t is the first affair of
the kind ever held in South America. The chief
prizes open for competition to all nations, are
two gold medals, valued at $1,000 and $500 re-
spectively.
The two states most nearly balanced in point
of population are Georgia 1.-THE empire state OF
the sOuth) and Michigan. According to the COM
plete official returns Georgia has 1,1S4,1 in
habitants, and Michigan 1874, 059-Georgia
leading by Just fifty. In 1860 Georgia had i ,507,-
2S6 inhabitants; Michigan 749,113.
Victoria WoOdhull is announced TO have taken
q house in Washington for next winter, where
she will establish a rendezvous for such people
as belong to her set, into which she will try, by
the elegance of her public receptions and other
arts with which she is conversant, to attract as
many congressman and politicians as possible.
The Reichsrath of Germany has Just taken a
long step in promotion of public recttude, by
abolishng the gaming Centers of the couEtry,
though they have good lease yet, not being
Obliged TO close till the last Of December, S72.
Wicsbaden Ems, BaGen and Hombourg are all
to be shut off from their hitherto enormous rev.
enucs from this source. The latter place pays
the government fine Of S350,O00 year, and
the expense of keeping the grounds in order is
$4,000 per annum, all of which comes out OF
the unlucly gamesters. They tried to gain the
favor of the emperor, but he told them that he
had nothing to do with the question, which had
already been decided by the Reichsrath. The
company now proposes to move to Swiss ground
TO carry on their business.
A private letter has been received by gem
tleman in Washington from Capt. S. o, Bud
dington, sailing master of United States steam
or Polaris, G. +. Hall commanding. The letter
is dated Port Good Haven, Greenland August
10th, and relates mostly to private matters.
Capt. Buddington says they were all ready for
starting north with the best set Of officers and
crew that he ever saw on board ship, and have
everything required to make the voyage success
full, and his honest prayer is that success may
attend their efforts. Dispatches to the navy de-
partment have already announced that the Po-
aris sailed the day succeeding the date of the
tue expedition has, if no accident befell it, by
this time made considerable progress toward the
pole.
On the authority of two persons of veraety,
a correspondent of the Albany journal tells this
"They saw a wasp riding on a green worm one
and n half inches long. How far he had ridden
they did not know; but after they saw him they
watched him until he had ridden all of twenty
five feet. Occasionally the worm would stop,
lie motoness as though he was dead, when the
wasp, after a little, would spur him up, and
then the worm would 90 on. The wasp would
keep the worm in as direct a course as he could.
After while the worm stopped, and the wasp
dismounted and ran quickly and removed little
stone or piece of ground about two inches from
where the worm lay, and then SciZing the worm
by the head drew it into the hole Presently the
wasp came out, put on the gravel top over the
hole, covered the stone over, and seemed to be
getting ready to fly, when they killed him, and
then dug down about two inches and took out
the worm, which was dead"
Biologists have long taught that at least the
west coast of Greenland is slowly sinking below
the sea. This doctrine is confirmed by DIR.
Brown who recapitulates the principal points of
the evidence on which it rests. The following
are amongst the facts he enumerates: Near the
end of the last century a small rocky island was
observed to be entirely submerged at springtide
high water, yet on it were the remains of a
house rising six feet above the ground; fifty
years later the submergence had so far increased
that the ruins alone were ever left above water.
The foundations Of an old storehouse, built on
an island in 1776, are now dry only at low water.
The remains of native houses are in one locality
seen beneath the sea. In 1858 the Moravian
mission establishment was founded about two
miles from Fiskern@sset, but in thirty years they
were obliged to move at least once the posts on
which they rested their large Onld6eS or seal skin
boats Some of the posts may yet be seen under
water. The dwellings ofseveral Greenland fam
lilies, who lived on Savage Point from 1921 to
1876, are now overlooked by every tide, In one
locality the ruins of old Greenland houses are
only to be seen at low water.