Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-14


Two girls, each about eighteen years of age
were recently arrested in Chicago for highway
robbery.
A lecturer recently made a point in Illus
trating the power of heat by saying the iron
track of the Central railroad is one thousand
feet shorter to-day than on the 4th of July last.
Twenty-Five of the offended mothers and
daughters Of Estherville, Ia, quietly proceeded
to an obnoxious liquor saloon the other eve
ming, and "cleaned it out" thoroughly. For a
block the cutters SWIM with the contents of de-
molished whiskeY barrels
Mile. Marguerite Bellauoer, who acquired
untavOrabe notoriety through her intimacy
with Napoleon ILL.,, has returned to Paris, and
has handsome residence in a fashionable
street.
The dairymen of Washington territory, for
want of tubs and jars, have adopted a method
oil putting up butter in muslin sacks made in
such form that the package when complete is
a cylinder three or four inches in diameter and
from half foot to foot in length.
EsIhe Cleveland saloon keepers secure the pho
tographs of men whose wives do not permit
them 10 drink, and keep galleries of them. When
a customer enters, the barkeeper looks through
his album and sees whether or not the custom.
eTS face is good.
Mr. Storey of the Chicago Times says that his
paper has made more money in three months
since the fire than in any one year previous
lie expects to cover his losses in two years and
have better building than he lost
An immense bed of pure saltpeter has been
discovered near the base of the Cordilleras In
some places it is ten feet thick and there is said
TO be enough for all the requirements of COM
merce and manufacture for 1909 years at the
present rate Of consumption.
DR.. y. had feast, and among other things
and very unprOieSsional, seeing it is made of en-.
larged and diseased liverS pate de ioie oras
day or two after, when he wished to order
something for lunch, the cook mildly suggested:
Yes, sir, there is almost the whole of that
paddy photograph that you had the other day."
A Franklin (!nd.l paper says; The woods are
sWarmlng with wild pigeons, and spOrtsmen have
been and are bringing them down by the hun
dred. The roost is Just down south of our CITY
in the edge of johnson, and is said to extend
over eight miles of woods. In the evening,
when the birds begin to return from their Jour
ney OF the day for STAY over night, the air is
| filled with them for considerable time. AT the
roost men and boys kill them with clubs, 10 save
| ammunition.
A Paris banker lately became lunatic He
| imagined hims It magnet. few days ago
| While in his office, talking very nationally with
| his wife and daughter, he suddenly jumped up
exclaiming, 81 am attracted" and dashed him.
| self head foremost against a large lion safe
| Unfortunately, he struck the sharp corner split
his head, and died instantly.
| A revolution in glass making has lately taken
place In Finland. Glass has been successfully
| made from a granite called cupakiyi found
was found to contain Silica IA per cent: field.
spar, 10; oxide of iron, 81 lime, alkalies, with
traces OF magnesia, 8,
Some OF the London papers are very severe
| upon the appointment of Lord North6rook as
successor to Lord MAYO in the encouragement
snip OF India. The advertiser says: If ever the
| interests OF the country required special action
IN the east, it is now; and we send out seal
| 1ng-waX Image armed with the stump of a Quill
pen. We should rather see a parochial beadle,
| provided he wore full costume, sent out to
govern India than an economic red.tapist, even
though he had the run Of Downing street in his
| teens.
The Edinburgh Scotsman holds a reputation
for tall talking in Great Britain akin TO that of
the New York Herald in this country recent
article IN 1t says that in case of war with the
United States an army of 600 Canadian vol
| unieers, with Quebec for base, would soon be
able to march from one end of the states to the
other. Moreover, that three months after the
war was declared the Canadian army would find
itself before New York. To all of which the
Montreal Witness, perhaps quite as well acqaint-
| ed with the capacities OF canadian volunteers, !"
| returns g contemptuous sniff, and says the
| Scotsman SHOWS little knowledge of the real
| facts oil the caSe'