Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-29

The Saturday Review has merciess article
| on James Gordon Bennett, whose career it de-
clares sis conspicuous example of prosperous
| infamy."
1t is said forty-five per cent of the gross
| products of California are from agrlcul-
tural sources, while but sixteen per cent is from
| gold or other metals.
A daily paper started in Keokuk, Ia, to look
| after the interests of the firm of Greeley and
Brown, has just come to an untimely end, after
| a troubled existence of fourteen days.
Alderman Mech of England, in Glow to
Farm Probably" says: at is precisely because
| British farmers have their cuStOmers-the Brit
ish manufacturers-almost at their doors, and
| that other corn producing countries have not
| any manufacturers, that British agriculture is
| rich and thriving"
| VIM. Mattingby of Florssant, NO., was sup
posed to have died in the early part of April of
cerebro-spinal meningitis. The flesh of the
| corpse was found TO be soft, however ana burial
| was deferred, and, though consciousness never
| returned, the man lived in comatoSe state
| supported by artificial stimulants, for sixty-two
| days.
The states paving the highest amount of tax
| alton annually are New York, S4S, 550, 900:
Massachusetts, 1874 1892 900; Pennsylvania, 1874,
900; Ohio, 500, 526 900; Illinois, S21 ,S21 OOO
These are all which pay over $20,000,00O of tax
year.
The Journal DIES Debats says it has Just been
discovered that n solution of Suphate of iron
sprinkled upon fruits and plants has a wonder
fu effect. Beans gained sixty per cent. in size
ana in quality, and pear trees were wonderfully
benefited by the new fertilizers.
No cheese has ever been made in the parish of
Stilton, HuntingdOnshire, The LelceStershire-
made cheese, which is called Stilton cheese, and
which was sold but not made in Stilton during
the old coaching days, was perhaps first made
at Little Daily or elsewhere, in or before the
year 1920
A fve-vparold CON of Nm n Coeao c.o4,;,,o,
too near a leopard's cage in the menagerie at
Central park, Sunday evening, the beast rem
dered irritable by the intense heat, buried his
claws in the boys face. The child'S shriekS
made the crowd think that some of the beasts
had broken loose, and wild panic followed
The boy was rescued, with his face badly LAGER
ated.
A German adulteration has been recently re-
ported which deserves TO rank with the inven-
ton OF wooden nutmegs. Some green Rio coffee
when prepared in the usual way, yielded de-
coctlon OF such peculiar taste that close exam
nation was instituted, which showed that more
than one-iourth Ofthe beans, though resembling
the coffee bean externally, Swelled up when
mostened. They were formed of bread, pressed
into form and colOred.
A Chicago Journal says: "The efficiency of
our police department is such that man NAV
safely go through any of the streets west of
Halsted, alter ten in the evening, with no 9th er
protection than double-barrelled shot gun.
while the head Of the family who has iron
shutters, bull dog, a revolver and a private
Waterman can wrap the drapery of his couch
about him with feeling Of something like Sc
curitY,"
The manufacture Of iron in India is very an
Gent, as has been shown recently in the case of
pillar Of wrought iron at the gate of an old
mosque near Delhi 1t is as large as the screw
shaft of first class steamer, and has been carved
with the chisel in the solid metal The entire
length is about sixty feet, with diameter near
the surface of the ground of sixteen inches, and
aweight of more than seven teen tons. Near its
middle is an inscription of six lines in Sanscrit
prose, while Its age is assigned to the third or
fourth century of the Christian era
Jew enterprsing literary Japanese gentle
| men got up an exhibition at Yeddo. which is
very interesting to visit, 1t is held in a hand
some temple long sacred to Confucius, where
were specimens exhibiting the fauna and fora
OF the empire, with illustrations af It's ichtyolo-
gy, herpetolo9y, entomology, ornthology, etc.
hundred birds, well stuffed and mounted,
REPRESENTED the latter department of natural
history. Articles of laquer and bronze, many
OF them very old and costly, ancient armor and
weapons, paintings, coins, manuscripts and
other curoslties in great number, attracted
thousands OF visitors at an entrance fee of two
cents each.