Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-19

| night Of the fire boy was put in charge of ii,
| and being unable TO carry it away very thought
| fully dragged it into the basement and under
the sidewalk. The falling ruins fell upon and
| preserved il from burning. A gun presented by
Joe Jefferson to one of the proprietors has also
been found in quite good condition.
The mails having for week failed 10 come to
time in an Arkansas town, the local paper says
it has been forced to draw heavily on the alma
macs for copy and if communication with the
outer world should be longer cut off, 1--WE will
be obliged next week to make extracts from the
Bible, thus supplying some of our readers, at
least, with matter entirely new to them"
There is said to have been a steady increase
through the centuries in the number of earth
Quakes According to best authorities there were
in the fourth century, 81; in the fifth, %; in the
sixth, 81; in the seventh, 10; in the eighth, II
in the ninth, sc; in the tenth, II; in the eev-
enth, 81; in the twelfth 6S; in the thirteenth,
50; in the fourteenth, So; in the fifteenth, Al in
the sixteenth, 40; in the seventeenth, $50; in
the eighteenth, $50; in the nineteenth, 925.
The regular rise and fall of the waters of Lake
Superior, at Duluth, have for some time attract
ed the attention Of the curious, who attribute
the phenomenon to tidal disturbances. The
matter has finally been brought to the attention
of the United States bureau of engineers, and
the officers Of the war department will this year
institute series Of observations at several hum
dred stations on the coast in mid-lake Instru-
mentS have been provided by which the least
vibration or tremuous motion of the waters may
be registered. This investigation will probably
settle q question which has been much dis
cussed, viz: Do the great lakes have tidal
movements?
Not long since a sleepy member of the lower
branch of the Illinois legislature requested
fellow member to wake him when certain bill
involving the interests of lumbermen came up.
This agreed upon, the sleepy member was soon
in the happy land of dreams. 1t so happened
that certain bill upon theft and perjury came
"a Gp ,uIaa tl,a lat S,lt
under way, the sleepy member was aroused.
lie, rubbing his eyes, arose and addressed the
speaker: Mr.. Speaker, wish to say few words
upon this bill, for the fact is, the most of the
people up our way make their living by this
trade" II is needless to add that his remarks
were appreciated and highly applauded
ApropoS Of the late presentation of the free
dom of the city of Stendal TO Prince Bismarck,
the Spencer Gazette publishes a curious docu-
ment, dated 1888, in which the diocesan bishop
of Haberstadt eXcommunicates the ancestor of
the new honorary citizen, ROdolf Won Bismarke
and threatens the whole town council and all in
authority in Stendal likewise with instant eX-
communication, should they fail to deprive Ro-
dolf of his civic dignity and Danish him from
the town. As consequence Rodolf Won Bjsmarke
was compelled to quit the town in which since
that day his family have been formally a baniShed
race. Prince Bismarck himself also refers to this
incident in his family history. Visiting the sins
OF former generation upon the present is
gentle rebuke which takes the form of a com
pliment. The chancellor assures the town
council of Stendal that he considers his elevation
the greater honor for the slight put upon his
ancestor. The most remarkable feature in the
case is that the act condemned as an offence 534
years ago is in principle identical with the one
now eNtOlled as a meritorOuS deed, viz: The
endeavor to emancipate the school from the
church, i'll the fourteenth century, by founding
a secularist school; in the nineteenth by intro
ducing a schools inspection bill.