Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-03

A shepherd in California lately killed large
mountain lion" by thrusting his staff down
| the beasts throat.
There is still one slave owned in Washing
| ton. That is the property of the banker COrco-
ran, and is popularity known as Powers Greek
slave.
A Charleston man committed suicide the
| other day, because he had eaten so many reed
birds that he was unable to deyour the specially
| hne one that he had reserved for the last.
"Wile," said man, looking for his bootiack
| 81 have places where ] keep my things, and you
| ought to know it," Eyes, 1 ought to know
where you keep your late hours; but l don't"
| The general Superintendent of the Michigan
Central railroad has forbid the sale of whiskey,
ale, beer or other intoxicating liquors along the
line of that road in any of the eating houses at
| tached to the stations This action was induced
| by the frequency with which accidents and
mishaps occurred through the use of intoxicat-
| ing liquors.
Charles Reade has written a enthusiastically
| egotistical and ill-tempered letter to Chicago
| gentleman who had addressed him some in
quiries about the plot of "Ferrble Temptation"
| in which he modeStly aludes to that work as
the "only novel of the year that has interested
people," and cOmplacently concludes that the
marrow experiences" of his critics are no meas
| ure of the authors "mind and researches"
Some letters of Voltaire, IA in number, of
which but one has been published addressed to
| Count Alexander Woronzof, have been discov-
| cred at Odessa.
Wisconsin paper tells a story of girl six
| teen years old, who lost her reason while in
| apparently good health, some time since, and
| with it her knowledge Of the English language,
| but acquired complete command of the German
language, so as to speak it fiuentlv, though she
had never studied it, and, so far as known, never
| lived where it was spoken
Stanley leaves England for this country on
| the 18th, and soon after his arrival commences
| an engagement which he has lust closed with a
New York IN Inlivpr Loot Co,.
$4,000, or $500 per night, at which rate Living
stones discOverer will tind his African tour
| quite profitable little journey.
| A letter from an American in Edinburgh says:
saturday night in Cork seems TO be given over
| to one huge drunk-Gasgow the same. don't
| know how it may be here tonight, but if the
Presbyterian ministers who are attending the
| grand Presbyterian council here are a fair sam
| pie, Edinburgh must be the 'drunkenest' place
| in the world. saw number of them at dinner
| in a hotel take enough sherry, champagne,
| claret, brandy and hot Scotch to send a great
many Yankees under the table,"
very hard hearted clapper in an old church
| tower protested the intensest distress because
| its bell was hopelessy cracked. Many people
| thought it a pitiable position, and wished the
| sad hearted clapper better bell. But just then
| the ghost OF DioSeneS, the sage, hoated in
| through the window, and whiSted most angrily
| Master Clapper, cease your noise, and remem-
Der, in the first place, you cracked the bell; and,
/ sctOuulyJ uOUOuJ NOulu nave Known IL laQ YOU
| not told them" | have observed often thai
| those who bemoan divisions in a church are
they who make them; and also observed 81 me-
| times that they who make them are most ready
| to publish the fact. / have observed another
| fact, viz: that all clappers are not of as good
metal as the bells they crack .-BGptist Weekly
The smallest sized specimens of sewing sill
manufactured measure about 22O0 yards, or
| over one and one-iourth miles, to the ounce.
Even in the construction of this variety, so fine
| and goSsamerlike that it is used only in the
most delicate branches Of needle work, some
| times from two hundred to four hundred fbers
of the material, as originally spun by the silk
| worm, are required in order to assume the requi-
| site size. The Vernilorm artists which produce
| this beautiful material do not spin threads
| of uniform size. Perhaps no two spin exact
| ly alike; therefore, there may be as many
| different sizes of the worm tiber produced
| and as wide a contrast in texture and quality,
as appear in the finished article of sewing silk
after it has been subjected to the manipulations
| of human skill and ingenuity. The smallest
| fiber of silk, as wrought by the worm into the
exquisite structure of its COCOON is so infinitely
minute that every ounce Of the manufactured
| thread is supposed to contain nearly 1000 miles
| of this floss like strand and the puny animal
| sometimes Celebrates fiber of such marvellous
tenuity that less than four pounds of the thread
| ayoirdupois, would reach round the world.