Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-30
nIisceIInneous Iiems


Many of the roadside railway stations in Eng
land have their names sown in dwarf flowers
on the banks outside, or worked in in flint on
the pavement.
The queen of Denmark has been sued for
| dry goods bill of S104, contracted in Copenha-
gen She thought the bill exorbitant, and re-
| fused TO pay it.
One-tenth of the entire population of the
| United States is dependent for support upon the
| production and manufacture OF iron.
A professional tea-taSier in England recently
met with an accident on a railway by which his
sense of taste was impaired, thereby iniuring
his business capacity, and a jury has awarded
him $1,000 damages.
The duke of Cleveland has lately bought an
estate in Yorkshire belonging to Mr. Milbank
who is a member of the house of commons.
The money to be paid is as follows: One mil
lion dollars down, and one hundred thousand
dollars year.
The japanese government has issued an edict
against the sale of children and young girls,
which has become very common in Japan. The
children are sold for the small sum of three dol
lars each.
Rev. B. I. Ives went over to Hartford Mills,
Onondaga county, the other day, 10 dedicate a
church. He found the society s27O0 in debt,
+ and told them if they would pay this up he
would dedicate their church. They didn't pay
and he didn't dedicate.
A correspondent of the Catholic Review writ
ing from Rome, says that the number of Eng
lish and American converts to Catholicism in
that city this year is twenty-three, "siX of them
being Young men of good family and high edu-
cation"
Elisa de Beaumont, Countess de Blancherv,
has had conferred upon her the Cross of the
Legion of Honor. This young lady fought with
musket, like common soldier, at the combat
OF Patay, near Orleans, after having seen her
husband, an officer of mobiles killed at her side
at the commencement of action.
The odd Catholics" have invited Bishop
Nottingham of Maryland, and two English
bishops, to participate in the congress at Co.
logne. This seems to indicate that the "Old
Catholics" do not consider the Protestant Epis-
copal church of this country, or the established
church of England to be in Il state of Schism.
Justin Mccarthy writes that while Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe is liked and admired in London, it
would be idle to say that her peace movement
has had any success. The only man of any real
influence over English thought who took part in
the meeting Mt St Georges hall, was Prof See
ley, author of Ecee Homo, and he threw cold
water on the scheme.
A plant called the deer-tongue which grows
in Alabama, and has an odor like vanilla is des-
tined TO be an important product of the south,
as it is being used largely as wrappers Tor fine
cigars and TO scent tobacco.
A set OF paper car wheels on one of the Pull
man cars running to Jersey City, have run over
l60,0OO miles OF track and worn out entirely one
set of steel tires, which have been renaced The
miles.
A graduate of an eastern college, a good
scholar, and Tor year popular clergyman, is
now q teamster in Des Moines, hauling at 25
cesls' load. He has always been a man of
good habits, could get a living by teaching or
preaching, but prefers his present work.
A curious StatlStlcan of Philadelphia demon
strated last summer that the sale of malt and
alcoholic beverages at the bars in that city
dropped OIL one-third when peaches were plenty,
and that the cheaper that pleasant fruit became
the smaller was the business done by the liquor
sellers.
Perhaps no group of stars is more generally
known than the Pleiades, or Seven Sisters, as
they are often called. In this cluster there is a
nebula or star clOudlet invisible to the naked
eye, but which can ordinarily be seen with the
and OF telescope. A member of the English
astronomical society, however, says that he has
searched for this nebula with his eight inch tele-
scope, but cannot now find it. He thinks it has
been distributed among these stars.
A large rattleSnake which had got a kinefish-
or by the leg was discovered in Ulster county
the other day, while a large number of other
birds of all kinds had assembled in answer to
the cry OF the captive, and were attacking the
snake from all quarters, to prevent him from
swallowing the bird, which he would probably
nave done ii it had not been released by the
man who saw it,
vi the five thousand French guns taken in the
war, twenty-five huge specimens have been set
apart for monster bell to be cast for the carhe-
dral at Cologne. The bell is to weigh five hun
dred tons, and will be seventy feet high, with
diameter of thirteen feet at its base. With
the exception Of the Ivan Velki at Moscow
which is gong rather than bell, having no
capper, and being struck with hammer-t
Will be the largest on the continent and will
even exceed Big Ben.