Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-24

A majority of the rolling mills in the vicinity
of Pttsburg have temporarily suspended opera
tons on account of the extreme heat.
The Mount Gents tunnel has been blocked by
a fall of stone from the mountain: but the traffic
is still carried on by transferring passengers
from one train TO another.
They say that the Wabash river is SO low
that the fish are compelled to stand on their
heads to get water sufficient to moisten their
gillS. The inhabitants walk up and down the
river bed and pull fish as they do onions.
The following is now common in Illinois pa
perS: "NOtice-All women who do not wish their
husbands TO frequent my house for the purpose
of drinking, will oblige me BY leaving note at
the post office, box So. (Signed) -.
In recent debate member of the California
legislature exclaimed: "The honorable gentle
man from Calaveras county is undoubtedly
person of great abities-a man of talent-a
natural born genius; but there is one thing |
defy him to; and that, to bite the bottom out
of frying pan without shutting his noseF
An old agricultural laborer in England tried
singular method of evangellzing his family.
Being demonstrated with by the pastor for not
"bringing up" his boys as he should, he replied,
81 dunno ow It's, sir; | order EN- down to pray,
night and nioruin', aud when they won't 90
down, knocks 'em down-and yet they amt
good!"
The representatives of the leading railways of
Great Britain, have resolved, Ill view of the
greatly increased cost of working the railways,
10 raise the passenger fares as well as the rates
for the conveyance Of goods and minerals, on
the 1st of September, making at the same time
general classification of goods for through
traffic on all the railways.
An original portrait Of the poet Milton, by
Cooper, taken while he was at Cambridge, and
said to lie the only authentic likeness of him at
that period OF his life, has just come into the
possession of Mr. Graves ofPall Mall. TIE Por-
trait has been in private collection for the last
sixty years.
Baron Plat once, when visiting penal nsti-
tuition, inspected tic tread mill with the rest,
and, being practically disposed, the learned
Judge trusted himself on the tread mill, desiring
the warden TO set it in motion. The machine
was accordingly adjusted and his ordship be-
gan to lift his feet. in a few minutes, however,
he had enough of it, ana called 70 he released;
| but this was not SO easy. please, my lord,
said the man, ''you can't get off. It's set for
twenty minutes, and that's the shortest time we
| can make it &C" and so the judge was in dur
| ance until his term" had expired.
A method of printing from photographs
| adopted in Prussia consists in the employment
of a sensitive film oil gedtine containing
bichromate of potash. This film is spread pom
| thick glass, and, after exposure in the camera
in the usual way, the Photographic image is
| fixed by liquid ammonia. The picture is in
visible until the mixing roller has passed over
| the glass plate, which may be printed from in
much the same way as a photographic stone
| About five thousand impressions have been
taken from glass plate PREPARED in this way
| the plate being IN all cases Strong etougl to bt
| capable of being passed through the press with
| out injury. The process has been adopted al
| Krupp's works at Essen.
| The prior of the Dominican Monastery of Vo
| reppe, in France, recently received the following
| telegram "Father ligier is dead lest mort; We
| shall arrive by train tomorrow at three.-LdbO-
rec" The eccleSiastic, being convinced that the
| dead man, who was highly esteemed in thai
place, had selected it for his last resting place
made every preparation. A grave was dug,
| hearSe provided, and, with the monks, a sorrow
| ing crowd waited at the station for the train. L
| arrived, and, to the aStonishment of every one
the supposed corpse alighted, well and hearty
| The matter was soon explained. The reverend
| father, returning from a visit to Bone, where
| he had been accompanied by the priest baboree
| stopped to visit some monks at Saint-Jean.de
| Maurienne, and requested his companion TO tel
| egraph the return to his monastery. The mes
sage sent was: Father Ligier and Get moi
will arrive" etc The clerks inadvertently
| changed the Ell moi into est mort with what re
| suit has already been told
A peculiar prisoner, uncommony difficultstC
| deal with, was recently put to bar in one Of the
| London police courts. He was "middle age(
man" to begin with "of a very low cast Of
countenance," charged with stealing -eS from
| the purse of the proSecutrx, with whom hC
| lodged, and who testified that she had from thC
| first suspected him, Though she knew he sale
his prayers" 1t appeared further that he was
Polish Jew, was deafand dumb, and unable II
read or write He could have been examined
through the medium of the digatoral alphabet
| only it was discovered to be useless when trans
lated Into the Polish Hebraic language. Things
| were thus at dead lock- There was only one
man in London who could interpret Polish
Hebrew, a Mr.. Van Praagh, and as ''the diff
| culties in the way of going on with the case
were unprecedented" it was continued until the
| learned Mr. Van Praagh could be sent for