Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-11-04
FOR CONGRESS.
DIsrRrcr No. e--ALExANDER DEWITT, Of Oxford.

DISTRICT No. e--ALEXANDER DEWITT, Of Oxford.
For County CommissiOner,--oTTs ADAMS, of Grafton
A STRING OF LITERARY PEARLS FROM THE
WORCESTER TRANscRIPT OF THE Sd NsT.-It
is recorded, in the pages of history, that "Ayi-
cenna and Licetus read Aristotle's metaphysics
forty times through piece, and never under
stood single word" The effect upon both
of those learned pundits was, however, ex-
tremely remarkable. "Avicenna turned out a
desperate writer of all kinds of writng-he
wrote books dc omni scrtbih; while the
mere title ofone of Licetus's books was as long
as the lance of Don Quixote. 1t seems to us
that the learned editor of the Worcester Tran
script, Silas, has pursued his English studies
with as marked success as did Avicenna and
Iicetus pursue their studies of the peripatetic
philosophy. He does not seem to have reap
ed any advantage from his severe mental dis
cipline, except the cGcoethes scri6endj. He
writes; and, in the words of Coleridge's own
epigram upon the "Ancient Mariner" his
writings are eternal, for, those who read them
read them to no end.
We have been impelled to make these feeble
illusions to our illustrious contemporary, by read
ing the q organ" of the Sd inst. That paper
sparkled so gloriouslywith the usual funny,ab
surd, stupid, confused, and nonsensical ema-
nations of our illustrious neighbor, that we
felt COM PEELED to introduce few of them 70
our readers, SO that they, too, might laugh at
them. The Transcript says that General Will
son declines, (the Republican nomination.
and the autocratic poaoers that congregate at
50 Washington st." won't let him decline
Again it says "GU the votes of the Washing
ton st. altocracy." Now, will the Transcript
please tell us hon many it takes to make all
an GWtocrdcyf
The Transcript commences an article on
=" Clerical and Monetary" in the following
brilliant style;
Z" In country like ours, having no long
accumulated fortunes descending from one
generation to another, most men are happily
conditioned SO that they must ''earn their
bread by the sweat Of their brow"
After discussing some question of monetary
ethics, the Transcript says:
owe believe that laborer is worthy of
his hire and cannot assent to that doctrine
We do not see the connection between a la
borer being worthy of his hire and his being
unable to assent to ''that doctrine - but, of
course, the Transcript does, and that is
enough.
The following single sentence is what Tony
Lumpkin calls confederation accordingly
The individual who got rid of it ought to feel
as comfortably as if he had evomited snake
Not only the scenery, but the acting was
peculiarly life-like and real; particularly in
the storm scene of the last act, where " Sir
Thomas" and the love lost " Adm" enraged
at the apparent want of enthusiasm on the
part of their more unruly subjects, besought
in tones Of the most plying anguish, recital
of the " Story of their wrongs, their many
trials, battles and sieges, till eight or ten of
their more devoted celestials rushing in, foil
ed in their attempt to take the prisoner from
the hands of the magistrate, endeavor by min
gled outcries of demoniac hate, frenzy and de-
spair, to reclaim 1.-THE of their yirginity, so
unwisely and foolishly lost in the rear: the
unfortunate mans escape from these blood
thirsty 1itans, accompanied by SO much of
the lovely in its nature the concealed wea-
pons thrown so remorselessly at the heads of
him and his protectors; then the deep calm
which oerspread the countenances of those
immortal gladiators, as the poor, painting cap
tive was seen vending or rather flying his
homeward journey, far away from the scenes
of this ETHEREAL world all, presented to the
eye of the beholder an exhibition of strange
interest, filed with the rare beauties of " hui
man nature" not unmingled with a deep
sense Of /" Patriarchal" ave."
The man who can tell the meaning of the
above tissue of words is able to solve the
riddle Of the Sphynx.
In its news items the Transcript tells us
that "The Essex County Wing Convention
nominated, Wednesday, for Senator'S" We
hope Wednesday will be elected We are told
also that g young man named Daniel Cleary
fell from the tower Of the Catholic Church, in
Roxbury on Monday, striking the roof a dis
lance of forty feet If that was not long
stroke we should like to know what it was.
But we must close our space would fail us,
if we attempted to reprint all the stupidities Of
the " orean' .