Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-05
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The dean Of Lincoln be1ueathed sixty thou
sand pounds worth of property on a viii writ
ten on half a sheet of paper.
A troupe Of Ethiopian seTenaders, after the
American plan, is on tour through Norway,
and drawing large audiences.
A poor young man remarks that the only adj
vice he gets from capitalists is to Give within
his income" whereas the difficulty he expert
ences is to live without an income.
A Grand Rapids manufacturing firm obtains
its motive power from water-wheel a quarter
of mile distant, by means of half mile of
cable wire stretched on puleys across the Grand
river.
A farmer in Morgan county, Illinois, has dis
covered on his land a vein of copper ore only
ten feet below the surface and three feet in
depth, which assays ninety per cent of pure
copper. So, at least, the local paper says.
Among the oldest relics at the Berks county
fair, last week, were lady's belt 300 years old,
which served for four weddings; a dark glass
bottle 260 years old; brass tea kettle 200 years
old, and German copy of the New Testament
345 years old.
In Carroll county. ILL.,, tit is positively affirmed
that the waters of the region have subsidized
materially within few years. Wells that used
to be full Of water at twenty feet have had to
be dug down nearly forty feet. Springs that
used to run have stopped; lakes that always
had been are not, and even streams are greatly
diminished.
At the reunion of the family Of ]. A g. lee
of Owingsville KY, $4,000 were placed under
the plate OF, each of his children present. A cor
respondent says: GAS Mrs. Nesbtt gazed, with
grateful bewilderment, upon her thousands, she
Observed If it is more blessed ito give than to
receive, pa, how do you feelP"
An Iowa judge has decided that the Sunday
liquor law binds only those whose religion ac-
knowledges the sanctty Of that day. As a
result of the decision, a large number of saloon
keepers have become converts.tO Judaism and
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to the faiths of their fathers. In this way they
manage to keep the saloons open seven days in
a week.
physician examining a student as to his
progress asked him "ShOuld man fall into
his well forty feet deep, and strike his head
against one OF his tools with which he had been
DIGGING, what would be your course if called in
as surgeoup The student replied: 81 should
advise them to let the man be and fill up the
well.'
Sunday night three boys were arrested in
Chambers street, New York, committing bur-
glary; their ages were eleven, nine and six
years respectively When asked why they had
committed the crime, they replied that they
wanted to play policy and make stamps, and
then have drunk.
1t is rather hard 10 ask man condemned to
be executed to build his own gallOws, because
he happens to be carpenter. In Arkansas
recently, when the sheriff was going to have a
little hanging, he could find no one to put up
the stage for the performance, and as the con-
demned man was builder by trade, requested
him to do the job. He said he would be hanged
if he did, and nobody can blame him.
The action of the sea in forming sand bars at
the river mouths along the coast of Natal, South
Africa effectually dams lip many of the smaller
rivers of that colony during the dry season,
usually pushing back the waters inland SO as
to form wide lagoon, which overfows the
barrier at one Of its eGtremities alter the rainy
cpfg in, =. 1-,s,,
in the Nehgherry hills, southern India, to utilize
like action on the part OF the mountain
streams, and thereby raise dams for artificial
lakes in which to store water for irrigation.
Twenty-Five of the barefoOted friarS from
Guatemala have arrived in New York, and are
at present cafed for by the convent of Capucbin
on 31St street. They pteseut a variety Of ma.
tlonalites, some speaking French, Spanish, and
some only dialect of the Indian language OF
South America. They communicate in Latin
with the brotherhood in this country. The SUI
perior, Rev. Padre Gabriel, is nearly eighty
years old. All are clad IN the coarse, brown
robe OF the ORDER girt with a rope and furnished
with cowl. Their future destinies are yet un-
| decided.
The Pail Mall Gazette is Of opinion that if
market gardeners could only induce the banana
TO grow in England, Englishmen might afford
to smile at the rayages of the potato disease and
| even assuming tina. they all became vegetarans.
allow the deer forests still to exist for time, as
| the land at present at their disposal would
amply suffice to meet all requirements. In Mex
! leo, says Mr., Buckle, in bis 'Hstory of CiYza-
ton" potatoes were unknown till the arrival of
the Spanards; but both MeXcans and Peru
ylans lived 10 a great extent on the produce of
| the banana, "a vegetable whose reproductive
powers are so extraordinary that nothing but
the precise and unimpeachable testimony of
which we are possessed could make them at all
credible This remarkable plant, says the Ga
zette, is in America intimately connected with
the physical laws Of climate, since it is an article
Of primary Importance for the subsistence of
man whenever the temperature passes a certain
point. Of its nutritiye powers, it is enough TO
say that an acre sown with it will support more
than fifty persons, whereas the same amount OF
land sown with wheat in Europe will only sup
port two persons As to the eXub france of its
growth, it is calculated that, other circum-
tanceS remaining the same its produce is forty
four times greater than that Of the potato and a
hundred and thirty-three times greater than
that of wheat. Unfortunately, bananas prefer
hot climates to cool ones, and they are eXpen-
siVe luXuries even in America.