Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-15


The medical faculty Of Moscow, Russia, look
| with lavor on female physicians, and has re-
solved to admit them to the educational courses
and lectures of the university, and TO the privi-
lege Of following all the labors of the medico
chirurgiCai academy.
An English gentleman has leased water lot
in Pilatka, Fla, for ten years. with the design of
putting up moss and paper factory. The moss
VIII be manipulated into such things as hair
cloth, &c. The paper-mill is intended to manu-
iacture paper out of the common saw palmetto.
Paper made OF this material is now used by the
| bank of England for bank notes.
In view Of the numberless applications for
| Virginia militia cOlonelcies, the Richmond En-
| quirer satircallv suggests that if the general
| assembly had incorporated in the tax bill pro-
| VISION making commissions in the state militia
| salaOle, and charged moderate price therefor,
they could have raised money enough to pay off
| the public debt in about three weeks.
Inc explosion of locomotive in motion is a
very rare thing, but such case happened on
the track OF the Michigan Central, as the engine
was leaving Chicago Il. few days ago The en-
glneer was surprised by a report sudden cloud
OF binding steam and the stopping of his engine.
On getting off and looking at his machine he
found that full section of the boiler, three feet
long, had disappeared. 1t was subsequently found
600 feet away, turned completely inside out,
making a complete cylinder with the old inside
out. The boiler was built in 1857.
We infer that spring is opening in St Paul
and that il has its dIscOmiOrts, as other seasons
from the following paragraphs in the Press of
that city seventh street capitalists are discuss
ing the practCability of running a canal boat
along their thoroughiare Sea-sickness is the
drawback to street navigation at present.
NOrkmen were engaged yesterday in eXcay-
ating the iire-plugs from the compost heaps in
which some OF them have been bedded during
the past winter. None of them have sprouted."
In the publications of the acclimatiZation So
CletN OF Palermo. informed that ro1iebne
may be obtained at any season, and very quickly,
IN the following manner The seeds are to be
first soaked twenty-iour hours, and then placed
in bags and exposed to the sun. They will be-
gin TO terminate in about twenty-lour hours,
and are then to be set in box filled with well
MANFRED earth, and moistencd from time to
time with lukewarm water. In five or six days
the radshes will attain the size of small onion
10 grow radsheS in the winter the box is TO be
placed in warm cellar, covered with top, and
the earth mostened from day to day with luke
warm water.
Dr. Benz. Godfrey has written a book on the
Diseases of the Hair" He saws that woman's
hair may grow to the length of six feet, and that
a young lady of Massachusetts refused a thou
sand dollars for her "cranial covering which
was only one inch short of this measurement"
-Four hundred hairs of average thickness would
cover an inch OF space. The blonde belle has
about one hundred and forty thousand flaments
TO comb and brush, while the red haired beauty
has to be satisfied with eighty eight thousand;
the brown haired damsel NAV have one hundred
and nine thousand the black haired but one
hundred and two thousand Few ladies con-
slider that they carry some forty or fifty miles of
hair on their head; the fair haired may even
have 70 dress seventy miles of threads of gold
every morning. A German eXpermentalist has
proved thar a single hair will suspend four
ounces without breaking, stretching under the
process and contracting again. But the hair
thus heavily weighted must be dark brown, ioi
the blonde breaks down under two and a half
ounces.
The Rondout Freeman says that very re-
spectacle young lady of Saugertics, N Y, has
had her reason completely restored lately, as
tue following incident shows: She discovered
in some paper an advertisement purporting to
have come from highly Tespectable--worthy
and handsome, of course-Christian Young
man, desiring some young lady to correspond
with him, probably with Il view directed toward
matrimony. Now, as she was a plain country
lass, although her folks were well-to-do people,
she was by no means one who should "waste
her sweetness on the desert air" so she cOnclud-
ed TO answer. In due time a reply came, and as
time passed on the letters became
more and more aflectonate At last
affairs came to crisis, aud the young gallant
was invited to come and see her. lie did come
But alas for her hopes and laces of delight
he came home dead-drunk. But the Joke of il
was. he bad to 90 two or three miles out of the
village, and every house he went to he inquired
il Miss -- lived there. Being very tight, he
would generally state the object of his visit to
her. and would read her last letter and then pass
on 10 the next house. He made out to arrive at
her honse at ten O'Clock at night. The old
folks were absent; but two sisters were there
The meeting can better be imagined than de-
scribed; suffice it to say that the correspondence
has ceased.
The Salt Lake Tribune, commenting upon the
efforts to make Utah state, casts severe re6ec.
tons upon the calculations OF the census takers
A population Of about 10000 is necessary to
entite the territory constitutionally TO such
change. The population at the time of the
census Of 1870 was only about $1,000, so that
within two years there must have been a
growth OF about 10000, or the plan will fall
through by the provisions Of the law. This in.
crease the Tribune says, was secured by counting
horses and mules as inhabitants, as well as men,
women and children; and by counting largely
also, upon probable increase of families. In
this way success accompanies the footsteps o.
these matheInatcians who are credited with
more knowledge Of arithmetic than of natural
history. The increase Of Salt Lake City is put
at 6i75 for year and half past, Of which the
paper says: Assuming that one-half Of this
number could have been crowded into houses
already occupied which we doubt very much,
aud allowing ten persons to a house, there would
have been erected over 800 additional dwellings,
which VIC all know has NOT been done; so that
THIS little calculation somewhat impeaches The
truth OF the new census, which is being made
Tor tue special purpose OF the kingdom 80 as to