Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-25
miscellaneous Hrenns

A log was recently cut in Greenhush, Mich,
which contained nearly 10000 feet, board meas
ure, Of lumber. 1t was 90 feet long and 46
iuches in diameter in the centre.
A brilliant Fon du Lac boy, seeing dog with
muZzle on for the first time, exclaimed "Mam-
ma, mamma, bet Ave cents the dogs are going
to wear hoop skirts; there goes Il dog with one
on his nose now.i
The cultivation of the poppy in France is
steadily increasing, and 1t now occupies about
$4,000 acres, OF the value of 1850 900 francs,
yielding opium to the value of 100000 francs
per year. Different samples of opium raised in
various parts OF Europe yielded from to 10 per
cent of morphine
Webb OF Wabashaw Mimi, having failed and
being threatened with deadly revenge by his
angry creditors, coollY advises them in card
You had better not, for the more help can
give the assgnees, the bigger will be your divi-
dends. just at present, perhaps, ought not to
object as it would no doubt relieve me of what
now looks likely to be lifelong burden"
The disposition OF the democracy to look upon
their defeat in New Hampshire as "a blessing in
disguise reminds a contemporary Of the re-
mark of a North Carolina tar heel, suggested by
the similar claim of the "JOhnny rebs" over the
loss of Savannah, Charleston, Wilmington, etc,
VIZ: After all these blessings in disguise, for
my part, should like to have one without dis
guise, just for change"
vacancy having occurred in certain church
by reason Of the resignation of the organist the
trustees advertised for a candidate for Organist
music teacher, etc. Among the numerous re-
plies TO the advertisement was the following pc
cullar announcement: "Gentlemen: | notice
your advertisement for organist and music
| teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having been
Doth for several years, offer you my services
lady, writing to her father, described the
| loss OF tavorlte COW as follows: yesterday
poor Dolly strayed from the pasture, and un.
| fortunately selecting the railroad track for the
route of her luckless liberty, was caught by the
| late afternoon train from the north and left in
nearly equal portions either side of the track "
10 which the father promptly and succinctly
| replied: "Apropos of your COW, sec Genesis,
| 1517." Consulting Genesis according to this
direction, she read: "And it came to pass, that,
| when the sun went down, and it was dark, be-
| hold a smoking furnace aud burning lamp
that passed between those pieces. "-Ha7per's
Drd1CeF
Bovy ST. Vincent says the time is cominq
when the Mediterranean will be nothing more
than chain of lakes and then a mighty river.
The Sea of Azof is already being converted into
stream, Its shores constantly approaching
nearer together. Tracts of water which extend
from the mouth Of the Don to the Straits of the
Dardanelles may now he compared 10 Lakes Su.
perior, Huron and Michigan. When the great
island OF Atlantis went down, as Plato relates,
covered with cities, ii must have changed the
sea boundaries exceedingly. Rivers are forever
In the process OF changing their channels and
Swallowing by the debris they spread along their
bottoms.
There is curious bit of history connected
with the assassination of Earl MAYO, governor
general OF India. His murderer, Shere Alice, a
mountalneer from the Himalayas, was good
soldier in the British cavalry lie had family
ieud, and once or twice year he would get a
THROUGH golback to his home, kill one of his
loes, and return TO duty. A few months ago,
while on man-hunting trip, he met his intend,
ca victim on British soil and killed him there.
ms was crime. He was arrested tried, and
sentenced to lifelong Imprisonment. Unable
to comprehend the distinction made by a few
miles Of space, he regarded himself as The VIC
tim OF England's injustice, and revenged him
| sell by killing the man who was, to him, the
embodiment Of England's power.