The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-02-11
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Law OF PATENTS. The Supreme Court of
the w. States, in a case relating to the infringe
ment of a Patent Right for an invention. re-
Gently decided that if an inventor suffers his
invention to go into public use, or sells the
thing invented for public use before he applies
TOR patent, he abandons his invention, and he
is disabled from obtaining patent under the
patent act of 1898.
WEBsTER's DIcTIoSARY The N. Y. Journal
OF Commerce says the edition of this great work
was SOoo copies for this country, and 500 copies
intended for Europe. The patronage has been
so great on this side of the Atlantic that nearly
all the 2oO0 copies are taken up. and none re-
main for the English market $500 copies at
$50. the subscription price, amount to $4,000
dollars.
HORNED FROGS. One of these curious ami
mails, taken in the Arkansas prairies, has arriv-
ed safely at Washington, and is to be TRANSPORT
ed to DR.. Mitchell of New York. It was
brought to Washington in a travelling trunk
IN torpid state; and although it had taken no
sustenance for seven months, it was soon re-
stored by the warm rays of the sun, SO as to
run about the room.
Jean Bosquet, aged 1O4, lately died at Cinte
gabelle (France) He was a qceU-digger. and
had subsisted by the labor of his hands I'D to
his 102d year.
New PAPER. A paper is to be published in
the town of Morristown, (Vt) entitled " The
Green Mountain Forest Requiem, to be devoted
to sound religion, strict morality agriculture.
and the memory Of the dead''
FORCE OF CONSCIENCE. Three men who
robbed and murdered Mr.. Galloway, near Phil
adelphia, have been detected in the following
manner: Conversation occurring upon this
crime in group of persons one of them an.
peared unusually attentive, excited. and en-
barrassed Suspicion was raised he was seiz
ed, confessed, and betrayed his accomplices.
A dwarf, said to be native of Mexico. only
30 inches high, and 81 years of age, is exhibit
ing at so cents sight, in Augusta, (Georgia.)
Among his performances are dancing, sword
and gun exercise, &c.
PURlFIcATIoN FROM SIN BY SorEEz1NG-
Multtudes of Pilgrims annually visit Malabar
Point, near Bombay, for the sole purpose of
squeezing themselves through a narrow cleft
IN the rock, apparently not wide enough to re-
ceive the body of child, as a sure way of
squeezing out their sins.
LONGEVITY There is at present residing at
st. Colbert (Canada) woman of the name of
Courtois, of the extraordinary age of ll2 She
possesses all her faculties and is very converse
BILE. Her daughter is the great grandmother
of child years old,
The N. Y. Evening Post states that Col.
Pickering had been for nearly or quite wear
| engaged in writing work of deep interest to
the people of this country, the life of Hamilton.
The Parliament of Great Britain have passed
law declaring that an endorsement of partial
payment on bill or note shall not be consider.
ed renewal of the same $50 as to take it out
of the statue of limitation"
A late census of the city of Troy, Rennssel-
aer county, IN. W on the Hudson, nearly op.
posite Albany, represents the population at
l1,ll2; males 5295, females 5545, colored peo-
pie 272. In 1925 the population was 1879
Another Factory BURNT. The Byram
Cotton Factory, situated about 80 miles from
N York, was destroyed by fire on Friday morn.
ing, Jan. so, together with a considerable stock
of cotton, and some manufactured goods. This
was an extensive establishment, owned by sew.
eral individuals of n Y, and it is said to have
cost about $4,000. 1t is understood the prop
erty was partly insured
FAMILY HoNoRs. On the 10Th Jan, Joseph
Gales, Senior, editor of paper in Raleigh IN.
CO was reelected Mayor of that city, and Jo-
seph Gales, Junior, son of the above named
! gentleman, and editor of the National Intei-
gencer, has been reelected Mayor of the city
Of Washington.
| CURIous COINCIDENCE. Two ladies', named
| Pigeon and Lark, were charged with stealing
three fowls from man named aUiaru The
into the custody of constable named Parrot,
who brought them to the office, from which
they were consigned TO the cage
MaeolesSeld (Eng) Courier.