Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-30

John Minges, near Grayson, in the San Joa-
quin valley, will send to market from his ranch,
this year, 1000 tons Of wheat. This is over
1873, 900 bushels, and enough to keep mill run
ming year, making one hundred barrels of
-four per day.
1t might surprise some of our readers to be in
formed that there are manufactured in the
United States little over $500, 900 packages of
pins per annum. Each of these packages should
contain 1900 pins, giving the enormous amount
of Z ,425,O00 900 pins made annually.
The education department of Japan has Sc
lected $3.50 youths, gathered from every prov
nce, to be educated by foreign teachers, in the
government schools, now being established
throughout the country, who will themselves be
required to become teachers hereafter.
A nine year old German boy arrived at St.
Louis, last week, en- route for Belleve, having
come all the way from Germany alone. His
route and destination had been plainly marked
on paper SO that any one could direct him, his
ticket having been bought here and sent to the
old country for him 10 come over on. On the
voyage he had been alta 3ked with the smallpox
and was quarautined in New York for several
weeks.
yeritable Topsy, taken from the poor-house
by kind lady, was extremely anxious to please
She was taught the Lords prayer, and told that
she might afterward ask for whatever she want
ed One evening Mr.. N. overheard her in her
room saying, 90, Lordl make my hands fly last
in the dish-water, so Mrs. M. won't scold me.
amen"
Speaking of the hot weather, the Missouri
Democrat says: "The hotels at St. Louis are
saving coal now by broing beefsteaks on the
skylights, This Is called Rifteck al coup de
SOleiL.
Owing to the intense heat, the Missouri Demo-
crat says 1t is Obliged respectfully to file in the
archives of the office, kept for safety in the
stove, large number of original poems.
1t is said that The primal manuscript of the
declaration inlpDpndpnpn iS "a,
away, and but few years will elapse before the
naked parchment will be the only souvenier re
naming of that instrument Already nearly all
the signatures are entirely effaced and the rest
cannot last much longer unless something is
done TO restore the writing,
A former resident of Arizona who is thor
oughly familiar with the so-ealled diamond
regions, asserts that Arizona diamonds are
nothing more than peculiarly brilliant quartz
crystals OF these he has repeatedly collected
large quantities for the amusement Of the little
ones OF his acquaintance among whom he has
thus laylshed uncalculable wealth,-proyded
quartz crystals and diamonds are Synonymous.
The glad news comes that Cape Horn is TO be
practically doubled no more. The difficulties OF
sailing around the cape and the dangers of
passing through the Straits of Magellan are to
be done away with by the establishment of
service OF steam tugs in the straits for towing
sailing vessels through the narrow channel,
thereby lnsuring safety, aud shortening the pas
sage to the Pacific by at least months time.
The Straits OF Magellan will, in view Of this
enterprise, be carefully surveyed anew and its
dangerous points will be fully marked.
A Chicago correspondent says; "Woman
shone the other day in comic part, when she
attempted to stop the tracklayers of new road
from laying down the rails in one OF the streets
by which they enter the city. The track was
laid once, and the men tore it up. The work
men tried it again, in the face of bowling mob
of women and children, but managed to get
along till they were ready to 90 to spike driving
when each woman, selecting her spike, sat upon
it. This brought matters TO deadlock. The
workmen did not like to interfere with the
women, who were able.bodied, aud in earnest
So they sent for the police. The first detach-
ment was routed, 4 SECOND was more success
full. Half dozen would remove woman, and
that spike was driven down. Then another
woman was hauled off, aud another, until the
work was finished, It an impressive sight to
see 800 Irish women, disheveled, dirty, blaspLe.
nous and in earnest, strung along railroad
track, each one squattiDg on a spike, and threat
ening to make the coffin of the man who tries to
move her."