Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-15

Glen Mary, that charming spot in the Cats
kills, has been made utterly unsightly by pro-
fuse Spreading OF signs and advertisements for
quack medicines.
The first line of stages between New York and
Boston was established in 1732-a coach leaving
each city once month; fourteen days were re-
qured to complete the journey.
Virginia farmers complain of the scarcity of
watef-streams never known to fail before are
entirely dry-and some are compelled to drive
their stock from their own farms to procure
sutficiency OF water.
"Humph" said an Englishman to a Scotch
man, as they were walking over the fields, "oats
are all vefy well in their way, but in England
we feed them to our horses, while here they are
food for men" can just see what fine horses
there are in England and what fine men we have
in ScOtlandP
A new fire-damp alarm has been invented, con-
sistng of a piece of cotton, rendered more COM
bustible by being impregnated with Saltpeter,
which is placed within the wire gauze of a
safety lamp. When the air within the lamp be-
comes explosive the cotton takes fire and re-
leasing a lever and balance wheel to which it is
attached, bell is rung, giving timely warning
TO the miners.
Captain Grant, of Wyoming, while chasing
chicken the other day, encountered a clothes
line which hit him in the mouth His momen-
tum carried the line back TO its fullest tension,
and the rebound threw him eight or ten feet. As
the line left his mouth it took out three teeth and
all that part of the jaw bone in which they were
imbedded, so that they now remain solid togeth-
er in the part as it cameout.
Commander Adams, of the United States
steamer lroquois, has made report on the sub
ject OF the Suez canal, which he visited and
passed through in May. He says the canal is
fifty feet wide aud at least twenty-iour feet wide
all the way. The sand from the desert does not
nil 1t up, and ship 400 feet long passed through
lately without any accident or detention. 1t is
more used now than ever before. The average
TsAla IS Hnat= 6, . Ia
month. The company allow no faster rate of
motion than five and a half knots an hour.
Six splendid ZebraS, valued at $500 apiece,
have just arrived at the Jardin discrimination,
in Paris, as present from the new emperor of
Abyssinia. IL is prevalent idea that the zebra
is untamable, but NJ. Geoffroy Saint Hilaire,
who has already made Sundry experiments in
contradiction of this opinion, has determined to
prove its fallacv by taking a drive down the
Champs Elysees some time during this month in
| coach drawn by six Abyssinian zebras.
A Chinese fish company in San Francisco
have been supplying customers with trout for
some time past. The fish were sold by the
pound. Lately the fish got into the habit of
swallowing such innutritious substances as
scrap iron, &c, thereby in many instances al
most doubling their weight. AT least the fish
ermen disclaim all knowledge of the mystery.
"For weighs that are dark" &c.
A Scotch law lord was seated one day on the
hillside of Bonally with Scotch shepherd, and
observing the sheep reposing in what he thought
the coolest situation, he observed TO him: John,
if were a sheep would lie on the other side of
the HILL" The shepherd answered, CAY, my
loard, but if We had been a sheep We wad have
had mair sense"
A Louisanian has invented method of eX-
tracing bee honey from the comb by means of
a centrifugal process, which accomplShes the
work without breaking the comb further than
uncapping the cells. The comb is then replaced
in sliding compartments fitted TO the hive, and
the bees at once commence to refill the cells,
thus saving the labor of constructing twenty
pounds of comb, bee bread and wax, in order
to preserve one pound ofhoney.
The Pittsburg Commercial is authority for
this statement "The recent publication, entitled
the Life of Lincoln, was not written by Ward
Ii. Lamon, whose name appears as the author,
but by ChaunceY Black, sou of jeremiah Black,
Mr.. Buchanan's attorney general. Lamon
gathered much of the material and as a close
friend of Mr.. Lincoln permitted his name to be
used by Black as the author The two have
had n falling out, Lamon being of the opinion
that some things in the book should have been
Omitted-whch is to his credit. The enterprise
appears to have been speculation, and it is not
impossible that Black may have had an addi-
tional motive in the opportunity afforded to
crafty personal and political feeling. Nor is it
improbable that the distinguished father of the
author knew what the book contained, and he
may have assisted in producing some portions
of it.