Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-30
miscellaneous Htems.

miscellaneous Items.
There are said to be eleven Protestant chapels
now open in Madrid, which are attended by four
thousand persons
A new Chinese temple was recently conse-
Grated in San Francisco, with no less than seven
tv-ave gods, two OF which are twenty feet high
and correspondlngly large.
Ground will soon be broken in Washington
for the erection of a handsome building for the
British embassy. When completed it will be an
ornament to the city.
The building which is to contain the worlds
exhibition in Vienna in 1873 is to consist of one
long gallery 50 feet in width by about 1925 in
length, with 90 cross galleries each 80 feet wide
and $50 long. This peculiar structure is to be
surmOunted by an iron dome having span of
$50 feet, or double that of st. Peters at Rome.
FIVE times as much space will be available as in
the building at Paris, and the city authorities
are taking measures to make it as convenient as
possible to visit the exhibition.
A Paris correspondent of the New York Eve
ming Post asks this question: "Why is it that
now you have so much small pox in New York,
you do not try the picnic acid of DIR. Declat
which individually cures and leaves no marks.
It's success was immense during the siege. Dr.
Pratt remarked yesterday: 1t was an invalua-
BILE discovery, and onecould not make too much
use of it.
AS an instance of the spread of liberal senti-
ments, we note that the emperor of Austria has
established in the imperial university Jewish
theological faculty, on equal footing with the
Roman Catholic and Protestant faculties. All
are accepted as students who wish to prepare
for the Office of rabbi, and Jews and Christians
are admitted to the lectures. The course Of
study continues six years, and the salary of
the professor is paid by the government.
| The Sandwich Island Friend says that the
| missionaries OF Micronesia have performed and
| published the results of more explorations in
| the Pacific ocean than have been made by the
| British pavy since the days of Captain Cooke
| and Vancouver, and by the United States navy
| since the days Of Commodore Wilkes. And yet
| the entire expense of the Micronesia mission
including the running of the missionary ship,
"the Morning Star, up to 1870, would not eX-
seed S150,000.
George B. Cummings, a Boston printer, has
invented new safety signal, which is soon to
be put on trial by the Boston and Maine rail-
road II consists of dial, marked with figures
from one to ten, clock work and a triprod.
When train passes it strikes the trip-rod, set
ting the clock in motion and causing the dial to
revolye. By this revolution red lights are shown
for ten minutes, as a signal of danger, and large
figures are also presented indicating the number
of MINUTES since the train has passed. 1t is
especially designed for curves, draws and tun-
nels, and when wound up will run for ninety
trains.
Specimens of a portulacaceous plant large
Powered and feshy, growing in British Column
ba, Oregon and California, will grow, although
they have been dried and in the herbarium for
two or three years; and, indeed, the samples are
often troublesome from sprouting whilst be-
tween the papers, One species, collected by DIR.
Iyall of the British navy, was Immersed in
| boiling water to stop its growing propensity,
before submitting to the drying process, and
| vet more than year and a half afterwards il
| showed symptoms of vitality, and subsequently
it produced its beautiful flowers in the royal
gardens at Kew. That pest of our gardens
| pursane, belongs to the same family, and is
almost equally hard to kill.
After a recent examination of female teachers
in Ohio some of the unsuccessful candidates
complained that injustice had been done them,
whereupon the examiners were so cruel as to
publish extracts from the papers written by the
rejected applicants. The following are few speci.
mems Ofthe answers" The food is first masiicated
and then passes through the phalanx = "Respir-
alton is the sweating of the BODY" ''The chest
is formed of two bones, the sternum and spinal
cord" Emphasis is placing more distress on
some words" One candidate says that 'Yir-
gna obtained its name from the Virgin Mary
another that sit was so named by Queen Vic
toria calling it Virgin state"
A singular and horrible accident was recent.
| ly investigated before the courts in Cologne,
| Prussia. 1t seems that one day last fall the
| house OF the peasant Franz Butcher was deserted
| save by the venerable Bucher who was past
| sixty and crippled with rheumatism. The Old
man had many times crawed into the huge
oven where bread was cooked TO sleep and on
the day in question heiwent into his accustomed
sleeping place, and the warmth soon alleviated
his pains and sent him to sleep. Toward eve
ming the servant entered, lit the fire, and seeing
the old man in the oven, told him to come
out, as he would get warmed up too much
But he refused, and retired to the rear of the
oven, pulling the door together. The servant
could not make him come out, but, thinking
the heat would soon scare him, allowed the
cooking to go on. Toward nine O'Clock in the
evening he was found baked almost TO a crisp
The servant, brought before the court a fort
night since, declared that she had completely
forgotten the old man, and was condemned TO
only twenty-four hours of prison.
A scientific discovery, so startling in the con-
illusions TO which it leads that Dr. Colenso
would probably have shrunk from their accep-
lance and preferred TO abide in his old beliefs,
was communicated TO the anthropological insti-
tute in London recently by Mr.. Charlesworth.
Although that gentleman with becoming mod
esty reirains from insisting on the inference to
be drawn from his discovery, desiring it first TO
be thoroughly tested, Prof Owen unhesitatinr-
ly adopts it. Mr.. Charlesworth submitted to
the anthropologists specimens Of the sharks
teeth of the genera carcharodon and otodus
taken from the debris-surlace of older plioeene
known as cred crag," found in Essex England.
| These fossil teeth are perforated across
the thickest part in such way as to
lhulcaie uaces Oh Tue acton OF some
| instrument artifcially applied. The perfora-
tons correspond exactly with those which some
Of the South Sea islanders make in the teeth of
sharks in the present day for the purpose of
making necklaces or ornaments. Their discov-
cry in the "red crag," and the finding of speci.
mems IN which the true crag matriX filled up the
hole from end to end, demonstrate the fact of
their immersion in the crag sea after the period
of perforation. The inference drawn is that the
perforation was the WORK of human agency, and
that therefore the period at which man existed
on the earth must be RELOCATED at least to the
infinitely remote pliocene age. Professor Owen,
after careful examination, says that "the
ascnption of the perforations to human mechan.
ical agency seems the most probable eXplana-
ton Of the facts" Several directors have ap-
peared, and the subject will be further inquired
into.