Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-04
Miscellaneous E,ems.

According to the United States gauge the
waters oil Lake Michigan are now steadily rising
and have now reached the level of MAY, 1861.
Last week 5000 worth of silver was carried
| from Silver Islet to Detroit. The Silver Islet
| company are arranging 10 enlarge their mining
| operations. The shaft is now sunk 1870 feet and
| a very rich belt of ore has been exposed 30 feet
wide and 81 long.
An English rector who firmly believed that
| children could not be saved unless baptised
| positively refused TO baptise child that was
brought TO him unless he was given two shil
| lines. Whose salvation the piOus man was work
inc for was thus made quite apparent.
Christian sect OF unknown origin and an.
tiquity has been discovered by French mission
aries IN India, which PROCESSES TO believe in the
New Testament as divine revelation, observes
the Sabbath and prayer, and does not recognize
the obligations of caste. This sect, which is
constantly increasing, now extends over several
territories is entirely separate from other Indian
tribes, and is believed by the missionaries to bC
a truly Christian band.
The Scientific American narrates an instance
of ignorant stupidity that would hardly have
been deemed possible even of the New York
ring MIR. Hilton, late vice president of the
Central park commissioners, ordered the de-
struction of work on the restoration of skeletons
OF American extinct animals on which Mr.. b.
Waterh0use Hawkins had been engaged for
twenty-one months, at a cost to the city of Sl2,-
600
From penny-alning some literary men have
reached ali-penny-a-wording. Mr.. George A.
Sala, according to the Printers Register, made a
curious contract for writing the thanksgiving
number of the Graphic. He was TO put to
gcther 81 600 words, and to be paid for his task
at lhe rate of hall-penny word Ii is asserted
that upwards OF quarter OF ambition of copies
of il were required. One halfpennv per word,
however, was not such very great pay as may be
supposed. MIR. Sala had heavy task TO per-
form; he had something like volume TO write,
in great hurry, and he got less than eighty
pounds for il.
Rome, Palermo, and many towns in the south
OF Italy were visited on the 10th and 18th of
March last by shower of bloodcOlored rain,
predicted from atmospheric conditions by MN.
larry and Denza of PARIS. Its red color was
caused by particles of sand, which were found
by analysis to be exactly similar to the sands of
African deserts A yellow shower fell few
days ago at Pau, in the lower Pyrenees. The
material in this case proved to be sulphur
quantities of which were gathered off the roads
where it had fallen. 1t is an interesting queS-
ton whether or no the eruptiOns of Mount We
suvius could have been its source.
Germany is Justly alarmed at the rapid de-
population OF some of her provinces by emigra.
ton to the United States. Petitions have been
received in parliament from some of the de-
serted districts praying for the summary sup
preston of the emigration agencies, which are
regarded as the source of the movement. In
the course of the debate which ensued it was
remarked that the emigrants are not mainly of
the poorer classes, but consist largely of small
proprietors grown hopeless of prosperity in
their own land, and the conclusion was drawn
that there was something rotten in the state of
1.-THE new and SO splendid German empire"
One district containing $4,000 people has lost
1900 this spring, by emigration, and this deple-
ton is still going on at the rate of $50 or 200
week. The very measures taken to suppress
this movement will doubtless still further ad-
vertise and promote it. America will welcome
these future citizens, for Germany'S loss will be
her gain.