Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-09

Only one copy of tine English Cease" submit
| ted to the Geneva board of arbitration has yet
| arrived in this country, and that is in pos
session of Caleb Cushing, who is carefully study
| ing it.
The officers of the American army quartered
at the city of Mexico, recently stopped the pay
of tine private soldiers one day, and with the
money bought a coach and made birthday
present of it to Melia, secretary Of war
Garibaldi has been approached by several
French and English publishers for the manu-
script of his biography, recently completed, but
he refuses TO have it published until after his
death.
Voltare having paid some high compliments
to the celebrated Halter was told that Halter was
not in the habit of speaking so favoraby of him.
"Ahl" said Voltaire, with an air of philosophic
indulgence, 81 dare say we are both Of US very
much mistaken"
Fiji Island planter and four Europeans,
while recently conveying forty kidnapped Salo-
mon Islanders from Levuka TO n plantation,
were attacked by the prisoners and chopped to
pieces with hatchets Served them right too.
A Berlin paper, with a weakness for figures
publishes some curious comparisons of the CON
dition of Europe at the present time with its
condition hundred years ago. Europe now
has 300 100000 OF inhabitants; then it had about
60,00O,O00. The six principal powers of Europe
now en@ross four flths of its population, as fol
lows: Russia, II, 100000; Germany, 10000, 900;
France, 30 100000; Austro-iIungary, SO, 600, 900;
Great Britain, 32 ZOO, 900; Italy, 26, 500 600 A
hundred years ago, the five great powers had
but bali the total population. This was before
the partition Of Poland.
A Swedish scientific expedition has recently
returned from the coast OF Greenland, bringing
more than twenty masses of meteOrc iron,
which were found on the surface of the ground.
The largest weighs more than $4,000 Swedish
pounds, or about twenty.one tons English, with
a maximum sectional area of about forty two
square feet II has been placed in the hall OF
the royal academy at Stockholm The removal
to a more southern climate causes them TO dis
integraie, and II is proposed to preserve them
in tank of alcohol.
When natural milk became scarce in Paris,
Dubrunfaut proposed an artificial milk made by
dissolving IL ounces of sugar in quart of
water, adding an ounce Of dry albumin (from
white of egg) and fifteen to thirty grains of soda
crystals, and then emulsionizing therein from
~ to 2 ounces OF olive oil. As the war pro-
crossed, gelatin was substituted for the albumin,
and then slaughter-house fats, purified by melt
ing at $50 degrees-for the olive OIL One firm
made in this latter way, 100000 gallons Of milk
daily for Paris consumption.
The great accuracy with which differences of
longitude can be ascertained by the magnetic
telegraph is illustrated by some Of Mr. George
w. Deans determinations for the United States
coast survey. Observers were stationed at Cam
bridge, Omaha, Salt Lake city and San Francisco,
and additional repeaters at Buffalo, Chicago,
Cheyenne and Virginia City. The longtudes were
estimated at four different combinations OF cir.
cults, the teegraphc distance of San Fran
cisco from Cambridge being three thousand five
hundred and eighty miles. The greatest differ.
ence between any two determinations was twenty
eight thousands Of a second, equivalent to about
| thirty feet, the mean error being less than one
millionth ofthe distance
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