Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-09
NIisceIIaneou. Itens.

Under Phoenix park, Dublin, there is said to
| ne a vast deposit of COAL
The Louisville exposition has a lock of hair
six feet long, cut from the head of a Swiss peas
ant girl.
The Swiss Times SAYS that the work upon the
St. Gothard tunnel is being pushed forward
with great energy. The workmen on both
sides are said TO have cut more than 100 feet into
| the rock.
The most prosperous city in the south appears
TO be Charleston. Her exports for the year
ending August 81 were So, 900, four or five
times as much as in 1885,
Texas papers boast that the oysters off
their coast are, without exception, the finest in
the whole world, and predict that the trade in
Texas blYalveS will soon become one of the most
important in the state.
A radesman in Bristol, England, has Just
made monster umbrella for an African chief
1t IS sixty five feet in circumference, the lance
wood ribs being nine feet long and there are
40 yards Of material in it. 1t is covered with
red, blue and white chintz, and takes two men
to expand it.
A resident of Gilrov, Cal, has discovered a
process by which the nicotine may be extracted
from tobacco, giving good native qualities the
tine flavor Of prime Havana brands. 1t has
been found that the soil of California is admir-
ably adapted to the culture of the weed.
Three Chinese have taken out patent in
Paris for the invention of a new telegraphic in
Strument by the aid of which apparatus the
dispatch is transmitted to the receiver as an
exact fac smile of the transmitor's auto
graph.
A Russian paper says that there are 800 ap-
plicants to enter the special courses of medicine
and surgery lately established for females by
the academy of medicine, and only 10 can be
admitted. This is undoubtedly true, as a large
portion of the students at Zurich have been
Russian women
Miners engaged in working valuable claim
in Clear Creek county, COL, situated on the
sid nj IaaHr l.
walton of 1880 fleet, found their progress i'm
peded by irost-even at the great depth of $50
feet the earth and rocks being frozen in a solid
mass together
Virginia boasts of a spring of cold water
which continuously throws out peach stones in
perfect state of preservation. Bushels of stones
have been cleared away, and still they come.
Many years ago there was a distillery at this
spring, and it now bursts through the mass of
stones below the surface and throws them out.
A lame girl, who had not, for fourteen years,
once left the third story back room in which
she lived, was among those who participated in
the late children's excursion to Philadelphia.
When carried to the park she asked what the
grass and trees were, and had to be told the
names OF the most common objects. She lay on
the grass all day, drinking in the air and sun
shine, and was seen 10 weep softly every little
| while from pure JOY.
The Charleston (West Virginia. iCourier says
that there is an old lady living in that state
| nearly a hundred years OLD, VINO mas more than
3S6 descendants. She had IA children herself,
and - Of these had total of SO children, these
again having total of 223 children and grand
| children. One of the old lady's children moved
| to Illinois many years ago and another to
| Texas, consequently it is more than likely that
| the number of her descendants is more than that
given, as they had not been heard from when
the statistics were given. The old lady's name
is Rachel Stanley, and she and her husband are
at present living with their daughter and SON
n-law. They were married in 1892
The central provinces of India reports for
1870 supply the annexed account in regard to
the prevalence of infanticide in that country:
regular village visitation was instituted and evil
dence taken as to the proportion of boys and
girls and some other necessary facts. 0nemag-
istrate reports having visited ninety-nine vii
lagos inhabited by clan whose head is the
| rajah of Amorha. Eighty-six of the villages
were suspected" In seven villages inhabited
by one caste there were 104 boys and only one
girl, and that one girl had probably been saved
! by being brought up in her mothers family,
| altogether apart from her father. The Baboos
l Of Asogpoor had twenty boys and mo girl has
] ever been married from among them" In ten
villages Of another caste there was not one girl,
I and in another ten "a marriage of a girl is an
| unknown ceremony" Nearly all the families
I Of the Baboos and koours practice the crime,
| with the exception OF the Koours of Luckmun.