Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-20

Romeo was Sell-made elephant, lie came
to this country without Il dollar in his trunk
took Greeley's advice, went west and died last
Friday worth $4,000.
Brazians feel very happy over the removal
by congress of the duty on coffee, one journal
claiming that twill add $40, 200, 900 TO their an
nual profits.
San Francisco journal wants the education.
al authorities of that city to provide for general
instruction in the Chinese and Japanese lam
guages, saying that certain knowledge OF the
Mongoian languages Is absolutely necessary in
a mercantile community having such intimate
relations with the Oriental countries as that of
San Francisco.
The world will be deeply panied to learn that
an ostrich in the London geological gardens died
lately, as is alleged, from eating TOO many half
pence given HIM by liberal youngsters. The
fact that an entire copy OF the Daily Telegraph
was found in its stomach, with all its fiue writ.
lug and extraordinary intelligence uudigested,
leads to some doubt, however, as to whether
death ensued from rich living or from litera-
ture.
The hall in which the Geneva court of arb-
trauon meets is described as an ordinary draw
ing room, the win61w looking out on neat
little garden In the very centre Of the city. The
room is elegantly decorated with upholstery in
red, black, gold and pure white. The ante
room through which the commissioners and
secretaries enter the hall of congress is called
the marriage chamber, and was regarded as
significant OF the approach Of happy union be-
tween two great nations, though the crcum
stance is suggestive of another omen, which an
opponent of the treaty is happy to adopt,
namely, that the passage from the marriage
chamber to the court is ominouS rather of di-
v0rce than of happy union.
new process of making paper from lake
sedge has been invented by s. ID. Baldwin, of
Marysvilie, California. Alter experimenting u
number oil years with this material, he has sue
pppNpd fin mil,
bic ofoeing made into the best quality of writ
Ing and printing paper. This species of Scirpus
is abundant in the shoal wafer of rivers and
bays in the northern states, from the Pacific to
the Atlantic, growing in greatest luxuriance in
the great lakes and St Lawrence river. BY en-
plying stems cut in June, fifty TO sixty per
cent of pulp has been obtained, as fine and
strong as that from Sea Island cotton.
great variety Of experiments show its value as
a SerViceable and economical paper stock, and
Indicate that it is destined to come into general
use.
The system of packing telegraph messages
IS exciting some attention abroad. The method,
as recently explained, is bv means of a pre-
arranged cipher code. All messages are sent to
the Economic telegram company and are sent
IN a lump by that company 10 it's agent at
another Office, where they are deciphered and
delivered. The sender gains if he has message
OF less than ten words to transmit. The gov
eminent telegraph department in England has
given notice that it can and will prohibit the
system of packing messages and intimateS that
unless the company voluntarily retireS from
business rates will be so arranged as to destroy
that business. The Economic telegram com
pany is saucy and practically dehes the govern
ment 10 do its worst.
A diamond.tOOthed saw for stone 1uarries has
been invented in Vermont and, after three
years experimenting, is said to have been per-
iectcd so far as to work very satisfactorily The
fRATupns of froin f,f oil
with diamond points moving back and forth
through the stone, with drills working vertically
to free the ends of the kerf. The diamonds en-
ploved are OF the black variety, on halfiuch
width, and with a six horse power. engine can
be sunk IN the solid quarry from six to twenty
l0ur inches per hour, according to the hardness
of the material 0peratedupon The instrument
Is very compact, and one OF the power displayed
can be operated by two men, whose services, to-
gether with the fuel consumed, will amount to
less than ten dollars day, etfeeting an esti-
mated saving OF the labor Of fifty men, and re-
ducing the cost of solid building material one.
half
A French inventor has patented an apparatus
Tor swimming. For the hands he has a large
membranouS fin, which is held in its place by
loops passing over the fngures and Il strap
around the wrist. The surface presented to the
water by these inns is so large as to add greatly
to the effectiveness of the strokes of the arm,
but not SO large as to exhaust the muscular
power Their effect is to reduce very much the
effort required to swim without them But the
greatest ingenuity is displayed in the form and
fitness of the fins for the legs, which are at
tached to the ankles, and are so formed that
they act upon the water, both in the movement
OF bringing the legs together and throwing them
back. They act so finely in "treadng water"
as swimmers call it, that one can really walk if
not on the water, at least in it. The difference
between swimming with this apparatus and with
out it, is very much like the difference in rowing
boat with the handle and the blade of an oar
The old swimmer has no trouble in using the
fins at first trial, and is surprised to find with
what ease he can swim without exhaustion He
easily swims twice as fast with the apparatus AS
without, and he can sustain himself for hours
upon the water, or swim miles with it,
Abbott will sell real estate for Trask Ewings
on the old road from Quinsigamond to Millbury.
this forenoon at 90 O'Clock.
Abbott will sell w. Ii. Wheeler's farm in Sutton