Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-16

QUEEN vIcToRIA.-.A London letter writer
speaks of the offence which Queen Victoria has
gwen to the Orthodox church people of England
by recent excursions and festivities on the Sab
bath. When she started for Baden Baden, not
long ago, her pretty yacht actually set sail
across the channel on the first day of the week,
and the Evangelicals were struck with horror
The most pious of newspapers, The Rock,
upon which rock the Evangelical wing
of the church is built, demonstrated bitterly
against her majesty thus breaking the Sabbath,
without the excuse of any call of mercy or
charity, her visit being purely one Of pleasure,
and the thing excited such general mourning
among the Orthodox that the Morning Adver-
tiSer 1.-THE established organ of liquor shops and
Evangelical religion) invented now calender to
try and prove that the queen had somehow voy-
aged on the Sabbath without invading tia the
DRY, alas, which only excited laughter when the
telegraph showed that her majesty began her
travels with the Sabbath, and did not pause
during single one of its twenty-four hours. But
what was the horror when, after all this discus.
sion this mourning, this grief, the announcement
came that her majesty had fixed on Sunday also
Cor her return journey. owe were obliged last
week." said the church organ graYely,
"to call attention to the needless disregard of
the Lords day shown by the queen in choosing
it for her journey 10 Germany. 1t was no ur-
gent summons on n matter of life and death
which called her majesty to the continent, and
the choosing of such a day cannot but be re-
garded as deliberate insult to the religious
feelings OF millions of loyal subjects. That in
suit, it appears, is 10 be repeated, and accord
ing to present arrangements the queens yacht
will arrive at Portsmouth on Sunday afternoon.
1t is TO be hoped, however, that those in author.
ity will yet see fit to convey to her majesty an
intmatiOn of the regret and pain with which
these Sabbath breaking pleasure trips are re-
garded by Christian people. 10 royalty the
country looks for an example"
1t is estimated thai the queen did intend to set
F,N.,Ia IL n1tr
travelling in order to show her sympathy with
the iree-Sunday people. The circumstances of
the church newspapers were of no avail, and
she within a few days afterwards gave them
fresh cause for complaint by giving grand din
ner party at Windsor Castle on Sabbath, dur.
ing which the boom of the cannon drowned the
music of the church bells.
CoCoANUT OIL. - Residents of temperate
zones have no realization of the immense impor
lance OF cocoanut in countries where the tree
abounds. 1t yields delicious food, q nutr-
tious drink, a rich oil, and ibres which are
manufactured into thread, Irvine, ropes, and all
kinds of strong, useful cordage.
Polling the pulp breaks open the cells. As
the oil is liberated it rises to be skinned off.
few years ago the Dutch government ordered a
census of the cocoanut trees in Java and Madei-
ra, which footed up twenty millions, being an
average of three to every native inhabtant.
Vast quantities of the oil are burned in lamps
throughout the whole Indian archipelago.
tumbler half filled with water has oil poured
into the brim. Two lighted sticks are the wcks,
which burn brilliantly. Every native glories in
a display of lamps in the house and about the
grounds, at the approach of night.
When first taken out Of the boiling pot the oil
has rich favor but soon becomes rancid. So
copious is the supply, however, it can always be
| had fresh and sweet for the table. Like olive
oil in Syria, it is butter lard, or oil, according
to circumstances, in cookery. Soap is made
with it, lamps supplied leather dressed, and cos
metics are fabricated for identifying the homely
| faces of women.