Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-31
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A Scotch peasant girl who. on arriving for the
nrst time al the turnpike gate nearest Glasgow
knocked and inquired, as this Glasgow p and
being answered in the affirmative, asked, SIS
Peggy in ,?
The French geographical society Is now very
much elated over a grand exploring expedi tiOn
recently made into the wilds Of Madagascar, and
which has been productive Of some very as
founding discoveries.
There is still preserved in Edinburgh a mon
ster wrought-irOn gun Of the olden times, which
was built upon the spot where it was to be
used, and was sort Of iron cooperage, made
with slaves and hoops. Nevertheless, it would
"shoot"
A return to parliament just made shows that
within the last year among the acquisitions to
the British museum was an almost complete
collection of the journals, broadsides, procla-
| nations and caricatures, published during
the recent war between France and Germany.
and also during the aScendency of the commune
in Paris.
Earl Granville has directed selection of
works-one hundred and forty-eight volumes
published by the foreign offices, to be presented
10 the Chicago new library on behalf of the
government; and the Bath and WeStof England
society sends complete set of its transactions
for the last twenty years.
Fat army contracts are not peculiar TO this
country. In recent report to the French ma
tional assembly, on the contracts for arms and
ammunition, il was stated that certain green
grocer of Paris, whose operations had never be-
lore brought him in contact with the minister
OF war, had realized in Il single year G100000 as
commissions ON purchases amounting to EiO0-
600.
1t will be remembered that at Christmas,
1870, the eldest son of Mr.. Walter, proprietor OF
the London Times, was drowned in the attempt
to save the lives of others, the day after his re-
turn home from extensive travel in this coun-
try. II is now announced that DR.. Dasent, long
one OF the editors of the same Journal has lost
his son, young man of the highest promise
in similar manner He was drowned while
bathing at Oxford, the day after he attained his
twenty-thrd year.
| There is religious society of "Penitentes"
| in New Mexico who held an annual celebration
| at Iecolete on the third inst, in the course OF
| which one of the members died from the loss of
blood caused by the whipping to which he had
subjected himself The Las Vegas mail SAYS
| that the members of this society annually vie
with each other in self-imposed penances, the
severity of which is shocking to civilization, and
ought to be suppressed by law.
A prominent British physician, DR.. Mitchell
| OF the Edinburgh college, says that the theory
of idiocy, resulting from consanguineous mar
| rlages, Is not supported by facts, as over sixty
per cent of the cases of idiocy in the British
| isles are acquired, not congenital Prolific causes
| of idocy are scarlet fever, whoOping cough and
measles, diseases to which thirty per cent of all
| the idiots and imbeciles in Great Britain are
due.
The sea serpent has again been seen. He has
moved to Africa. Capt. McFaggart of the En-
glish ship Kent saw the creature on the 10th dav
| of September off the coast of Western Africa.
| The monster is preceded by a procession of re-
ceding fish, so that for twelve hours before see
| ing the serpent the water about the Kent was
| filled with small fry like sharks and porpoises
| in great numbers The creature itself was
about two hundred feet long and carried his
| head eight feet out of water. lie moved away
rapidly.
Mr.. Beecher, in his lectures on preaching,
gives good hit on pulpit halloang. At the
closing OF his lecture an inquirer asked "Sup.
pose man tries TO work himself up to feeling
OF enthusiasm by action and increased EN-.
phass, can he be successfulP Mr. Beecher an
swered: an regard to that, will mention n
| circumstance that occurred to my father
| recolect his coming home in Boston one SIM
day, when was quite small boy, saying how
glad he was to get ZONE, away from the church
| and he added 1t seems to me never made n
worse sermon than | did this morning. WHY,
father, said !, 4 never heard you preach so loud
in all my life That is the way said he, Il
always holloa when / haven't anything 10
say"
The Moniteur, in 1915, then the organ OF
Louis XVIII, recorded the progress of the FIRST
Napoleon from Elba to Paris: "The anthro
pophagist has escaped" "The Corsican OGRE
has landed" "The tiger is coming,H @The
monster has slept at Grenoble" "The tyrant
has arrived at Lyons" "The usurper has been
seen in the environs of Paris" "Bonaparte adj.
vances toward, but will never enter the capital y
Napoleon will be under our ramparts to-mor-
row." ellis imperial majesty entered the Tuil.
cries on the 21st Of March, in the midst of his
faithful subjects"