Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-15

never encountered negative before in its life
and could not bear it, says the Boston Tran
script.
Whymper the distinguished Alpine climber,
has Just had two canoes built for use in Green
land explorations. One of them is driven by Il
screw propeller at an average speed of three
knots, and n maximum speed of five aud a
quarter, weighing only eighty pounds, includ-
ing her machinery, and affords good sleeping
accommodations, though only fourteen feet
long.
As Conductor Weatherley's train, for Troy,
was nearing Eage bridge, Saturday afternoon,
the engineer Henry Connors, discovered, only Il
few rods ahead, a little boy, about year and a
half old, standing with one foot on the rail gaz-
ing with childish abstraction at the engine.
Quick as thought he gave the signal for brakes,
reversed the lever, and, at the imminent peril of
his own life, went out on the extreme point of
the pilot and clinging with one hand TO the
draw bar, with the other gave the little innocent
a shove which landed him at a safe distance.
Several of the French papers State~t that Nj.
Theirs was in conversation few DAYS back
with some deputies, when reference was made
to the number eff embarraSsments in the present
political situation of France. "There are three
dangers" said the president, with smile, "and
three Only-radcalism, BOnapartsm, and my
death. The first ! do not think very menac-
ing; the second requires to he watched over
carefully, and as for the third there is no doubt
of it,"
The authorities of the Madras (Iindostan)
presidency are considering the cxpediency of
making il unlawful for married Christian to
change his religion. This peculiar distinction
between bachelors and Benedicts is proposed on
account of recent event in the city Of Madras.
An English member of the bar there pretended
TO become a convert to Mohammedanism and
at once gave his Christian wife the company of
a harem of duSky beauties. She naturally com
planned, but the law could do nothing The
plea of change of religion was a bar TO all GRIM
inal prosecution
Mr. Frederick Krupp of Essen, in Rhensh
Prussia, the greatest manufacturer of steel per-
haps in the world, has published a characteristic
letter to his employees. He warns them against
strikes; says he will pay wages in proportion to
his profits; that he pensions deserving workmen
after series OF years; that he will always in
the future, as in the past, raise wages when he
thinks he can afford to do so; but that he re-
fuses to be dictated to. The krupp works en-
ployed in 1871, $50 workmen, and turned out
$4,000 metrical tons of cast steel in the form of
aXles tires, shafts, rolls, boiler plates, springs,
artillery and projectiles, and employs 255 en-
gines, representing an aggregate of 1851 horse
power.
The national library in Paris has just recov-
cred, in singular manner, n legacy left
by NJ Prosper Merimee. That member of the
academy had disposed by will of his remarkable
collection of antique rings and precious stones
in favor of that institution. But as during the
commune, his apartment was destroyed by fire,
nothing more was thought of the legacy. A
few days back NJ. du Sommerard executor
TO the deceased gentleman, found at his own
residence a chest which appeared to have been
forgotten since the late events. 1t was NJ. Mer-
imee's plate, which he was accustomed to send
to his friend to be taken care of whenever he
left Paris. The box was opened, and beneath
the spoons, forks, dishes, &C., was discovered
the precious collection which was thought to
be irretrevably lost. NJ. Tascherau has re-
ceived the jewels, which now belong to the ma
tional library.