Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-12

The actuary of a CLERGY Life Assurance
| Company in London, states in his last report
that the mortality Of the clergy may safely be
put at twenty per cent, less than that Of the
rest OF the community.
One Dr., N, L. Gushing, in Br0okSvle Ca,
has giYen public notice that he is an inebratc,
and II the saloon keepers sell him any liauor
they will he prosecuted under the law for such
cases made and provided,
An international regattatook place at Havana
last week, There were races for steam launches,
row and sall-bOals in which Germans, AmeIi-
cans, Spaniards and Russians from the mep-of-
war in the harbOr, took part The prize for
steam laupches was won by the Germans the
American launch taking the second prize, and the
Spanish the third. Russia won the prize for sail
boats.
Rev. Henry A. Carroll, of the Washington
conference, recently said: "Ihe order of the day
is a cOlOred bishop. We hope that the general
conference will ordaln for US man to that
office, If one can be found competent. But we
do not want a cOlOred bishop simply because he
is colored. We donot want the man who seeks
the biShopic, but we want the hishoplic to seek
the man."
The Mississippi river is 26t6 miles in length,
and is 1889 feet above the level of the gulf at lbs
utmost source. At st Paul, it is $40 feet above
the gull; at the head of the Rock Island RAPIDS
sos feet; at Davenport al feet; at ST. Louis,
4OS ieet at Cairo, 322 feet; at Memphis 221 feet;
at NatcheZ, 66 feet; at New Orleans, 10 feet;
and at the head Of the pass, feet inches.
A story Illustrative of the way in which reyo-
lutiOns are got up in South America, is told by
the AngO-Brazilian Times; "Ihree or four
years ago an Argentine second lieutenant made
a pronunCiamento in the city of Corrientes
but was beaten and captured. At his court
martial be was asked, What post had you in
the affarP q was commander in.cbief of all
the infantry of the revolution How many
men had that infantry? Seven men, replied
their commandments"
A methodist church has been built on the line
separating Ohio and Pennsylvania, so that the
preacher stands in Chic and discourSes to
congregation in Pennsylvania and which is
said to be very convenient on nuptual occasions,
especially for parties who elOpe, as no license is
required in the Keystone state Parties seeking
matrimony are very kindly and CONSIDERABLY
catechised about these delicate points, and al
lowed to select in winch end of the church they
will have the ceremony pronounced
The japanese government has written TO orr
government that certain quantity of rice held
in store by the finance department. from time TO
time, will be publicly sold, on written proposals
both 10 the japanese and foreigners. al The omen
ports OF Japan, for expectation, If there is sur
Plus OF rice in tue country, although the general
expectation OF the same is still prohibited Ii is
added that the Japanese government will itself
occasionally export rice when It's thought TO be
expedient,
u may interest musicians, as well as scientific
gentlemen, TO learn that Professor Schmidt. a
German, has fully shown not only that pia1ists
are men in whom certain mental qualities are
enormously deyeloned, but that their physical
force is something quite astounding. The PRO
lessor heard Herr Rubenstcin play at a concert,
ana TOOK II INTO his head-of course after he had
gone hOme-to count the notes which Herr m.
bernstein played by heart. The nhysiolopist
Haering has asserted that the profession of the
pianist taxes the memory more severely than
almost any other calling, and Prof Schmldt's
counting 81 the notes gives countenipce to the
assertion; for by it the fact was shown that in
mat Que performance Herr Rubcnsein had used
o2,99O notes, The professor then used certain
Austrian coins as dynamomctcr 70 test The
pressure necessary to strike a hey on Herr Bu-
Denstens piano, ana found it to he equal to two
ounces and bali, aud 80 it was shown ibnt the
pianist in playing the 50 900 notes had used a
force amounting to g4l Cwt.